background: toxoplasmosis is a zoonotic disease which occurs mostly through ingestion of tissue cysts or oocyst excreted by infected cats. this study was conducted to determine the sero-prevalence of toxoplasmosis in two migrating lore and khamseh tribes in southern iran living in tents with their domestic animals. materials and methods: during 2010, using cluster random sampling method, 357 bl...

The study is based on the scientific idea of need to organize education children indigenous peoples North, Siberia and Far East Russia, leading a nomadic lifestyle with their parents. Globalization processes taking place in world pose new challenges for Russia. Accordingly, analysis practice places natural residence habitual economic activity Russia becomes relevant. authors, into account histo...

Observations among nomads suggest there is a strong ecological interdependence of diet and disease in tribal societies which favors survival of man. This relationship may be disrupted by changes in diet to conform to the highly productive technology of the West. Such changes may result in intensification of indigenous disease and in the transfer of disease characteristics of Western societies. ...

The CoABS Grid arguably provides the most successful and widely used infrastructure for the large-scale integration of heterogeneous agent frameworks with object-based applications, and legacy systems. In this paper we describe how we are extending Grid capabilities by integrating the NOMADS agent environment for strong mobility and safe execution and the KAoS framework for policy-based managem...

BACKGROUND An understanding of the febrile illness experience of Nigerian nomadic Fulani is necessary for developing an appropriate strategy for extending malaria intervention services to them. An exploratory study of their malaria illness experience was carried out in Northern Nigeria preparatory to promoting malaria intervention among them. METHODS Ethnographic tools including interviews, g...