The Screwworm Eradication Program has been extremely successful in its efforts to achieve its goal of eradication of screwworms through Central America and establishment of a permanent biological barrier in the eastern half of Panama. Following eradication of screwworms from Mexico in 1991, eradication was achieved in Belize in 1992, in Guatemala in 1993, and in El Salvador in 1994. Honduras ha...

A key to 23 species of Neotropical Lucilia, including six new species is given. Information is provided on all known Lucilia species found in the region, including the West Indies, Galápagos Islands, and Central and South America. The following six new species are described based on the examination of over 2700 adult specimens from Central and South America: Lucilia albofusca sp. nov. from sout...

wilson disease is a metabolic disorder with an autosomal recessive genetic pattern and occurs in 1-4 of every 100000 individuals. inactivation of the atp7b gene leads to accumulation of the toxic copper to liver and brain causing hepatic and neurological complication. therefore, most patients suffer from chronic hepatic inflammation and central nervous system disorder. nowadays, up to 500 mutat...

Using Du Bois’s “Double Consciousness” and Fanon’s “Colonized Intellectual”, we contend that Borges’s essay “The Nothingness of Personality” can be deemed postcolonial. Our study turns to the postcolonial world of Latin America, with a special focus on Buenos Aires, addressing the alienation, hybridity, “two-ness”, and the othered state of Borges as an immigrant to Latin America after the World...