In Japan, asbestos was finally treated as a social issue in 2006, and a pleuropneumonectomy has been recently recognized as one of the effective treatments for malignant pleural mesothelioma. A pleuropneumonectomy for this disease was first performed by Wörn in 1974, followed by other reports made by Butchart et al., Rusch et al., and Sugarbaker et al. These reports include many problems, such ...

The bee-eaters (family Meropidae) comprise a group of brightly colored, but morphologically homogeneous, birds with a wide variety of life history characteristics. A phylogeny of bee-eaters was reconstructed using nuclear and mitochondrial DNA sequence data from 23 of the 25 named bee-eater species. Analysis of the combined data set provided a well-supported phylogenetic hypothesis for the fami...

The wealth of literature indicating that men are more physically aggressive than women may be the reason for the dearth of research on physical aggression in women. However, recent research has found that this discrepancy is better attributed to conformity to gender roles rather than to biological sex. The purpose of the present study was to assess the influence of masculine and feminine gender...

In the current context of climate change and landscape fragmentation, efficient conservation strategies require the explicit consideration of life history traits. This is particularly true for amphibians, which are highly threatened worldwide, composed by more than 7400 species, which is constitute one of the most species-rich vertebrate groups. The collection of information on life history tra...

We have identified, using composite interval mapping, quantitative trait loci (QTL) affecting a variety of life history traits (LHTs) in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. Using recombinant inbred strains assayed on the surface of agar plates, we found QTL for survival, early fertility, age of onset of sexual maturity, and population growth rate. There was no overall correlation between survi...

The repeated evolution of C4 photosynthesis in independent lineages has resulted in distinct biogeographical distributions in different phylogenetic lineages and the variants of C4 photosynthesis. However, most previous studies have only considered C3/C4 differences without considering phylogeny, C4 subtype, or habitat characteristics. We hypothesized that independent lineages of C4 grasses hav...

four fat-tailed ewes from an indoor flock (n=40) were examined for recumbency and depressive nervoussigns. they were from a seemingly nonpregnant group of the flock that had been diagnosed bytransabdominal ultrasonography. the ration consisted of mainly wheat straw since their separation from thepregnant group. detection of pregnancy on abdominal palpation along with depressive nervous signs an...

Abstract The evolutionary process involved the suffering of quadrillions sentient beings over millions years. I argue that when we take this into account, then it is likely first humans appeared, world was already at an enormous axiological deficit, and even on favorable assumptions about humanity, doubtful have overturned deficit or ever will. Even if there’s no such can overturn it, remains c...

The course of infection of a malaria parasite (Plasmodium mexicanum) is highly variable in its host, the fence lizard (Sceloporus occidentalis). However, a seasonal trend is superimposed on this variation such that gametocyte production is intensified during mid- to late summer. Host testosterone levels follow a similar seasonal fluctuation and are variable among individual lizards. We sought t...

monogenic traits has become nearly trivial, the molecular dissection of multifactorial traits—which include the majority of medically and agronomically important phenotypes—remains a major challenge. Despite the substantial resources that have been allocated to such efforts—particularly in human—a recent survey reported only 30 successful outcomes, all organisms confounded (Glazier et al. 2002)...