This supplement contains papers on the impact of emerging diseases on global travel. The topics covered are: travel vaccines; traveller's diarrhoea; childhood vaccination; prevention, control and surveillance of severe acute respiratory syndrome; diagnosis of dengue; chikungunya infection; sea, air ...

The participation of citizens in science projects has been increasing over the past two decades and has proven to be of great importance for biological research, specially for obtaining essential biodiversity data. Citizen science participation can be greatly improved through information and ...

Data sources on species distribution and range are typically expensive and time consuming to build, and traditional survey techniques often have spatial, temporal, or scale-related gaps. Social network sites, on the other hand, can provide massive amounts of cost effective data that may potentially ...

Biopiracy is a problem that refers to the appropriation of the intellectual property of traditional knowledge and biodiversity. In this research it is proposed to develop the visualization and mapping of the biopiracy of traditional medicines in the social network Twitter using digital methods. In...

This 2-volume text offers a broad overview of infectious diseases in a well-written, user-friendly fashion, covering pathogenesis, epidemiology, clinical manifestations, treatment and prevention. It includes 330 chapters organized into 4 parts. The first volume includes Parts I and II, while the...

This study examined the supply chain of kelp thallus medicinal herbal substance for the pharmaceutical industry of the Russian Federation (from Arkhangelsk and Sakhalin), as well as the territory of China. Based on the systemic research method and the information and analytical method, various...

Plants are the basis of life on Earth as we know it and the study of plants is essential to protect our future. Yet botany and plant science are in crisis and suffer a low uptake at the level of undergraduate degrees. Increasing science communication about exciting advances in our knowledge of...

Green urban infrastructure, which serves the interests of both human and nature, are considered as essential assets of urban residents. However, measuring the use of green space has been problematic. Because, most previously used data on measuring green space use are self-reported or collected via...

Understanding spatial patterns of visitation and benefits accrued to different types of natural and cultural heritage tourists may have important implications for the sustainable management of their destinations. We investigate cultural services accrued to local, domestic and international visitors ...

Purpose: Hyderabad City today is a blend of metro and heritage causing much dilemma to what it offers the visitors. A mixture of the "Nawabi - the good old days city" and "information technology hub - a new metropolitan city," has changed the perception of the city. This has blurred the vision of...