Cytochrome b (cyt b) gene complete sequences (1143bp) of Takydromus sylvaticus were sequenced. In order to clarify the phylogenetic position of the Takydromus sylvaticus, we investigated the phylogeny of 15 Takydromus spp. distributed in East-Asia by Maximum Parsimony (MP), Bayesian Inference (BI), and Maximum Likelihood (ML) methods using DNA fragments of cyt b genes. The results supported tha...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of dietary supplementation with Agaricus sylvaticus medicinal fungus in fasting glycemia of post-surgery patients with colorectal cancer. SCOPE Proctology Ambulatory of Federal District Base Hospital-Brazil. SUBJECTS Fifty-six colorectal cancer patients in postsurgery phase, stadiums phase I, II and II, which followed specifi...

Dicopuslongipes (Subba Rao) (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Mymaridae) is recorded from India for the first time. New additional distribution records of Mymaridae from the southern Indian states of Tamil Nadu and Kerala are documented.

The present study is aimed at studying the relationship between Social Maturity, School Adjustment and levels of Academic achievement among residential school girl students. The study was conducted on a sample of 347 girls from class ix –xii at an all girls residential school of North India. Dr. Nalini Rao’s Social Maturity Scale (RSMS) was used to measure social maturity, Sinha & Singh’s Adjus...

Can Physicians Identify Inappropriate Nuclear Stress Tests?: An Examination of Inter-Rater Reliability for the 2009 Appropriate Use Criteria for Radionuclide Imaging Siqin Ye, MD, MS; LeRoy E. Rabbani, MD; Christopher R. Kelly, MD; Maureen R. Kelly, MD; Matthew Lewis, MD; Yehuda Paz, MD; Clara L. Peck, MD; Shaline Rao, MD; Sabahat Bokhari, MD; Shepard D. Weiner, MD; Andrew J. Einstein, MD, PhD ...

Helminth parasites were studied in the wood mouse, Apodemus sylvaticus, in southern England in September of each of four successive years (1994-1997). Nine species of helminths were recorded: five nematodes (Heligmosomoides polygyrus, Syphacia stroma, Pelodera strongyloides, Trichuris muris, Capillaria murissylvatici), two cestodes (Microsomacanthus crenata, Taenia taeniaeformis) and two tremat...

Migration of persons affected by leprosy was hinted at as early as 1929 (Bhaskara Rao 1930). All new cases of leprosy in Isfahan Province (Iran) were found to be migrants (Asilian et al 2005). Chudasama (2007) suspected increase in leprosy cases in Surat district to migration. These suggest migration contributes to new cases. This study was done to find out 1. Extent of migration among new case...

The data used in this paper was collected by NCAER under a project jointly supervised by Sonalde Desai and Vijayendra Rao with funding from the Rockefeller Foundation. We are indebted to Sonalde Desai for her contribution to the survey and sampling design, and thank NCAER and the Rockefeller Foundation for their input and support. The analysis for the paper was partially funded by the Gender Di...

There has been a steep deterioration in State finances during the last decade as evidenced by sharp increases in revenue, fiscal and primary deficits, increases in their indebtedness and contingent liabilities, and decline in capital and maintenance expenditures. Low buoyancy of central transfers and spillover of central pay revisions have had the most adverse impact on State finances. However,...