The first health impact assessment (HIA) performed on a high level local government policy in New Zealand was undertaken on the Greater Christchurch Urban Development Strategy in 2005. This report describes its development and implementation and the results from the process evaluation including some recommendations made in the assessment. We concluded that HIA is a useful tool for local governm...

despite routine vaccination programs against newcastle disease (nd), sporadic cases have occasionally occurred that remain a constant threat to commercial poultry. ten isolates of newcastle disease viruses (ndv) from infected broiler chicken cases were obtained from various locations in fars province during 2009-2011 and genetically analyzed using reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction...

objective: flowering time (ft) in cereals controlled by genes that had a main factor on plant development. methods: genetic and phenotypic diversity of four flowering time genes (ft2, ft3, ft4, ppd-h1) in 19 genotypes of cultivated and wild barley was evaluated and a total of 107 alleles were amplified. genotypes based on days to flowering time and molecular data were grouped into early, middle...

avian infectious bronchitis (ib) is a major cause of economic losses in poultry industry. the ib virus primarily affects respiratory tract, but various strains differ in their tropism for other target organs such as kidney and alimentary tract. the objective of this study was to estimate the pathogenicity of iranian ibv variant (ir-1), which is limited exclusively to iran. specific pathogen fre...

 Recently, special type of fuel cells has been developed that operates in a Dead End mode. Working in this condition, the Dead-End fuel cell is supplied withhydrogen almost at the same rate of consumption. It is noteworthy to mention thatall of the water transport mechanisms have been considered in this simulation.Water accumulation that is directly proportional to the cell current is of a grea...

water quality is a worldwide problem which affects human beings lives fundamentally. water scarcity is intensified in result of quality deterioration. different factors such as population increase, economic development and water pollution could be considered as the origins of the problem. the study and forecasting of water quality is necessary to prevent serious water quality deteriorations in ...

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