The Philippine fisheries sector has been affected by the impacts of climate change. Vulnerability to change pertains a natural system's ability cope with negative change, variability, and extremes. Assessment (VA) provides framework for evaluation over broad range systems. Tools such as Fisheries Tool (Fish Vool) have developed do VA. "giant squid" diamondback (Thysanoteuthis rhombus) fishery i...

This article seeks to examine the effect of social and psychological factors which affect on the sense of social security. The research design was descriptive and correlation method that applied to questionnaire for measuring all the youth from 20 to 30 years of age from Charmahal va Bakhtiari among 310 ones from different towns were selected by multi-age approach. Data were obtained by using c...

BACKGROUND The World Health Organization estimates that there were 37 million blind people in 2002 and that the prevalence of blindness was 9% among adults in Africa aged 50 years or older. Recent surveys indicate that this figure may be overestimated, while a survey from southern Sudan suggested that postconflict areas are particularly vulnerable to blindness. The aim of this study was to cond...

Mastitis is one of the common diseases of dairy cattle and an inflammatory response of the mammary glands tissue. Mastitis causes considerable loss to the dairy industry. Among several bacterial pathogens that can cause mastitis, Staphylococcus aureus is probably the most lethal agent because it causes chronic and deep infection in the mammary glands that is extremely difficult to be cured. The...

BACKGROUND The enterotoxigenic Staphylococcus aureus is considered as one of the most important cause of food poisoning that manifests with gastroenteritis, diarrhea, and vomiting. Its complications usually occur when bacterial virulence genes are produced. The most important virulence factors are cell-associated components, exoenzymes, exotoxins, enterotoxins, and enterotoxin-like toxins. OB...

Hepatitis B (HB) disease occurs with high risk behaviors in the different communities. Aim of this study was to find out some of local customs in lifestyle that might be risk factors for transmitting this disease in order to design the educational programs and control it periodically in Chaharmahal VA Bakhtiari, Iran. This was a case-control study, carried out on patients with HB and the contro...