Since becoming editor of AMR, I have tried to ment? and (c) What factors are considered in find a simple way to communicate the necesjudging conceptual papers? The first section desary ingredients of a theoretical contribution. scribes the constituent elements of a theory. The There are several excellent treatises on the subsecond section uses this framework to establish j ect, but they typical...

Petroleum hydrocarbons are important energy resources used by industry and in our daily life, whose production contributes highly to environmental pollution. To control such risk, bioremediation constitutes an environmentally friendly alternative technology that has been established and applied. It constitutes the primary mechanism for the elimination of hydrocarbons from contaminated sites by ...

Adult females of the blacklegged tick, Ixodes scapularis (Acari: Ixodidae), were collected from a North American porcupine, Erethizon dorsatum, in eastern Ontario, Canada. This porcupine parasitism indicates that an established population I. is present local vicinity. tick species known to parasitize more than 150 different vertebrate hosts, including porcupine. The presence ticks parasitizing ...