Bovine tuberculosis (TB) is a chronic disease in cattle that causes a serious food security challenge to the agricultural industry in terms of dairy and meat production. Spatio-temporal disease analysis in terms of time trends and geographic disparities of disease dynamics can provide useful insights into the overall efficiency of control efforts as well as the relative efficiency of different ...

The overall total population of the Arab nations in the world is estimated to be approximately 315 million (estimates; World Almanac, 2004). Arab populations encompass a vast geographical region that extends from Iraq in the east to Morocco in the west. They occupy the whole of Mesopotamia, Middle East, Arabian Gulf, North Africa, as well as some parts of East and West Africa. Arab populations ...

Parasitic isopods of Bopyroidea and Cryptoniscoidea (commonly referred to as epicarideans) are unique in using crustaceans as both intermediate and definitive hosts. In total, 795 epicarideans are known, representing ~7.7% of described isopods. The rate of description of parasitic species has not matched that of free-living isopods and this disparity will likely continue due to the more cryptic...

Hong Qian, Robert E. Ricklefs* and Peter S. White Research and Collections Center, Illinois State Museum, 1011 East Ash Street, Springfield, IL 62703, USA; and Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 72 Wenhua Road, Shenyang, Liaoning 110016, China Department of Biology, University of Missouri-St Louis, St Louis, MO 63121-4499 USA Department of Biology, University of North Ca...

prevalence of coagulopathies (n=6010) including factor viii deficient (haemophilia a) individuals (n=3205) were investigated and analysed in 24 provinces of iran. for all coagulopathies, the prevalence (per 100,000) was the highest with 24.45 in semnan (north east of iran), followed by hamadan (west) with 17.56, the lowest was observed in kordestan (west) as 0.88, followed by kohkiluyeh & boyr-...

This study quantifies the water footprint of consumption (WFcons) regarding agricultural products for three diets - the current diet (REF), a healthy diet (HEALTHY) and a vegetarian diet (VEG) - for the four EU zones WEST, NORTH, SOUTH and EAST. The WFcons related to the consumption of agricultural products (4265l per capita per day or lcd) accounts for 89% of the EU's total WFcons (4815lcd). T...

Mid-infrared observations of the central source of NGC 1068 have been obtained with a spatial resolution in the deconvolved image of 0.1 ′′ (∼7 pc). The central source is extended by ∼1 ′′ in the north-south direction but appears un-resolved in the east-west direction over most of its length. About two-thirds of its flux can be ascribed to a core structure which is itself elongated north-south ...