india, the second most populous country in the world enjoying 6% economic growth during the last years of the twentieth century, is considered as a newly emerged power, and is predicted to be the fourth economic power by 2025. development of military might, outstanding software power particularly in space industry and entering nuclear technology arena provide a special position for india in the...

The historical distribution of the cheetah Acinonyx jubatus extended from Africa through the Arabian Peninsula into Iran and Afghanistan. From there, the range continued eastwards to Pakistan and India, and northeast through Central Asia: Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan (Nowell & Jackson 1996). During the Middle Ages, cheetahs also occurred to the west of the Caspian Sea, in Transcaucas...

Phylogenetic analyses of VP1-coding sequences from viruses isolated from recent outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) are described. The PanAsia strain of FMD virus type O continues to be widespread throughout Asia, although other type O strains are also cocirculating in many countries. A new type O strain has been detected in India and the Middle East. Apparently new strains of types A and...

A deep low in sea-level pressure is present from May to September over Pakistan and northwestern India (hereafter, the Pak–India low). It is often referred as the ‘‘heat’’ low to convey the significance of surface thermal effects reckoned to be important for its origin. The present analysis, rooted in observations and diagnostic modeling, suggests that the Pak–India low is influenced both by re...

Cancer mortality risk due to intake of selenium contaminated rice in Iran and Qatar: Implication for an island country on food importation Beuy Joob, Viroj Wiwanitkit Sanitation 1 Medical Academic Center, Bangkok 10160, Thailand Hainan Medical University, Haikou, China Faculty of Medicine, University of Niš, Niš, Serbia Joseph Ayobabalola University, Ikeji Arakeji, Nigeria Surin Rajabhat Univer...

a 9 bp deletion between cytochrome oxidase subunit ii and trna lys genes in mitochondrial dna, has proven to be an extremely informative marker for tracing population history. using the pcr-page and pcr-sscp techniques in this study, 152 dna samples collected from iranian populations were screened for the 9 bp deletion. no deletion was observed. a length polymorphism, most probably a 9 bp tripl...

The Ninth meeting of the WHO Technical Advisory Group (TAG) on Leprosy Control was held in Cairo, Egypt on 6th and 7th March 2008. The meeting was chaired by Professor W.C.S. Smith and attended by national leprosy programme managers from Brazil, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Cambodia, Egypt, Iran, India, Nigeria and Thailand. In addition, several experts and members of the Technical Commiss...