case report: recently a 20-day-old layer flock with mortality has been submitted to the pcr lab. infectious bronchitis virus (ibv) has been detected in the clinical samples. results: a phylogenetic tree based on a partial s1 gene sequence showed iranian ibv variant located in lx4-type cluster. this cluster include all qxibv-type detected in china and european countries. the highest sequence hom...

this article studies the depiction of chinese miners in the ghanaian news website entitled modern ghana. a total of 87 articles comprising 43752 words were retrieved. van leeuwen’s (2008) theory of the representation of the social actors was utilised to examine the depiction of chinese miners in the ghanaian press. in this regard, six applicable tools were used and these include exclusion, role...

As a former Portuguese colony, Macao is the only region in China where Cantonese, a variety of Chinese, and English, an international language, are enjoying de facto official statuses, with Putonghua being a quasi-official language and Portuguese being another official language. Recently, with an increasing number of Mainland Chinese students crossing the border to pursue their tertiar...

background: the phylogenetic location of chinese spirometra sparganum isolates remains unclear. the aim of this study was to explore the phylogenetic location of the spirometra sparganum isolates from china. methods: the 28s ribosomal dna (rdna) d1 sequences of 14 spirometra sparganum isolates collected from thirteen locations in china were analyzed by using neighbor-joining (nj), maximum parsi...

the fundamental doctrine of eastern culture is based on the ethics. this is a thought found in every, even tiny, lesson taught to the children. in fact, all the values are takes from the life, even apparently materialistic but spiritual deep inside. here, in order to exalt the soul and to fulfill the valuable status an endless effort of the man is taken in his life. therefore, no boundary can b...

Background and aims: The aim of this study was to explore ethnic differences in demographic and socioeconomic determinants of poor physical and mental self-rated health (SRH) in the United States. Methods: We used data from the Collaborative Psychiatric Epidemiology Surveys (CPES) 2001- 2003, which included a national household probability sample of 18237 individuals including 520 Vietnamese, 5...