Aim: Deforestation due to unplanned developmental activities leading the loss of carbon sequestration capability and release stored atmosphere has been a prime mover global warming, with changes in climate evident from spatio-temporal rainfall, increase temperature, higher instances vector-borne diseases. Unregulated land cover have necessitated prioritizing ecologically sensitive regions devel...

BACKGROUND Equine coronavirus (ECoV) is considered to be a diarrheic pathogen in foals. In central Kentucky in the United States, it has been shown that approximately 30 % of thoroughbred foals are infected with ECoV and thus it is considered widely prevalent. In contrast, the epidemiology of ECoV and its relationship to diarrhea in foals are poorly understood in Japan. We investigated ECoV in ...

The dual nature of dealing with health problems has been recognized since antiquity. Asklepios, the god of medicine in ancient Greece, had two daughters: Panacea – the goddess of healing and cures, and Hygeia – the goddess of welfare and hygiene, symbolizing curative and preventive medicine respectively. It is well understood nowadays that these two approaches blend: the range from primary and ...

Background: This research aims to measure and study spatial changes, and the reason behind the increasing nitrate content in water wells in the Central District of Khodabandeh County in the Zanjan Province. Methods: The nitrate and nitrite content, electrical conductivity, dissolved oxygen, temperature, total hardness and pH were measured at 40 sampling stations in the study area. The obtained...

The Not-So-Simple Calculus of Winning: Potential U.S. House Candidates’ Nomination and General Election Chances We argue that as the individual qualities of potential House candidates (PCs) improve, their chances in both the nomination and general election chances become stronger. However the same is not true for two key characteristics of the district context in which potential candidates migh...

Following an epidemiological survey of zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniosis (ZCL) in some villages of Badrood, a rural district north of the city of Natanz, central Iran, Phlebotomus (Phlebotomus ) papatasi Scopoli were found to be naturally infected with Leishmania (Leishmania) major zymodeme MON-26. Sandflies were collected and dissected biweekly from rodent burrows during sandfly season, Ap...

The re-engineering of primary healthcare (PHC) is regarded as an essential precursor to the implementation of National Health Insurance in South Africa, but improvements in the provision of PHC services have been patchy. The authors contend that the role of well- functioning rural district hospitals as a hub from which PHC services can be most efficiently managed has been underestimated, and th...

An arts project was initiated at the newly rebuilt district hospital in the city of Exeter in south west England. This paper describes an independent research evaluation project covering the period from its inception in 1992. The findings include both qualitative and economic aspects and were compared with the authors' wider experience of similar projects. For the first time the responses of cl...

Two year (1998 and 1999) extensive survey was carried out in Mandya district hospital, Karnataka for a period of three years to monitor the prevalence of Staphylococcus aureus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa (S. aureus and Ps. aeruginosa) from the indoor air samples of operation theater labor room, children's ward, male and female general wards postoperative wards etc. A rotary air sampler loaded with ...