We extend by 300 m the known upper elevational range of Marsupial frog, Gastrotheca marsupiata (Dumeril & Bibron, 1841), to 4,660 a.s.l. This record makes G. highest occurring frog in its genus, which is already characterized high-elevation distributions. suggest that this may represent a case climate-induced shifting and discuss context our still limited understanding how amphibian dis...

Japanese pagodatree (Styphnolobium japonicum [L.] Schott) and American yellowwood (Cladrastis kentukea Dum.-Cours.) Rudd are the first woody, non-nodulating papilionoid legumes shown to possess putative early nodulin 2 (ENOD2) genes. ENOD2 cDNAs from Japanese pagodatree (807 bp) and American yellowwood (735 bp) have 75% to 79% sequence identity to ENOD2 sequences and encode deduced proteins tha...

The spatial scale on which microbial communities respond to plant invasions may provide important clues as to the nature of potential invader-microbe interactions. Lespedeza cuneata (Dum. Cours.) G. Don is an invasive legume that may benefit from associations with mycorrhizal fungi; however, it has also been suggested that the plant is allelopathic and may alter the soil chemistry of invaded si...

The transmission of the zoonotic pork tapeworms Taenia solium and T. asiatica depends on a combination of specific risk factors, such as open defecation, backyard pig raising and the consumption of raw or undercooked pork and viscera. A community-based survey was conducted among 289 households in south-eastern Nepal to study the heterogeneity of these risk factor frequencies as a function of th...

Richard Bright in 1827 described it as typhis fever with bowel complications. The typhus group of fevers was houn e y uncertain landmarks until Jenner in IBM nrs established the essential pathological difference, between typhus and typhoid fever, on the basis ?f the lesions in the small intestine. The clinical manifestations of the r0P ' fevers, with the many and varied comp ica 1 prevalent in ...

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The human orbit communicates with the middle cranial fossa through several canals and openings. Some of them (optic canal, superior orbital fissure) are constant, others (meningo-orbital foramen, Warwick's foramen, metoptic canal) are less frequent. Here we report a rare variation of the foramen rotundum which, opening into the orbit with a branching canal, represented a further connecting path...

As Jornadas de Ingeniería del Software y Bases de Datos têm vindo a consolidar-se como uma conferência de referência nas áreas de Engenharia de Software e de Bases de Dados onde investigadores e profissionais de Espanha, Portugal e Ibero América podem debater e trocar ideias, partilhar experiências e divulgar resultados, estabelecendo também um fórum propício para a colaboração entre os distint...