A recent epidemic of malaria in the highlands of Bolivia and establishment of multiple Anopheles species mosquitoes in the highlands of Ecuador highlights the reemergence of malaria in the Andes Mountains in South America. Because malaria was endemic to many highland valleys at the beginning of the 20th century, this review outlines the 20th century history of malaria in the highlands of Ecuado...

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsc.2014.07.001 1369-8486/ 2014 Published by Elsevier Ltd. q The conference from which this special section derives was supported by a Wellcome Trust Award [grant 088708]. The editors would like to thank the ‘Tran Pregnancy Since 1900’ conference participants, the ‘Generation to Reproduction’ project at the University of Cambridge—and especially Nick Hopwood—for he...

This paperback comprises a series of photographs and simple line drawings which illustrate the testing of individual muscles and the distribution of sensory loss in peripheral nerve lesions. The book is beautifully illustrated with excellent photographs demonstrating techniques for testing muscle power and indicating the peripheral nerve and cord segments responsible for innervation. The diagra...

A sensitive and selective liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (LC–MS/MS) method for determination of meropenem in rabbit plasma was developed. After addition of triazolam as internal standard (IS), protein precipitation by acetonitrile was used in sample preparation. Chromatographic separation was achieved on a Restek Allure (TM) PFP Propyl (2.1 mm × 100 mm, 5 μm) column with acetoni...

C. R. SEARLE, Eugenics and politics in Britain 1900-1914, Leyden, Noordhof International Publishing, 1976, 8vo, pp. viii, 147, Dfl. 45.00. Francis Galton (1822-1911) coined the word "eugenics", which he defined as, "the study of agencies under social control that may improve or impair the racial qualities of future generations either physically or mentally". Its objective was the increase of th...

The Library Series of the peer-reviewed, full-text, and open-access quarterly in the humanities and the social sciences CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture publishes scholarship in the humanities and social sciences following tenets of the discipline of comparative literature and the field of cultural studies designated as "comparative cultural studies." Publications in the CLCWeb Librar...

The soft-gamma repeater SGR 1900+14 became active on 18 April 2001 after about two years of quiescence; it had remained at a very low state of activity since the fall of 1998, when it exhibited extraordinary flaring. We have observed the source in the gamma and X rays with Ulysses and Chandra , and in the radio with MERLIN. We report here the confirmation of a two component X-ray spectrum (powe...

The taxonomic history of Trigona latitarsis Friese, 1900 and its clarification based on the observation of the types and literature data are treated in this study. The paper discusses the validity of the previously proposed lectotype, deposited in the ZMB (Berlin, Germany). Based on the type series deposited in HNHM (Budapest, Hungary) as well as the original description, a new lectotype and 15...

The period of British rule from 1757 to 1900 is marked by major sociopolitical changes and scientific breakthroughs that impacted medical systems, institutions, and practitioners in India. In addition, historians have debated whether the colonial regime used Western medicine as a tool to expand and legitimize its rule. This paper reviews the secondary literature on this subject with emphasis on...

Using a newly constructed individual-level dataset, we analyze the relative incarceration probabilities of native and foreign-born men between 1900 and 1930. We find that the foreign-born were less likely to be incarcerated than natives even after controlling for age and literacy. However, immigrants assimilated rapidly to the incarceration patterns of the native born. The likelihood that an im...