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Gomi et al. [4] studied patients with diarrhea acquired in India, Mexico, Jamaica and Kenya, Sierra et al. [5] studied diarrhea in travelers returning to Spain from multiple locations, and DuPont et al. [6] studied patients with diarrhea acquired in Mexico. EAEC = Enteroaggrega-tiveJT. coli. [Pg.74]

Baron Alexander von Humboldt, 1769-1859. German naturalist and traveler. Author of Kosmos and Political Essay on New Spain. Friend of Fausto de Elhuyar and A. M. del Rio. See also ref. (30). [Pg.293]

Baron Alexander von Humboldt, 1769-1859. German naturalist and traveler. His Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America between 1799 and 1844 and his Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Spain are a rich source of information on the history of chemistry in Latin America. He introduced the Peruvian fertilizer guano to European agricultural chemists. Because of the breadth of his interests he had an unusually clear understanding of the interrelationships of the various branches of... [Pg.390]

The fluids that have evolved as a result of the bentonite-groundwater interactions will contact the canister on their travel towards the spent fuel matrix. Most of the proposed canister materials in different countries have in common the presence of Fe in the system, either as cast iron (Sweden, Finland) or as stainless steel (France, Spain). While the bentonite-groundwater processes have... [Pg.519]

This work was principally supported by a grant from the General Electric Co. The studies also were partly supported by grant DMR75-05004 from the National Science Foundation, grants from the Army Research Office and from the Materials Research Laboratory of the University of Massachusetts. One of us (A.E.) appreciates the travel support from the International Commission for Cultural Exchange between the United States and Spain. We would like to express also our appreciation to E. Balizer who obtained the calorimetry measurements. [Pg.477]

The Arab conquerors of the Iberian peninsula wasted no time in establishing local mills for the production of paper and by the middle of the twelfth century, papermaking was an industry in the Spanish cities of Xativa (or Jativa) and Toledo. An early reference to papermills in Spain is found in the writings of traveler Abu "Abdallah Muhammad al-Idrisi. Describing Xativa in a.d. 1150, he wrote Schatiba is a charming town with castles whose beauty and strength have become proverbial. Paper is there prepared as nowhere else in the civilized universe and is sent both East and West (3). [Pg.44]

If you traveled to Italy, Spain, the south of France, Greece, and throughout Asia, you d enjoy the wonderful native cuisines. Those foods happen to be some of the best in the world for heart health in general and for blood pressure control in particular. As an appetizer in Italy you might munch on bruschetta, crusty bread topped with olive oil, garlic, and chopped tomatoes and basil. In... [Pg.256]

This section considers the life cycles, disease and pathology of some blood and tissue parasites this is not an exhaustive list but covers some of the most important species. These diseases are commonly associated with travel to tropical and subtropical countries, but diseases such as leishmaniasis are frequently seen in southern Spain and France. It should also be noted that climate change is altering the geographical distribution of many parasitic diseases. [Pg.83]

Ibn al-Baytar was bom in Malaga in Spain, apparently the son of wealthy parents for he was able to afford to travel to far-off lands. Generally, the early sightseers in the Arab world left home to make the honored pilgrimage to the holy cities of Mecca and Medina. This was a religious duty required of every Moslem, but the farther away from these holy shrines, the more difficult was such an undertaking. For those who could afford the pilgrimage, however, the trip offered a wonderful opportunity to visit other countries and meet new people. [Pg.25]

In 1851, heartbroken over the death of his wife of three months and exhausted from overwork, Taylor left the United States to travel in the Middle and Far East. It was during this time that he first became acquainted with hashish, an experience he described for his readers in two of his books, A Journey to Central Africa (1854) and The Land of the Saracens or, Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain (1855). [Pg.86]

Urquhart, D. The pillars of Hercules or A narrative of travels in Spain and Morocco in 1848. New York Harper Bros., 1855. [Pg.140]

European explorers, more recent archeological evidence suggests that trade and travel were more extensive in the ancient world than was previously thought. In particular, the rise and spread of Islam after 800 c.E. led to an extensive network of trade and information exchange that reached as far as Indonesia in the east and Spain in the west. [Pg.20]

Immediately after posting the letter Haber traveled to a conference of the International Chemical Union in Santander, on the northern coast of Spain. Einstein s dismissive reply reached him there. I m especially glad. .. that your earlier love for the blond beast has cooled off a bit. Who would have thought that my dear Haber would appear before me as an advocate of the Jewish— and even Palestine s—cause Einstein refused Haber s appeal to meet with Weizmann he had no desire to listen to more of the old fox s lies. He hoped Haber never would return to Germany, where the intellectual class is made up of men who lie on their bellies before common criminals, and even sympathize with those... [Pg.229]

But before they left, he came back to the boy and said, "You re not going to die. You ll live, and you ll leam that a man shouldn t be so stupid. Two years ago, right here on this spot, I had a recurrent dream, too. I dreamed that I should travel to the fields of Spain and look for a mined church where shepherds and their sheep slept. In my dream, there was a... [Pg.86]

In 1979, the Nobel Prize in Physics, awarded for a theory of unified weak and electromagnetic interactions between elementary particles, was shared by three scientists Sheldon Glashow, Steven Weinberg, and Abdus Salam, two Jews born in New York and a Moslem bom in Pakistan. Salam s Nobel Prize lecture was particularly beautiful. He told of a young Scotsman named Michael who, almost eight centuries earlier, had traveled to study at the Arab Universities of Toledo and Cordova in Spain, centers for the finest synthesis of Arabic,... [Pg.106]


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