A checklist of soldier flies species recorded from the North African countries of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, and Egypt is based on both literature records and material newly collected in Morocco. Four subfamilies (Stratiomyinae, Sarginae, Nemotelinae, and Pachygasterinae), and twelve species from five genera have been collected and are recognized in Morocco. Pachygaster atra (Panzer, 179...

Public librarians do not publish as regularly in LIS literature as do library school faculty and academic librarians, whose positions often require them to contribute and who consequently dominate the literature. Using content analysis, this study identifies North American public librarians who have contributed to LIS literature within a five-year period, from 1999 to 2003, and explores where t...

Literature studies in North America (US and Canada), Europe, and Asia (particularly Russia, China, Japan, and the Korean peninsula) were reviewed to identify parasitoid guilds associated with Agrilus woodborers. There are at least 12 species of hymenopteran parasitoids attacking eggs of Agrilus beetles and 56 species (36 genera), attacking Agrilus larvae infesting various host plants in North A...

Ossification of the iliac crest is a commonly used classification system to estimate skeletal maturity in managing treatment for patients with scoliosis. The Risser sign has a North American and European variant used in past literature. The Risser Plus system is an 8 point system which combines the two variations into a common system while also assessing the triradiate cartilage (TRC) maturity....

BACKGROUND Postoperative wound infection (PWI) after intracranial neurosurgery remains a significant worldwide problem, resulting in substantial morbidity/mortality if not combatted quickly and energetically. Although the danger of PWI is universally recognized, the reported incidence of PWI after intracranial neurosurgery remains variable, ranging from 1% to 8% in published series. The impact ...

This study presents analysis of pico-hydro electrical power plant in North Sulawesi, Indonesia. The objective of this study is to get a design of axial turbine pico-hydro electrical power plant. The method used the study of literature, survey the construction site of the power plant and the characteristics of the location being a place of study, analysis of hydropower ability and analyzing cost...

In this paper, an analytical model is proposed to compute the optimal number of clusters that minimizes the energy consumption of multi-hop wireless sensor networks. In the proposed analytical model, the average hop count between a general node (GN) and its nearest clusterhead (CH) is obtained assuming a uniform distribution. How the position of the sink impacts the optimal number of clusters i...

In recent years, the development of ”News Feed” interfaces have transformed the ways in which individuals seek and encounter information in social network sites. Rather than primarily searching for information, a networked information feed provides a constantly updated stream of information about ongoing activity in the networked community. In the following paper, the components of networked in...