OBJECTIVE To describe injection practices worldwide in terms of frequency and safety. DESIGN Literature review. The global burden of disease project of the World Health Organization defined 14 regions on the basis of geography and mortality patterns. Data sources included published studies and unpublished WHO reports. Studies were reviewed by using a standardised decision making algorithm to ...

This study was carried out during 2002-2005 in the east Mediterranean region of Turkey (in Kahramanmaras province), at the experimental field of Agricultural Faculty of Kahramanmaras Sutcu Imam University. Four naturally coloured cotton lines (light brown, dark brown, cream and green) (G. hirsutum L.) brought from Azerbaijan National Academy, Genetic Resources Institute and white linted cotton ...

The aphids, aphid parasitoids, and hyperparasitoids found in citrus orchards, the parasitoids' and hyperparasitoids' seasonal abundance, and the plant-aphid-parasitoid relationships in Hatay, Osmaniye, Adana, and Mersin provinces of the east Mediterranean region of Turkey are presented in the present 2-yr study. Aphidius colemani Viereck, Binodoxys angelicae (Haliday), and Lysiphlebus confusus ...

LETTER TO ETITOR G6PD (Glucose-6-Phosphate Dehydrogenase) enzyme deficiency is the most common inherited enzyme deficiency so far reported. 1 This enzyme deficiency affects 400 million people worldwide. 2 Most cases of the disease are from tropical regions of Africa, the Middle East, tropical and subtropical regions of Asia and the Mediterranean margin, arise from the process of natural selecti...

Background. Calomera littoralis is a Palearctic species, widely distributed in Europe; inhabiting predominantly its Atlantic, Mediterranean and Black Sea coastlines. Methods. Its phylogeography on the Balkan Peninsula and on the north-western Black Sea coast was inferred using a 697 bp long portion of the mitochondrial COI gene, amplified from 169 individuals collected on 43 localities. Results...

The present study deals with the presence of Diopatramarocensis in the eastern Mediterranean. This species is small-sized and inhabited muddy bottom near the opening of rivers or lagoons [salinity range: 33-39‰] in the Aegean and Levantine Seas, and reached a maximum density of 90 ind.m(-2) in Mersin Bay. This species might be an alien species that was introduced from the East Atlantic (near Gi...

The East Mediterranean species of Orthomus Chaudoir, 1838 are revised. The type series of Feronia longula Reiche & Saulcy, 1855, F. berytensis Reiche & Saulcy, 1855, F. proelonga Reiche & Saulcy, 1855, Orthomus longior Chaudoir, 1873, O. sidonicus Chaudoir, 1873, and O. berytensis akbensis Mateu, 1955 were studied and lectotypes for the first four are designated. Also, the following nomenclatur...

The prevailing opinion is that women of the Mediterranean cultural area occupied a second rate position in society. Excluded from activities in public life, on the whole they were pushed aside to devote themselves to activities in their homes. Fernand Braudel considers, moreover, that the evident attachment of women of the Mediterranean area to their households, is a civilisation-fact of partic...