Anthropological Notes on New Guinea.

Guinea-Worm Disease: Case Notes

Notes on the Use of Mist-nets for Surveying Birds in a Lowland New Guinea Forest

Mist-netting is frequently used to sample the species richness and diversity of bird communities in New Guinea, but its effectiveness and potential biases are poorly known. The study analyzed mist-netting data from survey points in a mature tropical lowland forest to assess patterns in quantity and diversity of species and its overall description of a bird community, particularly those resultin...

Notes on the high elevation mammal fauna of the Kaijende Highlands, Enga Province, Papua New Guinea

Renewed mammal survey efforts in high elevation forests and subalpine habitats in the Kaijende Highlands, undertaken in July 2008, recorded 17 species of mammals (9 marsupials, 7 rodents, 1 bat) primarily on the basis of small mammal trapping, mistnetting, and examination of bones and teeth recovered from caves. At least two of these species, a bandicoot (Microperoryctes) and a pygmy possum (Ce...

New Species of the Fern Genus Lindsaea (Lindsaeaceae) from New Guinea with Notes on the Phylogeny of L. sect. Synaphlebium

To determine the taxonomic identities and the systematic positions of some collections of Lindsaea sect. Synaphlebium (Lindsaeaceae) from Papua New Guinea, we conducted morphological comparisons and phylogenetic analyses on the whole section. A total of 22 morphological characters were selected and coded for each of all known taxa in L. sect. Synaphlebium, and were analyzed using maximum parsim...

Anthropological analysis of taekwondo--new methodological approach.

The aim of this research is to determine the order and importance of impacts of particular anthropological characteristics and technical and tactical competence on success in taekwondo according to opinions of top taekwondo instructors (experts). Partial objectives include analysis of metric characteristics of the measuring instrument, and determining differences between two disciplines (sparri...