BACKGROUND South Asian studies, including those from Nepal, have documented increased risk of neonatal mortality among girls, despite their early biologic survival advantage. We examined sex differences in neonatal morbidity and care-seeking behavior to determine whether such differences could help explain previously observed excess late neonatal mortality among girls in Nepal. METHODS A seco...

Wetlands respond to nutrient enrichment with characteristic increases in soil nutrients and shifts in plant community composition. These responses to eutrophication tend to be more rapid and longer lasting in oligotrophic systems. In this study, we documented changes associated with water quality from 1989 to 1999 in oligotrophic Everglades wetlands. We accomplished this by resampling soils and...

A survey on the harpacticoid copepods from an intertidal zone in Hyeopjae sandy beach, Jeju Island, Korea, resulted in the discovery of an unusual laophontid, Jejulaophontehyeopjaeensis sp. n., which cannot be placed in any extant genus within the family. To accommodate the species, a new genus of the family Laophontidae T. Scott, 1905 is proposed and fully described here. The new species is cl...

After a reference to the international legal framework for cross-border cooperation between (regional and local) territorial entities in Council of Europe (Spain - France, Portugal, United Kingdom around Gibraltar), we will analyze how co-operation carried out by Spanish/Moroccan (specifically, Ceuta Melilla provinces Tetouan Nador, respectively), pose certain degree difficulty, as it is an iss...

Cockerill, K. 2002. Context is Key: The Media Role in Shaping Public Perceptions about Environmental Issues. Environmental Practice 4(2): 107-113. (June 2002) Published by Cambridge University Press (ISSN: 1466-0474). DOI:10.1017/S1466046602021117 Publisher’s version available from Cambridge Journals Online at: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=ENP Context Is Key: The Medi...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the cost effectiveness of soft tissue injury management by emergency nurse practitioners (ENPs) and extended scope physiotherapists (ESPs) compared with the routine care provided by doctors in an emergency department (ED). DESIGN Randomised, pragmatic trial of equivalence. SETTING A single ED in England. PARTICIPANTS 372 patients were randomised, 126 to the ESP grou...

The role of soil insects is very important as environmental indicator organisms, balancing ecosystems, and helping the process decomposition. This study aims to determine diversity in Kerandangan Ecotourism Nature Park (ENP) West Lombok. flora fauna that it has makes ENP suitable an ecotourism area offers interesting tourist objects well educational facilities. Sampling was carried out using pi...

The application of a Strike Limit Algorithm (SLA) based on Adaptive Kalman Filtering techniques to the eastern North Pacific (ENP) stock gray whales is described. This SLA modification an earlier one which was designed for Bering-Chukchi-Beaufort Seas bowhead whales. Extended filters are used estimate present size and posterior probability distributions Maximum Sustainable Yield (MSY) MSY-rate ...

Packed column experiments were conducted to investigate the transport and blocking behavior of surfactant- and polymer-stabilized engineered silver nanoparticles (Ag-ENPs) in saturated natural aquifer media with varying content of material < 0.063 mm in diameter (silt and clay fraction), background solution chemistry, and flow velocity. Breakthrough curves for Ag-ENPs exhibited blocking behavio...