Spatial distribution of heavy metals in soil, water, and vegetables of farms in Sanandaj, Kurdistan, Iran (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Heavy metals are ubiquitous elsewhere in nature and their measurement in environment is necessary to develop health management strategies. In this study, we aimed to find out concentration
Haemolytic activity in the blood clot of <em>Aedes aegypti</em> (Publications)
In the present study it was demonstrated that mosquito blood clots contain a haemolytic principle which achieves haemolysis of washed erythrocytes in an isotonic medium. Proteinases are thought to pla
Inputs for universal health coverage: a methodological contribution to finding proxy indicators for financial hardship due to health expenditure (Publications)
BackgroundUniversal health coverage is high on national health agendas of many countries at the moment. Absence of financial hardship is a key component of universal health coverage and should be moni
Reproducibility of functional connectivity and graph measures based on the Phase Lag Index (PLI) and weighted Phase Lag Index (wPLI) derived from high... (Publications)
Functional connectivity (FC) and graph measures provide powerful means to analyze complex networks. The current study determines the inter-subject-variability using the coefficient of variation (CoV)
Mechanoreceptor--trypanosome interactions in the labrum of <em>Glossina</em>: fluid mechanics (Publications)
The fluid mechanics of the flow of blood through the labrum of Glossina is described in uninfected and trypanosome infected flies. The flow is characterised by the Reynolds number, and a frequency par
<em>Mycobacterium africanum</em> is associated with patient ethnicity in Ghana (Publications)
Mycobacterium africanum is a member of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC) and an important cause of human tuberculosis in West Africa that is rarely observed elsewhere. Here we genotyped 61