Background Shipwrecks on the Baltic Sea seabed pose a serious threat to the marine environment.Fuel, ammunition and chemicals in their ESSIAC POWDER holds can enter the ecosystem at any time, causing an ecological disaster.It is known that oil spills from ship accidents can affect life and health of different species of animals, both immediately af
This paper explores the boundaries of the Hmong community as measured by different categories in 2000 U.S.census data.Following careful assessment of detailed Census data, the authors conclude that the usual criterion used to identify a person in the data as Hmong is too narrow, and that a broader, more inclusive Shotgun Cleaning Kit definition mor
Paranoplocephala etholeni n.sp., parasitizing the meadow vole Microtus pennsylvanicus in Alaska and Wisconsin, USA is described.Paranoplocephala etholeni is Dog morphologically most closely related to the Nearctic Paranoplocephala ondatrae (Rausch, 1948).Available data suggest that P.etholeni is a host-specific, locally rare species that may have a
A majority of the morbidity and mortality associated with the genetic disease Cystic Fibrosis (CF) is due to lung disease resulting from chronic respiratory infections.The CF airways become chronically colonized with bacteria in childhood, and over time commensal lung microbes are displaced by bacterial pathogens, leading to a decrease in microbial
Juan Manuel Reséndiz-Hernández,1 Enrique Ambrocio-Ortiz,1 Gloria Pérez-Rubio,1 Luis Alberto López-Flores,1 Edgar Abarca-Rojano,2 Gandhi Fernando Pavón-Romero,3 Fernando Flores-Trujillo,4 Rafael de Jesús Hernández-Zenteno,4 Ángel Camarena,1 Martha Pérez-Rodríguez,5 Ana Marí