It is without question that “‘[d]etermination of the proper coverage of an insurance contract when the facts are not in dispute is a question of law’”, i.e., a legal determination. Tennant v. Smallwood, 211 W.Va. 703, 568 S.E.2d 10, 13 (2002) (citations omitted). Nevertheless, it is not uncommon for a party seeking coverage in a declaratory judgment action to identify an “expert witness” to tes...

We examined West Nile virus (WNV) seroprevalence in wild mammals along a forest-to-urban gradient in the US mid-Atlantic region. WNV antibody prevalence increased with age, urbanization, and date of capture for juveniles and varied significantly between species. These findings suggest several requirements for using mammals as indicators of transmission.

increasing non-oil exporting is among the most important concerns for iran. software industry is among the knowledge based and profitable ones. identification of factors affecting export performance of software developers can improve planning that in turn results in increasing software export. in this research a model consisting of seven important variables in software industries including: com...

the aim of this study was to investigate the effect of positive normative feedback on acquisition and retention of throwing skill. the method was quasi-experimental and the population consisted of the 5th grade elementary female students. 60 students were randomly selected from the population and were randomly assigned to four different groups: normative task-orientation, non-normative task-ori...

the study of entrepreneurial orientation concept and codifying a proper strategy to improve the performance of companies has a great importance as the companies have allocated more product market share to themselves by representing new and unique products according to customers’ requirements. the purpose of this study is to examine the impact of entrepreneurial orientation and competitive strat...

the aim of this study was to model the effect of athletic identity on sport orientation in athletes participating in 11th sport olympiad of male students in iran. 400 students were selected as the sample of this study from 2130 students of population. sport orientation questionnaire (soq, gill et al., 1988, α=0.87) and the athletic identity questionnaire (cieslak, 2004, α=0.82) were used. the s...

the aim of this study was to determine the validity and reliability of moral orientation questionnaire in the student athletes. the statistical population consisted of physical education students of mashhad ferdowsi university (n=450). 186 subjects were selected randomly as the sample. 14-item moral orientation questionnaire (miltiadis, 2010) was used which included 2 factors (deontological eth...

The prevalence of neutralizing antibody against West Caucasian bat virus (WCBV) in Miniopterus bats collected in Kenya ranged from 17% to 26%. Seropositive bats were detected in 4 of 5 locations sampled across the country. These findings provide evidence that WCBV, originally isolated in Europe, may emerge in other continents.

The past five years have seen the arrival and extremely rapid expansion of West Nile virus (WNV) in the Western Hemisphere. The rapid sweep across North America has permitted little time for developing knowledge of the virus’s potential impacts on wildlife in the New World. Given this information gap, we here summarize for the ornithological community what is known or can be anticipated for WNV...

We studied the impact of forest edges on the fruit-feeding butterfly communities of three forest remnants in Ghana, West Africa. Community diversity was assessed using traps baited with fermenting banana. Two 200-m, edge-to-interior transects of five traps each were established in each forest. Sampling spanned 1 yr for a total of 180-210 trap days per site and resulted in 2,634 specimens and 56...