SPATIO-TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION OF INJURED ELEPHANTS IN MASAI MARA AND THE PUTATIVE NEGATIVE AND POSITIVE ROLES OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY.

Spatio-temporal distribution of injured elephants in Masai Mara and the putative negative and positive roles of the local community.

BACKGROUND: Very few studies have ever focused on the elephants Fridge Door Hinge Spring that are wounded or killed as local communities attempt to scare these animals away from their settlements and farms, or on the cases in which local people take revenge after elephants have killed or injured humans.On the other hand, local communities live in c

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Increased meaningful activity while social distancing dampens affectivity; mere busyness heightens it: Implications for well-being during COVID-19.

Social distancing measures have been implemented in many countries to limit the spread of COVID-19.Emerging literature reveals that fear of acquiring COVID-19 has detrimental psychological ramifications.However, it seems likely that social distancing will have a further negative impact on well-being.The focus of this study was therefore to investig

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FunctSNP: an R package to link SNPs to functional knowledge and dbAutoMaker: a suite of Perl scripts to build SNP databases

Abstract Background Whole genome association studies using highly dense single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are a set of methods to identify DNA markers associated with variation in a particular complex trait of interest.One Tumblers of the main outcomes from these studies is a subset of statistically significant SNPs.Finding the potential biolo

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In vitro activity of cefoperazone and cefoperazone-sulbactam against carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii and Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Chih-Cheng Lai,1 Chi-Chung Chen,2,3 Ying-Chen Lu,3 Yin-Ching Chuang,2,4 Hung-Jen Tang5,6 1Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Chi Mei Medical Center, Liouying, Tainan, Taiwan; 2Department of Medical Research, Chi Mei Medical Center, Tainan, Taiwan; 3Department of Food Science, National Chiayi University, Chiayi, Taiwan; 4Department of Internal M

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