A little known tachinid genus, Metadrinomyia Shima, is revised based on four East Asian species including two new to science: M. flavifrons sp. nov. and M. xanthokolos sp. nov. The majority of the specimens used in this study were collected from low vegetation in the foothills of mountains in South Korea. The new species can be clearly distinguished from their congeners by their pruinosity, cha...

© 2000 The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development / THE WORLD BANK Lant Pritchett is with the East Asia and the Pacific Country Units at the World Bank. His e-mail address is [email protected]. The author would like to thank William Easterly, Ross Levine, Deon Filmer, Dani Rodrik, and the participants at seminars at the World Bank and the Massachusetts Institute of Technol...

Six new species of the genus Junnanotrechus Uéno & Yin, 1993 are described from Yunnan Province, southern China: J. wrasei sp. n. (from the Diancang Shan Mt. R.), J. triporus sp. n. (from the mountains east of Weishan), J. schuelkei sp. n. (from the Ailao Shan Mountain Range), J. elegantulus sp. n. (from the Daxueshan Mount east of Mengsa Town), J. oblongus sp. n. (from the Daxueshan Mount west...

Correspondence to: Alejandro Aballay; Email: [email protected] Tell us about your early days I grew up and studied all the way to graduate school in Mendoza, Argentina. A beautiful city located at the foot of the Andes mountains, at only a couple of hours away from the Aconcagua mountain, which at almost 23 000 ft., is the highest peak in the American continent. Argentina has a history of a la...

Publications that describe the composition of the human Y-DNA haplogroup in diffferent ethnic or linguistic groups and geographic regions provide no explicit explanation of the distribution of human paternal lineages in relation to specific ecological conditions. Our research attempts to address this topic for the Caucasus, a geographic region that encompasses a relatively small area but harbor...

The vulnerable Chinese cobra (Naja atra) ranges from southeastern China south of the Yangtze River to northern Vietnam and Laos. Large mountain ranges and water bodies may influence the pattern of genetic diversity of this species. We sequenced the mitochondrial DNA control region (1029 bp) using 285 individuals collected from 23 localities across the species' range and obtained 18 sequences un...

1. The Bushbuckridge environment and potentials for conflict The Bushbuckridge area of South Africa, together with the Pilgrim's Rest and Graskop area that adjoins it at the top of the escarpment, is a complex and sensitive environment of human settlement, commercial agriculture and nature reserves. Bushbuckridge town, from which the region is named, is a small trading and administrative centre...

Abstract The main idea of this project was to create an access road for the tourists and also improve winter sports conditions, especially ski, in beautiful Parag Mountains. It a very challenging project, as takes until 1600 m at alpine elevation. One structures delivered assembled November 2019, 3 weeks hard weather with 5 working men team.

[1] We use the GEOS-Chem chemical transport model to interpret observations of tropospheric ozone from the Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer (TES) satellite instrument in summer 2005. Observations from TES reveal elevated ozone in the middle troposphere (500–400 hPa) across North Africa and the Middle East. Observed ozone abundances in the middle troposphere are at a maximum in summer and a mi...