This study captured evidence of the changes to Qinkou village during the period of its development as an example of eco-tourism in Yunnan province, Southwest China; a process which began in 2001. By examining the original project brief and the resulting changes to the village in 2001, 2006 and 2013 respectively, the paper explores how tradition and culture were deployed with regard to the built...

Multi-drug resistant Shigella dysenteriae type 1 caused an epidemic of dysentery in a village in southern India. The epidemic started as a common source outbreak, through the piped water supply of the village with subsequent person-to-person spread. Although the attack rate was high, with nearly 1/2 the children under age 5 being affected, the case fatality rate was only about 1%. Of the 248...

BACKGROUND Childhood mortality remains an important subject, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa where levels are still unacceptably high. To achieve the set Millennium Development Goals 4, calls for comprehensive application of the proven cost-effective interventions. Understanding spatial clustering of childhood mortality can provide a guide in targeting the interventions in a more strategic a...

The Western Pacific and South East Asia regions are the largest and most populous of the six World Health Organisation regions and include more than 40 countries. More than 75% of the world's estimated 350 million carriers are located here. The region has therefore provided many insights into the epidemiology, natural history, and control of hepatitis B infection and has been home to the first ...

Human papillomavirus type 18 (HPV18) is the second most common oncogenic HPV genotype, responsible for ∼15% of cervical cancers worldwide. In this study, we constructed a full HPV18 transcription map using HPV18-infected raft tissues derived from primary human vaginal or foreskin keratinocytes. By using 5' rapid amplification of cDNA ends (RACE), we mapped two HPV18 transcription start sites (T...

SUHARDONO and D.B. COPEMAN 2000. Population dinamics of Lymnaea rubiginosa in rice fields and its infection with larvae of trematodes. Jurnal Ilmu Ternak dan Veteriner 5(4): 241-249. Field of irrigated rice paddy was the most suitable habitat as breeding site of snail Lymnaea rubiginosa, the intermadiate host of Fasciola gigantica and other trematodes. Fluctuations in the population of fresh wa...

Restoration of forests is now considered an essential tool to combat climate change and the global biodiversity decline. However, our understanding how animal communities recover after restoration interventions in tropical limited. Here, we aim reveal recovery patterns fruit-feeding butterfly across a large-scale rainforest area Kibale National Park, Uganda. Our study represents chronosequence ...

Patients with mycetoma usually present late with advanced disease, which is attributed to lack of medical and health facilities in endemic areas, poor health education and low socio-economic status. With this background, an integrated patient management model at the village level was designed to address the various problems associated with mycetoma. The model was launched in an endemic village ...

A rockslide-debris avalanche destroyed the remote village of Guinsaugon in Southern Leyte, Philippines, on 17 February 2006. Although search and rescue procedures were implemented immediately, the scale of the landslide and a lack of information about its nature resulted in unfocused and imprecise efforts in the early days of the operation. Technical support was only introduced five days after ...