To date, no studies have been conducted of potential rickettsiae in Italian ticks, other than Rhipicephalus spp. Recently, various Rickettsia species have been found in I. ricinus from other European countries, including R. helvetica in Switzerland, France, Sweden, Slovenia, and Portugal (4) and Rickettsia spp. IRS3/4 in Slovakia (9).
And it has expanded the number of investigations it conducts of potential harassment of employees who have raised safety concerns.
Surveys are being conducted of 10 potential sites, mostly in southeastern Turkey, each of which could be defended by one or more Patriot batteries.
Few studies have been conducted of the potential future health impacts of climate change under different climate change scenarios.
This act required, in part, that periodic national assessments be conducted of the potential consequences of climate variability and change on the nation's health.
Following the ecologic model of physical activity behavior, a systematic review was conducted of studies investigating potential determinants of change in physical activity in children and adolescents.
Some officials are now saying they need broader authority to conduct surveillance of potential terrorists, no matter where they are.
But prosecutors argued that the officer took actual steps to further his plot, like conducting surveillance of potential victims.
The Social Safety Ministry, the country's police force, is among North Korea's most powerful agencies, maintaining prisons, conducting investigations of potential opponents of the regime, and protecting leading officials.
Prosecutors have said that Officer Valle was plotting real crimes, and that he also took concrete steps outside of the computer, like conducting surveillance of potential victims, to bring his plans to fruition.
Prosecutors have charged that Officer Valle plotted his crimes through Internet chats and other electronic messages exchanged on a fetish Web site, and that he took other steps, like conducting surveillance of potential victims, to bring his plans to fruition.
