South Africa has a rich spider fauna with 66 families represented by more than 5 000 species.In the past two decades both specialists and laymen have shown considerable interest in spiders.Although scientific names of the different species are available, these are usually known only to specialists.For the layman the scientific name has little meani
The scale-up of HIV services in sub-Saharan Africa has catalyzed the development of highly effective chronic care systems.The strategies, systems, and tools developed to support life-long HIV care and treatment are locally owned contextually appropriate resources, many of which could be adapted to support continuity care for noncommunicable chronic
Today, with the advent of digital imagery, the volume of digital images has been growing rapidly in different fields.So, there is an increasing need for providing an effective image retrieval system.In this paper, a semisupervised k-means clustering method was introduced for image database clustering and image annotation.One of the most important p
Abstract Background Endozoicomonas bacteria symbiosis with various marine organisms is hypothesized as a potential indicator of health in Hayward SP0710 - SP0712 Parts corals.Although many amplicon analyses using 16S rRNA gene have suggested the diversity of Endozoicomonas species, genome analysis has been limited due to contamination of host-deriv
Ixodes persulcatus, Ixodes pavlovskyi, and Dermacentor reticulatus ticks inhabiting Western Siberia are responsible for the transmission of a number of etiological agents that cause human and animal tick-borne diseases.Because these ticks are abundant in the suburbs of large cities, agricultural areas, and popular tourist sites and frequently attac