This volume contains 25 articles covering a wide array of subjects, reflecting the breadth scholarship one today’s leading experts in field Frisian Studies. The articles, written mostly English and German, encompass temporal range from Old to Modern geographical West Netherlands Sater North Germany, include Low German. Some initiate new fields enquiry, e.g. uncharted areas dialectology, others ...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study of maternal deaths through FOGSI members is to see its current STATUS. METHOD A three-year retrospective observational study from January 2005 to December 2007 formed the basis for collection of the data for analysis. RESULTS A wide variation of maternal mortality ratio (MMR) in the five zones (West-342; South-229; East-709; North East-709 and North-814) was ...

Placement is important in VLSI physical design as it determines the time-to-market and chip’s reliability. In this paper, a new floorplan representation which couples with Ant System, namely Corner Insertion Sequence (CIS) is proposed. Though CIS’s search complexity is smaller than the state-ofthe-art representation Corner Sequence (CS), CIS adopts a preset boundary on the placement and hence, ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Diarrhea is one of the most prevalent diseases in the world, specially in developing countries. One of the most important causative agents of bacterial diarrhea is diarrheagenic Escherichia coli (DEC) which causes gastroenteritis and this group involving enterotoxigenic E. coli (ETEC), enteropathogenic E. coli (EPEC), enteroaggregative E. coli (EAEC), enterohemoragic E...

The occurrence of antibody of myxoma virus in wild rabbits following epizootics is highest in the semi-arid north-west of Victoria and lowest in temperate southern Victoria. Occurrence ranges up to about 90% in the north-west and to about 70% in the south except on the Western Plains where epizootics are rare and antibody occurrence seldom exceeds 30%. The establishment of the European rabbit f...