A meta-analysis on the seroprevalence of hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) and antibodies against hepatitis C virus (anti-HCV) in 27881 hepatocellular carcinomas from 90 studies confirmed wide international variations. A predominance of HBsAg was found in hepatocellular carcinomas from most Asian, African and Latin American countries, but anti-HCV predominated in Europe, North America, Japan,...

Here, we report the draft genome sequence of Leifsonia xyli subsp. xyli strain gdw1, isolated from the stem of Badila sugarcane located at the Guangdong Key Laboratory for Crops Genetic Improvement (Guanzhou, China), that causes ratoon stunting disease of sugarcane. The de novo genome of Leifsonia xyli subsp. xyli was assembled with 48 scaffolds and a G+C content of 67.68%, and contained 2.6 Mb...

Pakistan Turkey Syria Chile Egypt Greece Argentina Uruguay Bolivia South Africa Peru 318 484 490 372 397 371 344 269 159 191 136 45 44 44 42 35 28 28 26 20 18 17 Consumption (g/person/day) % of Daily Energy Intake Rationale Wheat is the most widely produced cereal in the world, most of which is destined for human consumption; thus, its contribution to energy intake is significant, particularly ...

Global water scarcity is becoming a constraint for human development. Therefore there is a need to enhance water productivity of the irrigated and rainfed agriculture to meet the increasing food demand due to the population growth. This paper describes modeling efforts to assess present and future water needs for food, people and environment. This exercise is being carried out by the Internatio...

Twelve species (including six new ones) of the spider wasp genus Gonaporus Ashmead, 1902 are revised. The composition of the genus is discussed. Six new species of Gonaporus are described: G. simulator Wahis & I. Zonstein, sp. nov. (♀ ♂, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Mauritania), G. emiratus I. Zonstein & Wahis, sp. nov. (♀ ♂, United Arab Emirates), G. jaziratensis Wahis & I. Zonst...

workers’ remittances constitute one of the most important sources of external finance for many developing countries. although it shows a decreasing trend in recent years, egypt after 1970s with her regular and massive labor migration to abroad has been still one of the gainer countries on remittances across the world. empirical studies that implemented for various countries reveal workers’ remi...

BACKGROUND The objective of this study was to systematically review the medical literature for the prevalence of waterpipe tobacco use among the general and specific populations. METHODS We electronically searched MEDLINE, EMBASE, and the ISI the Web of Science. We selected studies using a two-stage duplicate and independent screening process. We included cohort studies and cross sectional st...

This paper analyzes the effect of ICT infrastructure availability on FDI inflow in D8countries (Bangladesh, Indonesia, Iran, Egypt, Nigeria, Malaysia, Pakistan and Turkey). Panel data for period 1997-2018 has been used analysis done using fix model suggested by Hausman specification test. The result shows positive significant between inflows, along with other controlling variables like market s...