as a commercial instrument, bank check has an important role in the life of international economy. therefore, along with unification of international regulations for bill of exchange and promissory note, the idea of applying uniform regulations to the check was gradually improved led to the approval of three genève conventions in march 1931. the said conventions were accepted by most countries ...

Daniela Flück, Igor D. Braz, Stefanie Keiser, Fabienne Hüppin, Thomas Haider, Matthias P. Hilty, James P. Fisher, and Carsten Lundby Zürich Center for Integrative Human Physiology (ZIHP), University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland; Institute of Physiology, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland; School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences, College of Life and Environmental Sciences,...

Eddy covariance flux measurements confirm extreme CH4 emissions from a Swiss hydropower reservoir and resolve their short-term variability W. Eugster, T. DelSontro, and S. Sobek ETH Zurich, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland Eawag, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Kastanienbaum, Switzerland ETH Zurich, Institute for Biogeochemistry and Polluta...

Using landscape characteristics to define an adjusted distance metric for improving kriging interpolations Steve W. Lyon a; Rasmus Sørensen b; Johan Stendahl c;Jan Seibert ad a Physical Geography and Quaternary Geology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden b Aquatic Science and Assessment, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden c Soil and Environment, Swedish University...

Knut Ole Sundnes, MD, Norway, Chairman Jacov Adler, MD, Israel Marvin L. Birnbaum, MD, PhD, USA Professor Johan Calltorp, PhD, Sweden Professor S. William A. Gunn, MD, Switzerland Dr. Omar J. Khatib, MD, Organization of African Unity Professor Michele Massellis, MD, Italy Ernesto A. Pretto, MD, MPH, USA Robert Souria, United Nations Department of Humanitarian Affairs, Switzerland Takashi Ukai, ...

We examined small mammals as hosts for Anaplasmataceae in southern Sweden. Of 771 rodents, 68 (8.8%) were infected by Candidatus Neoehrlichia mikurensis, but no other Anaplasmataceae were found. Candidatus N. mikurensis has recently been found in human patients in Germany, Switzerland, and Sweden, which suggests that this could be an emerging pathogen in Europe.

1 Institute of environmental Sciences, University of Zurich, CH-8057 Zürich, Switzerland; 3 Department of Statistics and Computer Science, Gembloux Agricultural University, B-5030 Gembloux, Belgium; 4 Institute of Zoology, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstr. 190, CH-8057 Zürich, Switzerland; 5 Department of pure and applied Zoology, Gembloux Agricultural University, B-5030 Gembloux and Depar...

1 Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, 413 19 Gothenburg, Sweden 2 Department of Computational Biology, University of Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland 3 Gothenburg Global Biodiversity Center, Gothenburg, Sweden 4 CONICET, Centro Nacional Patagonico, Boulevard Almirante Brown 2915, 9120 Puerto Madryn, Chubut, Argentina. 5 Facultad de Ciencias Natural...

1 University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland 2 Max-Planck-Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany 3 Institut für Meteorologie und Klimaforschung, Karlsruhe, Germany 4 Central Aerological Observatory, Moscow Region, Russia 5 Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany 6 DLR, Institut fuer Physik der Atmosphaere, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany 7 Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden *...