The authors evaluate the effect of rehabilitation on the temporal and masseter muscles of the elevator mandible. Parallel studies were con­ ducted on the status of occlusion and dental arch and cephalometric analysis of the physiognomy was performed to evaluate the recovery of the mimical muscles in 31 hemiplegic patients. A significant difference in the EMG activity of the masticatory muscles ...

The aim of this Hypothesis and Theory is to question the recently increasing use of the "race" concept in contemporary genetic, psychiatric, neuroscience as well as social studies. We discuss "race" and related terms used to assign individuals to distinct groups and caution that also concepts such as "ethnicity" or "culture" unduly neglect diversity. We suggest that one factor contributing to t...

Prior to deforestation, São Paulo State had 79,000 km(2) covered by Cerrado (Brazilian savanna) physiognomies, but today less than 8.5% of this biodiversity hotspot remains, mostly in private lands. The global demand for agricultural goods has imposed strong pressure on natural areas, and the economic decisions of agribusiness managers are crucial to the fate of Cerrado domain remaining areas (...

Encroachment of woody plants into grasslands, and subsequent brush management, are among the most prominent changes to occur in arid and semiarid systems over the past century. Despite the resulting widespread changes in landcover, substantial uncertainty about the biogeochemical impacts of woody proliferation and brush management exists. We explored the role of shrub encroachment and brush man...

Flies from the Drosophilidae family are model organisms for biological studies and are often suggested as bioindicators of environmental quality. The Araucaria Forest, one of Atlantic Forest phyto-physiognomy, displays a highly fragmented distribution due to the expansion of agriculture and urbanization. Thus, this work aimed to evaluate and compare the drosophilid assemblages from two highland...

Tibet makes up the majority of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, often referred to as the roof of the world. Its complex landforms, physiognomy, and climate create a special heterogeneous environment for mosses. Each moss species inhabits its own habitat and ecological niche. This, in combination with its sensitivity to environmental change, makes moss species distribution a useful indicator of vegeta...

Lesions observed in chronic chagasic cardiopathy frequently produce electrocardiographic alterations and affect cardiac function. Through a computerized morphometrical analysis we quantified the areas occupied by cardiac muscle, connective and adipose tissues in the right atrium of dogs experimentally infected with Trypanosoma cruzi. All of the infected dogs showed chronic myocarditis with vari...

psychological approach to literature is one of the approaches through which one can examine author’s mind and personality. since tārikh-e bayhaqi includes the main sequence of bayhaqi’s personal, social and professional events, one can read it as a sort of autobiographical text and through psychological analysis, discover many significant features of the author’s personality. the theoretical fr...

Abstract This article investigates Jane Austen's network of bodily metaphors in Persuasion , re‐examining ‘bloom’ the context its pair, ‘ruin’. While novel is traditionally understood as a progress narrative that moves from Anne's self‐description being ‘in ruins’ to restoration her ‘bloom’, examines inconsistency around appearance and throughout novel, contending rather than presenting progres...