the aim of this study was investigating the characteristic and outcome of self-immolation cases admitted to the burn centre of birjand, iran over an eight year period. this study is a retrospective review of case notes for patients with self-immolation and admitted to our referral burn centre in the last 8 years (january 2003-january 2011). a performa was designed to collect the data such as: d...

in an attempt to characterize theileria parva parasites circulating in south sudan cattle , polymerase chain reaction (pcr)-based assays were carried out using four single copy encoding antigen genes p104, pim, p150 and p67 in addition to one microsatellite ms321. a total of 20 bovine dna samples from two locations in south sudan were included in this study, in addition to two references strain...

Geoid anomalies over the Pacific plate show lineated undulations approximately oriented in the direction of absolute plate motion. Conventional spectral analyses have revealed a broad range of dominant wavelengths, but as filtering is direction-dependent, results are difficult to interpret. Here, we present a new approach designed to quantify the correlation between the geoid undulations and Pa...

a Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Natural Resources and Environment (NRE), Earth Observation Group, P.O. Box 395, Pretoria 0001, South Africa b Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution for Science, 260 Panama Street, Stanford, CA 94305, USA c RIT: Center for Imaging Science, Digital Imaging and Remote Sensing Group, 54 Lomb Memorial Drive, Building 76‐3124, Roch...

This paper presents an analysis of an Environment Justice (EJ) program adopted by the South Coast Air Quality Management District (AQMD) as a part of its regulation to phase out a toxic chemical used by dry cleaners. AQMD has provided financial incentives to switch early, and establishments in EJ neighborhoods are given priority. Despite this pro-EJ policy, an analysis of available data shows t...

In order to establish an endomycorrhizal symbiosis on micropropagated plants and to evaluate its effect on plant growth and survival, three rootstocks belonging to the Prunus genus were used: M51 (P. dulcis), GF677 (P. persica×P. dulcis) and cv Citation (P. domestica×P. persica). The plants were micropropagated and in vitro rooted. Spores of Glomus mosseae (LMSS) and Scutellospora calospora (SC...

Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum launched a process that could ultimately produce the largest single act of trade liberalization in history. They agreed to " seriously consider " negotiating a Free Trade Area of the Asia Pacific (FTAAP) and instructed their officials to " undertake further studies on ways and means to promote " the initiative so that they could address it at their...

In 2007, the editorial home of the Asia Pacific Journal of Management will be leaving Asia for the first time—in fact leaving its founding school, the National University of Singapore (NUS), for the first time. Founded in 1983, APJM is the oldest and most prominent academic journal in the management field that is in Asia, on Asia, and of Asia. The move out of Asia is significant, because it una...

As the number of space debris on earth’s orbit increases steadily, the need to survey, track and catalogue them becomes of key importance. In this context, CNES has been using the TAROT Telescopes (Rapid Telescopes for Transient Objects owned and operated by CNRS) for several years to conduct studies about space surveillance and tracking. Today, two testbeds of services using the TAROT telescop...