OBJECTIVE: The homicide rate for children and adolescents in Recife, Brazil,mostly caused by firearms, is one of the highest that has been reported.The present case-control study was designed to identify factors that were potentially modifiable through preventive interventions.METHODS: Cases were 255 homicide victims under 20 years of age, who had

This article focuses u motion bowling ball on translation strategy of idiom in comic Garfield Goes to and its translation.It is expected to identify translation strategies and to know the pattern of translation strategies in translating the idiomatic expression.This research belongs to descriptive qualitative.The source of data is a comic entitled

Inadequate cleaning and disinfection (C&D) in slaughterhouses can cause bacterial contamination of meat, resulting in foodborne disease and reduced meat quality.Different methods for monitoring the efficacy of C&D procedures are available, but few studies have assessed their reliability.This study examined C&D efficacy in slaughterhouses and evalua

In this study, we explored the developmental characteristics of Pinellia ternate bulbils as well as the key gene networks driving the development of bulbils.Based on physiological and biochemical reactions as well as transcriptome technology, this study determined the content of endogenous metabolites and related enzyme activities during the five g

Measurement of human faces is fundamental to many applications from recognition to genetic phenotyping.While anthropometric landmarks provide a conventional set of homologous measurement points, digital scans are increasingly used for facial measurement, despite the difficulties in establishing their homology.We introduce an alternative basis for f