Article history: Received 7 February 2006 Received in revised form 1 August 2006 Accepted 2 August 2006 The impact of climate change on tourism has been examined in terms of changes in a destination's climate; the impact of ancillary effects such as sea-level rise has been neglected. In this study the role that coastal and other landscape features have on the attractiveness of tourist destinati...

Background: Health is an essential component of human rights and the rights are interdependent, indivisible, and correlated. The present study aimed at codifying a multidimensional health index according to multistage index development and describing the status of this index in 22 municipal districts of Tehran. Methods: This study was conducted using the data collected in the second round of Ur...

diversity of coxsackievirus A16 associated with hand, foot, and mouth disease epidemics in Japan from 1983 to 2003. evidence for inter-typic recombination in the emergence of human enterovi-rus 71 subgenotypes. BMC Microbiol. To the Editor: Nepal, a landlocked country in Southeast Asia with an estimated population of 27 million, is divided administratively into 5 regions; 75 districts comprise ...

The aim of this study is to examine the change of population composition in terms of religion and language in the districts of state Assam in Northeast India during post independence period. The analysis is based on district level census data of Assam during 1951 to 2001. The result shows that the proportion of Muslim population has been rising rapidly in some districts whereas the Hindu popula...

The present study was conducted to assess the availability of Black Bengal breeding bucks in five districts from the Northern part (Lalmonirhat and Rangpur), Central part (Tangail and Mymensingh) and Southern part (Khulna) of Bangladesh and also to explore the relationship between distance of does from these breeding bucks and type of scarcity. The data were collected using a pre-tested questio...

BACKGROUND Botswana has a shortage of health care workers, especially in primary healthcare. Retention and high performance of employees are closely linked to job satisfaction and motivation, which are both highest where employees' personal values and goals are realised. AIM The aim of the study was to evaluate employees' personal values, and the current and desired organisational culture of ...

OBJECTIVE To describe the characteristics of compatible poliomyelitis cases and to assess the programmatic implications of clusters of such cases in India. METHODS We described the characteristics of compatible poliomyelitis cases, identified clusters of compatible cases (two or more in the same district or neighbouring districts within two months), and examined their relationship to wild pol...