Book 2021,Vanadium Chapter Nano- and Microdomain Engineering of Lithium Niobate and Lithium Tantalate for Piezoelectric Applications 6.1Introduction Lithium niobate(LiNbO3) and lithiumtantalate(LiTaO3) crystals are not encountered in nature and are manmade. Thesingle crystalsof LiNbO3and LiTaO3were synthe...
Finally, the virus that first appeared on the medical world's radar in high risk populations in the USA made an extraordinary journey there: from African monkeys, then to the apes that preyed upon them, then onto human beings in central Africa and beyond. Show moreView chapter Book 2008, ...
thyone. These are relatively small bats (6–16 g) known from southeastern Nicaragua through northwestern Ecuador (V. nymphaea); from southern Mexico through Central America to Bolivia, Peru, Venezuela, and the Guyanas (V. thyone); and in eastern Paraguay and southeastern Brazil (V. pusilla)....
Explore book 14.5 Energy and exergy analyses of a hydrogen liquefaction plant Hydrogen liquefaction is one of the most significant processes in storing hydrogen as a liquid. This process requires a significant input of power, which raises the cost of the final product. The present case study follo...
Attempts at cultivation have been made in parts of the Amazon (Mori, 1992), but production is low, and to date there are no examples of economically successful plantations (Mori, 1992; Silverton, 2004). View chapterExplore book Brazil Nuts (Bertholletia excelsa) Christine D. Thomson, in ...
View chapterExplore book A systematic review and meta-analysis of the prevalence of Leishmania infection in blood donors MasoudForoutan, ...GebraeilShamsaddin, inTransfusion and Apheresis Science, 2017 1Introduction Visceralleishmaniasis(VL) is a vector-borne infection caused by an obligate intracellul...
Explore book 15.2 Days of reckoning In recent times, some media outlets and public officials among others opposed to the occupation of Agbogbloshie graphically refer to the settlement as “Sodom and Gomorrah,” referencing the biblical city destroyed by God because its inhabitants were sinful. Thus...
Guyana 1527 India 28,134 Indonesia 28,134 Jamaica 9629 Kazakhstan 4683 Malaysia 27,700 Russia 5398 Saudi Arabia 2174 Suriname 1865 Venezuela 992 Other countries 8593 Total 2,94,076 Source: Indian Minerals Yearbook, 2016. Part III: Mineral Review, 55th edition, Government of India, Ministry of...
namely Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Guyana and Brazil. Around 893 million people in 52 countries worldwide remain threatened by lymphatic filariasis and require preventive chemotherapy to stop the spread of this vicious parasitic infection (Klion, 2019;Mathew et al., 2020;Bizhani et al., 2021)...
This is found from eastern Colombia east to Guyana. It is distinguished from all other members of the grey-neck group by its strongly contrasting orange dorsal stripe. Hands and feet are dark, face pattern very inconspicuous and underparts are orange. Malaria susceptibility and karyotype are not...