While New York is up in arms about recently disclosed sales tax evasion (Business Day, June 5), it refuses to join the majority of states working to streamline the thousands of different state and local tax systems, thereby permitting greater cooperation in exchanging information and mutual collection assistance.
Secretarial assistance by V. Brown, and collection assistance by P. Fenton is also greatly appreciated.
We thank K. E. Zelik for data collection assistance and technical comments.
We thank Sandra Li for exceptional plant care and data collection assistance.
Data collection assistance was provided for three-fourths of surveys.
Both AB and BC EDs agreed to participate and provide data collection assistance.
We would like to acknowledge Dr. YH Wang for subject recruitment assistance, Mr. Li-Hsueh Chen for data collection assistance, the support of Grant no.
We would also like to thank Dr. Donatien Twizelimana and Mrs. Jacqueline Nkhoma for data collection assistance, and Ibrahimu Mdala and Lien My Diep for statistical assistance.
The pre-publication history for this paper can be accessed here: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-230X/14/70/prepub The authors thank Guan-zhen Yu, Chen Ying, Xi Wang, Jun Pan, Ke Liu and Zhou Zhou for the follow-up information collection assistance.
We thank the entomological staff of the Malaria Research and Training Center for logistical support during field collections and assistance with karyotyping.
We thank the staff from provincial and county CDCs for sample collection and assistance.
