Although the host immune response to the 60-kDa chlamydial heat shock protein (hsp60) has been implicated in trachoma pathogenesis, no studies have examined mucosal immune responses to hsp60 in populations for which chlamydia is endemic. Tears and sera from Nepali villagers were reacted against hsp60 fusion proteins, whole hsp60, and the major outer membrane protein (MOMP). Tears from villagers...

FAO and World Bank promote livestock rearing as a way of poverty alleviation and food security especially among rural poor. Villagers are usually involved in mixed crop-livestock farming. Interviews with villagers in the HableRud basin revealed that some changes have happened and comparing with past decades, fewer villagers keep livestock. They believed that number of villagers who kept livesto...

Developing biomass-based power generation is helpful for China to reduce the dependence on fossil fuels and to release the targets of carbon emission peak. The decentralized farming method leads to Chinese farmers’ weak willingness to collect and sell crop residues to biomass-based power plants. The purpose of this paper is to solve the issue by proposing a novel biomass feedstock supply model ...

The first big Nazi raid on the village of Le Chambon came in the summer of 1942. The villagers had already been warned about what would happen if they tried to hide Jews from the Nazis, and it was no surprise when squads of police descended on the village looking for the hundreds of Jews that were in fact hidden in the village and the surrounding countryside. The police vans were followed by a ...

In the context of rapid global urbanization, rural villagers’ demand for public space is increasing. This article understands development through perception villagers. Using literature research method, questionnaire survey field investigation method and other methods, results behavior in spaces satisfaction were analyzed. The study found that mostly terms accessibility, good landscape, environm...

The specific framing of health within a development context has implications for constructions of wellness and illness and how people react in times of ill health. In Thailand, recent national HIV/AIDS education-prevention campaigns commonly use topdown relay of public health information. This pattern replicates numerous development projects that aim to bring useful and beneficial knowledge to ...

Commodity booms can lead to intense pressure access land. We document a case where villagers, far from being passive victims of land grabs, acquire themselves by navigating between customary institutions and state policies. The mechanisms which villagers re-territorialize forest their advantage include enclosure, encroachment, theft, re-claiming. These evolve over time, notably in response clos...

This paper seeks to explore the sustainable development of contemporary Chinese villages by taking Nalu Village in China as a case study. Ethnographic in-depth interviews and observations are used investigate transformation rich history heritage village. The research analyses informed multi-dimensional framework development. finds that state’s naming village “Chinese Traditional Village” has pr...