A new family with syndactyly type II or synpolydactyly is described with 16 affected members in six generations. No other major skeletal or extraskeletal malformations were present, but the association with minor local anomalies may be a common feature. Various metacarpal or metatarsal abnormalities may be part of this type of syndactyly. The family pedigree confirms the autosomal dominant mode...

The factors most often cited as the causes of the California crisis are the scarcity of generation capacity, a flawed market design, and the venality of electricity producers. However, many of these attributes were present in other electricity markets, none of which have suffered through anything like the California crisis. The only factor not seen in other markets in the world is the lack of c...

Trichogramma ostriniae Pang and Chen (Hymenoptera: Trichogrammatidae) was reared continuously for seven generations on its native host, the Asian corn borer,Ostrinia furnacalis (Guenée) (Lepidoptera: Crambidae). It took 6.7 d at 33 C and 20 d at 17 C from oviposition to adult emergence with no differences between sexes. Several theoretic models were used to Þt the temperature-dependent growth c...

generation mean analysis was carried out to estimate the nature andmagnitude of gene effects for sugar yield and its component traits in sweet sorghum[sorghum bicolor (l.) moench. six basic generations, namely p1, p2, f1, f2,bc1p1, bc1p2 of four crosses involving seven diverse parents were evaluated inrainy 2009. the mean performance of the f1 in all the crosses indicated dominantgene effect fo...

Six cases of translocation trisomy for the distal half of the short arm of a number 9 chromosome and four asymptomatic balanced translocation carriers are presented in a three-generation pedigree. The clinical features are remarkably similar to those recently recognized and increasingly reported in full short arm (9p) trisomy and should be considered a modification of the same syndrome. In addi...

A six-legged robot will have to find a collision-free, timeminimal path and to plan its stable gait in optimal sense (with minimum number of ground-legs having the maximum average kinematic margin) while moving on flat terrain. Three steps are to be considered for legged-robot locomotion determination of vehicle’s trajectory, foothold selection, and design of a sequence of leg movements. In pra...

families readily able to call in a doctor. Certainly data from the 1920s gathered by Taylor hint that this was commonplace, as it was elsewhere. A fuller discussion on factors behind usage would also be instructive, if only because Hatfield states that with the advent of the National Health Service the need for domestic medicine "largely disappeared". This, surely, is only one consideration; re...