Radon and its decay products are significant natural sources of radiation exposure for the general population, both in the living and working environment. Thus, extensive residential and occupational radon surveys are continuously performed worldwide. In Greece, indoor radon mapping has covered mostly the north-eastern, eastern and southern part of the country (Nikolopoulos et al., 2002, Clouva...

BACKGROUND Peste des petits ruminants (PPR) is a contagious disease listed by the World Organisation for Animal health (OIE) as being a specific hazard. It affects sheep, goats, and wild ungulates, and is prevalent throughout the developing world particularly Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. PPR has been targeted for eradication by 2030 by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United N...

We quantified the distribution, abundance and assemblage structure of macrofauna at 22 stations in Gorgan bay, seasonally in 2012-2013. Also, depth, temperature, salinity, DO, TOM and sediment particle size were measured in each station. The highest concentration of TOM was measured near the western littoral zone (10.22) while the mouth part and north-eastern area was characterized by the lowes...

Several features make Alu insertions a powerful tool used in population genetic studies: the polymorphic nature of many Alu insertions, the stability of an Alu insertion event and, furthermore, the ancestral state of an Alu insertion is known to be the absence of the Alu element at a particular locus and the presence of an Alu insertion at the site that forward mutational change. This study ana...

In this paper, we propose a new Social Network Analysis based approach to providing a multi-dimensional picture of the research scenarios of a set of countries of interest and to detecting possible “research hubs” operating therein. This knowledge allows innovation managers to understand the impact of different socio-economic conditions on the research level of a country. Furthermore, it may he...

Although constitutionalism movements have their roots in the efforts to limit power of European monarchies beginning with Magna Carta, modern sense is product global political and social conditions created by French Revolution 1789. In 19th century, when empires struggled for Europe economic crises shook world, appeared as a solution these crises. this context, addition constitutional revolutio...

Genotype A is common in Brazil, North America, Northwest Europe, South Asia, Central Africa, Tunisia and Benin [2,4,5]. Genotype B is common in China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam and United States of America. Genotype C is prevalent in Australia, Polynesia, Melanesia, Micronesia, Indonesia, China, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Thailand, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, India,...