The Chinese fauna of the family Gasteruptiidae is revised, keyed and fully illustrated for the first time. Only one genus of this family, Gasteruption Latreille, 1796, is recorded from China. In total 28 valid species of the genus Gasteruption are recognized. Six species are new to science (Gasteruption angulatumsp. n., Gasteruption assectoidessp. n., Gasteruption coloratumsp. n., Gasteruption ...

In 1958, Corbu advocated a ‘new architecture’ for a ‘new man’. The omnipresence of the architect creating spaces to model a society led to architects building many sins. After that the influence of architecture in the lives of its inhabitants began to be a subject ignored. A lot of contemporary architecture limited itself to the production of design or service to capital of the day. In 1...

Myocarditis has long been recognized as a complication of rheumatic fever, diphtheria, scarlet fever and whooping cough. It also occurs in association with poliomyelitis and more rarely with other virus infections such as influenza, mumps, psittacosis, infectious mononucleosis, primary atypical pneumonia, varicella, measles, infectious hepatitis and yellow fever (Lyon, 1956; Silber, 1958). Myoc...

Previous chapters considered the problems of information retrieval experiment in general, and particular types of experiment. This chapter looks at information retrieval experiment over the last twenty years as a whole, to see what the actual tests which have been carried out show. I shall not attempt an exhaustive review of this work. I shall seek rather to characterize it by referring on the ...

Bornholm disease has been recognized for over a hundred years, and had been described by authors from many parts of the world, for example: Daae (1872) in Sweden, Finsen (1874) in Iceland, Dabney (1888) in the U.S.A., Williamson et al. (1924) and Pickles (1933) in England, Sylvest (1934) in Denmark, Scadding (1946) in Egypt, Hamburger and McNeil (1947) in India, and many others. In fact the dis...

To better define infectious diseases of concern in Thailand, trends in the mortality rate during 1958-2009 were analyzed by using data from public health statistics reports. From 1958 to the mid-1990s, the rate of infectious disease-associated deaths declined 5-fold (from 163.4 deaths/100,000 population in 1958 to 29.5/100,000 in 1997). This average annual reduction of 3.2 deaths/100,000 popula...