The observations of homogeneous, intracellular inclusion bodies in association with Rickettsia orientalis were made during an investigation of scrub typhus in Imphal in 1945 and were submitted in reports to GHQ(I). Twenty-five strains of R orientalis were isolated from different sources. Similar observations have been made by Giroud and Panthier (1942) and Begg and others (1944) in association ...

This study, related to emergence of the cetoniid beetle, Chiloloba orientalis D and R (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae), was conducted annually from August to the middle of October from 2007 to 2010 in maize (Zea mays L. (Poales: Poaceae)), sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench), and grass (Hetropogon contortus (L.) P. Beauv. ex Roem. and Schult., Apluda mutica L.) cultivated fields in a se...

OBJECTIVE To study the cultural differences in moral disengagement, which lends support to attitudes used to justify violence. METHODS We carried out classroom surveys of a total of 3122 students in the USA (Houston, TX, and Washington, DC) and in four European countries--Estonia (Tartu), Finland (Helsinki), Romania (Satu Mare) and the Russian Federation (St Petersburg). Data were also taken ...

The water scavenger beetle genus Cymbiodyta Bedel contains 30 species (Jia & Short 2010, Short & Fikáček 2011), most of which are distributed in North America. Only one species (Cymbiodyta orientalis Jia & Short, 2010) has been described since the worldwide revision of the genus by Smetana (1974). This taxon was the second species of the genus known from the Old World and the first species know...

The identity of snakehead fishes (Perciformes: Channidae) in India, particularly species belonging to Channa gachua complex remains to be confusing due to clubbing of a number of species under the synonymy of Channa orientalis Bloch and Schneider by several authors including Talwar and Jhingran (1991), Jayaram (1999) and Menon (1999) as well. Courtenay and Williams (2004) considered most of the...

Biomolecular motors have inspired the design and construction of artificial nanoscale motors and machines based on nucleic acids, small molecules, and inorganic nanostructures. However, the high degree of sophistication and efficiency of biomolecular motors, as well as their specific biological function, derives from the complexity afforded by protein building blocks. Here, we discuss a novel b...