Jilin Province is one of the principal production bases of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) in China with its typical preponderance in TCM resources, research and development power, and industrialization capacity. The province has 2,790 species of TCM materials in total. Over 20% of the TCM materials in common use are from Jilin Province. The province has established 36 good agricultural prac...

The southern African species of the water beetle genus Limnebius Leach, 1815, are revised. Eleven new species are described, based on the examination and databasing of 6,201 specimens from 96 localities/events. Male genitalia are illustrated, and high resolution habitus images of the holotypes are provided. Distribution maps are provided for the eleven species now known from southern Africa, in...

in the present study karyotype of mazani river buffalo was studied in comparison with those of azeri buffalo populations from iran. blood samples were taken from ten (5 males and 5 females) mazani buffaloes and thirty (15 males and 15 females) azeri buffaloes. the mazani buffaloes belong to mazendaran province and azeri buffaloes belong to west and east azerbaijan and ardebil provinces. blood l...

background: this study aimed to determine neonatal nurses’ perceptions of knowledge and practice in pain management in nicus & neonatal units. methods: a cross-sectional descriptive study design was used. a total of 120 neonatal nurses who working in nicus & neonatal units in ardebil province, iran were selected using the convenience sampling technique. a questionnaire of nurses’ perceptions of...

soil characteristics is very important in water erosion processes. the present investigation was conducted in gully lands of ardebil province, iran, to assess the role of soil texture and structure on aggregate stability using wet sieve method. to achieve the study purposes, mean weighted diameter of aggregates was calculated, and its relationships with lime and clay percentages, sodium absorpt...

1 Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Disease, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical College, Guangzhou 510182, Guangdong Province, P.R. China; 2 Department of Respiratory Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou 510630, Guangdong Province, P.R. China; 3 Department of Respiratory Disease of the First Municipal Hospital of Shaoguan, 512000, Guangdong Pro...

BACKGROUND The objectives of this study were to estimate the prevalence of thalassemia and to analyze the need for public health services for migrant populations in different cities in Guangdong Province, China. METHODS A cross-sectional survey was conducted in 21 cities of Guangdong Province. Twenty-three types of a- and β-globin gene mutations were detected in a total of 14,230 pregnant wom...

the goal of this research was to isolate and identify the thermostable alkaline protease producing bacteria among several native iranian microorganisms. at the end of screening program, a bacillus subtilis bp-36 strain producing thermophilic alkaline protease was isolated from a hot spring in ardebil province. the target enzyme was purified using a one-step aqueous two-phase systems (atps) prot...

Here for the first time the presence of the trapdoor spider genus Conothele Thorell, 1878 (Araneae: Ctenizidae) is reported from mainland China and Laos. Four Conothele species collected from the regions are described as new to science, based on the female genital morphology: Conothele baiyunensis Xu, Xu & Liu, sp. n. (Guangdong Province), Conothele daxinensis Xu, Xu & Li, sp. n. (Guangxi Provi...