Mitrani Department of Desert Ecology, Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Desert Animal Adaptations and Husbandry, Wyler Department of Dryland Agriculture, Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Midreshet Ben-Gurion, Israel, Department of Ecology and Environment Conservation, Omsk State Pedagogical Univ...

the sand ch ild is the m asterpiece by the moro ccan- french au thor, tahar ben-jel loun. in this maste rpiece, by rec alling the memories of h is na tive cou ntry and omi tting the boun dry betwe en reali ty and fan tasy, ben -j ell oun has crat ed a world which is the combination of these two elements. ben-jelloun presents symbolically in this work, a tragic matter. in this masterpiece, the a...

Balkan endemic nephropathy (BEN) was described in 1957, and this review gives an account of research forty years later. The etiology remains the main unanswered problem in BEN despite broad investigations conducted into the possible role of genetic factors, environmental agents and immune mechanisms.The evidence accumulated so far indicates that BEN is an environmentally-induced disease. A cont...

Haplotypes have been useful markers for anthropological studies and to define the flow of the S allele in human populations. They have different ethnic and geographical origins: the Central African Republic (CAR) type originated in Central southern and Eastern Africa, the Benin type originated in the central-west of African, the Senegal type is characteristic of the Atlantic coast region, the C...