BACKGROUND Across the world, millions of women unintentionally become pregnant and decide to terminate the pregnancy. Despite progressive abortion laws in South Africa (SA), evidence suggests that many women of all ages still resort to unsafe terminations outside legal, designated facilities. Media reports alert the public to an increase in the illegal dumping of fetuses and abandoned babies, s...

This study examined the implications and causes of illegal refuse dumps in Ilorin South Local Government Area, Kwara State. A descriptive survey method was adopted for the study. The population of the study were all the people in Ilorin South Local Government Area. A sample of 500 respondents was randomly selected from the various wards in the local government area. Questionnaire was the instru...

Solid waste dumping sites always pose serious environmental problems on air, soil, surface water and groundwater. Landfill leachate contains thousands of complex components and become part of groundwater after infiltration. Vicinity communities are comparatively more affected through hazard activities. Generally, it is regarded as global issue but problems are more sever in developing countries...

Several problems are associated with gastric resection, including the dumping syndrome, reflux esophagitis, and malabsorption. A better understanding of the pathophysiological changes will shed light on new and improved therapy. Serum levels of seven circulating gastrointestinal hormones following a standardized solid meal and a brief score of symptoms were evaluated in 10 patients after partia...

In order to investigate the possible involvement of gastrointestinal hormones in functional disorders of the digestive tract, serum motilin, neurotensin and gastrin levels in their response to oral intake of fat and glucose were examined in patients with irritable colon syndrome and dumping syndrome. The following results were obtained. (1) Basal serum motilin levels were higher in patients wit...

We study the canonical Krugman (1979) trade model with non-CES preferences that yield autarky at finite costs. prove a non-monotone impact of gradual liberalization. At first, near autarky, emerging reduces world welfare, while free it becomes large enough to be beneficial (Krugman's result). This non-monotonicity persists under heterogenous firms. The harmful small-scale is explained by variab...

This paper analyzes the dispute between Thailand and the United States regarding the method of calculating the anti-dumping duty on polyethylene retail carrier bags from Thailand. In December 2006, after a series of WTO Appellate Body reports, the United States ceased zeroing in original investigations. The United States implemented the policy change prospectively, that is only for future cases...

Dumping practices can damage the domestic product market because they are imported at lower prices. Indonesia has imposed antidumping measures on Polyester Staple Fiber (PSF) commodities since 2010 until now. This study aims to analyze impact of long-term and short-term duties (BMAD) imposition import value PSF in Indonesia. was conducted using quantitative analysis methods with multiple linear...

The X-linked Drosophila gene spaghetti squash (sqh) encodes the regulatory light chain of nonmuscle myosin II. To assess the requirement for myosin II in oogenesis and early embryogenesis, we induced homozygous germline clones of the hypomorphic mutation sqh1 in otherwise heterozygous mothers. Developing oocytes in such sqh1 germline clones often failed to attain full size due to a defect in 'd...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the potential toxicological effects on fish related to the leakage of yperite from rusted bomb shells dumped at sea. Both in vivo and field studies have been performed. As for the in vivo experiment, specimen of European eel were subcutaneously injected with 0.015, 0.15 and 1.5mg/kg of yperite and sacrificed after 24 and 48 h. In the field study, specimen o...