Across the world people are moving nationally from rural areas to bigger towns and cities, and within the European Union, people are also increasingly moving between countries. While immigration to the Nordic countries has exceeded natural population increase as the most prominent driver of population growth, the Baltic countries have experienced significant out-migration in the latest decades....

Dengue has become a serious public health problem in India. More than 50 outbreaks of dengue have been reported in different parts of the country1,2. In India Aedes aegypti Linn (Diptera: Culicidae) is a principal vector of dengue and dengue haemorrhagic fever (DHF)3. Dengue virus has also been recently detected in Ae. albopictus Skuse4. Ae. aegypti has a widespread distribution in many towns a...

Aedes aegypti, the mosquito responsible for transmitting dengue, has colonized many cities and towns throughout Arizona. Determining both the migration between, and the origin of, local Ae. aegypti populations is important for vector control and disease prevention purposes. Amplified fragment length polymorphism was used to infer geographic structure and local substructure, and effective migrat...

The most profound change in the relationship between humans and their environment was the introduction of agriculture and pastoralism. With this millennia lasting economic shift from simple food acquisition to complex food production humankind paved the way for its grand transitional process from mobile groups to sedentary villages, towns and ultimately cities, and from egalitarian bands to chi...

Index The IWHA project The partners CHAPTER I Italy The context Immigration and access to the social-health services Policies for immigration in the Emilia Romagna Region and in the towns and cities involved in the study: a closer look at the overall picture Field research Good practices and social-health services for immigrant women in the areas of the study Services and immigrant women: analy...

The growth and character of urban morphological studies in South Korea are described, giving particular attention to the formal aspects of cities and towns in Korea’s long history, and examining the research approaches and findings. The influence of European morphological perspectives is considered. An attempt is made to encapsulate the state-of-the-art in Korean urban form studies. Owing to pr...

Household heads who grew up as members of large families and/or as natives of small towns or rural areas tend to have less education and are more likely to be poor than those coming from small families and/or large cities. Data to support these conclusions have been drawn from two independent sources--a special Social Security Administration supplement to the April 1968 Current Population Surve...