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Background : Tuberculosis is known as one of the main causes of mortality worldwide. 1.7 milliard people worldwide are infected with TB germs, there are 8 million new cases of TB annually, and three million deaths occur due to the disease in developing countries. Materials and Methods: This study included all the cases who had referred to all the health centers of Lorestan province with posi...

Order copies of this and other ACL proceedings from: The workshop focused on Multi-Word Expressions (MWEs), which represent an indispensable part of natural languages and appear steadily on a daily basis, both novel and already existing but paraphrased, which makes them important for many natural language applications. Unfortunately, while easily mastered by native speakers, MWEs are often non-...

Seven hermit crab species of the pagurid genus Pagurixus Melin, 1939 are reported on the basis of material recently collected from the northern and central islands of the Ryukyu Islands, southwestern Japan. Four species are new to the hermit crab fauna of the Ryukyu Islands: P. acanthocarpus Komai & Okuno, 2009; P. fasciatus Komai & Myorin, 2005; P. formosus Komai, 2010; and P. tweediei (Forest...

This paper aims to reveal the multidimensionality of knowledge-sharing intentions and its perception by employees in optometry practices. Data were collected from 187 optometry employees in Taiwan through a survey. The collected data were used to examine the proposed model. Empirical results show that individual autonomy, organizational collaboration, professional requirement, knowledge-sharing...

The parasitoid complex associated with Monochamus galloprovincialis (Olivier), vector of the pine wood nematode, is discussed. Four species of the family Braconidae and one Ichneumonidae were found associated with Monochamus galloprovincialis in Portugal, namely Atanycolus denigrator (Linnaeus), Atanycolus ivanowi (Kokujev), Cyanopterus flavator (Fabricius), Doryctes striatellus (Nees) (Braconi...

A molecular phylogenetic survey was conducted using mtDNA sequences of 12S and 16S rRNA, and cyt-b genes to examine taxonomic relationships among populations of the Pan-Oriental microhylid, Microhyla ornata, from India, Bangladesh, Thailand, Laos, China, Taiwan, and the Ryukyu Archipelago of Japan. Two discrete clades are recognized within this species, one consisting of populations from India ...