A new fissiparous asterinid seastar Aquilonastra chantalae sp. nov. is described from Europa Island, one of the Scattered Islands (Les îles Éparses) in the Mozambique Channel. It is compared with the fissiparous asterinid Aquilonastra conandae O'Loughlin & Rowe from the Mascarene Islands. A table of distinguishing diagnostic characters is provided. The asterinid Aquilonastra richmondi O'Loughli...

To investigate the presence and structure of AbaR-type genomic islands (GIs) in non-Acinetobacter baumannii isolates, a total of 155 non-baumannii Acinetobacter isolates from a South Korean hospital were analyzed. GIs were found in three Acinetobacter nosocomialis and two Acinetobacter seifertii isolates. Their structures were similar to those in A. baumannii isolates from Asian countries, incl...

This article analyzes infanticide based on the Coroners' Records for Providence County, Rhode Island, from the 1870s to 1938 to determine doctors' and coroners' attitudes toward mothers who killed. The nineteenth century witnessed a medical discourse on the possibility of postpartum insanity as a cause of infanticide. While some women claimed temporary insanity, and some doctors and coroners le...

As an international organisation serving 22 Pacific Island countries and territories in the fields of marine, land and social resources, SPC needs to disseminate technical and grassroots information to its members and target groups throughout Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia. Effective information delivery is therefore a priority of the organisation. Because of the Pacific’s unique geographi...

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com B .pseudomalleus is capable of infecting almost anything because of the spectacular genetic structure, by possessing certain genomic island (GIs) that gives the ability to alteration and to adapt. The genes of this GIs play an important role in pathogenesis ability. Trains which cause disease in humans differ from those causing disease in other anim...

a Department of Biology, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, NL, Canada 5 A1B 3X9 6 b Centre for Veterinary Epidemiological Research, Department of Health Management, 7 Atlantic Veterinary College, University of Prince Edward Island, 550 University Avenue, 8 Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada C1A 4P3 9 c Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Memorial University of Newf...

ISTORY tive Hawaiians are descended from Polynesian mmunities that explored the Pacific Islands. Even with arrival of Westerners in the late 18th century, the tive Hawaiian population in Hawaii remained relatively ble at approximately 800,000 to 1 million (Tsark, ecial Communication, 2001). A hundred years later, wever, the population dwindled to nearly 40,000 due deaths from disease and war. I...

1 National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC, USA, 2 Marine Turtle Biology and Assessment Program, Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, NOAA Fisheries, Honolulu, HI, USA, 3 Director’s Office, Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, NOAA Fisheries, Honolulu, HI, USA, 4 Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA, 5 Division of Aquatic ...

1. Anatomical lesions of the pancreas occur in more than seven-eighths of all cases of diabetes mellitus. 2. In diabetes associated with lesions of the pancreas, the islands of Langerhans constantly show pathological changes (sclerosis, hyaline degeneration, infiltration with leucocytes and hypertrophy). 3. In some cases of pancreatic diabetes (twelve of ninety cases) the lesion of the pancreas...