A new species, Protaphorura genheensis sp. nov., and two new records, Protaphorura taimyrica (Martynova, 1976) and Protaphorura kaszabi (Dunger, 1978) are reported from northeast China. New localities for P. bicampata are presented. P. genheensis sp. nov. belongs to the 'oligopseudocellar' group as having fewer pso on Th. II-III and can be distinguished by the dorsal pso formula, number of pso ...

The wharf roach Ligia exotica is a small animal that lives by the sea and absorbs water from the sea through its legs by virtue of a remarkable array of small blades of micron scale. We find that the imbibition dynamics on the legs is rather complex on a microscopic scale, but on a macroscopic scale the imbibition length seems to simply scale linearly with elapsed time. This unusual dynamics of...

Amemboa mahananda sp. nov. and Amemboa bifurcata sp. nov. are described from Mahananda Wildlife Sanctuary, in the Darjeeling district and from Kalikhola, in the Jalpaiguri district of West Bengal, and compared with all allied species. A species checklist of the genus Amemboa Esaki, 1925  and Amemboides Polhemus & Andersen, 1984 from India and their distribution in India and elsewhere is provide...

F. DELAVOIE,a D. MCINTOSH,b F. HENAO,c G. PERANZI,a P. CHAMPEIL,d D. STOKES,e AND J-J. LACAPÈREa, aINSERM U410, 75870 Paris, France bDepartment of Chemical Pathology, Universtiy of Cape Town Medical School, Cape Town, South Africa cBioquímica y Biología Molecular, Universidad de Extremadura, 06080 Badajoz, Spain dCNRS U2096, SBFM/DBJC, CEA-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France eSkirball Institut...

We describe a new species from the genus Trevathana Anderson, 1992, collected from the Cocos/Keeling Islands in the Indian Ocean. Trevathana noae sp. nov. is similar to other species of Trevathana by its external shell and opercular valve morphology. It is distinct from congeners in that the tergum has a distinct spur which lacks an internal tooth in adult specimens. A key to the known species ...

CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVE Clinical trial registration is a prerequisite for publication in respected scientific journals. Recent Brazilian regulations also require registration of some clinical trials in the Brazilian Clinical Trials Registry (ReBEC) but there is little information available about practical issues involved in the registration process. This article discusses the importance of clinic...

This paper presents the Copa 2014 FrameNet Brasil software (C-14/FN-Br): a frame-based trilingual electronic dictionary covering the domains of Football, Tourism and the World Cup. The dictionary relies on the infrastructure of FrameNet and is meant to be used by tourists, journalists and the staff involved in receiving foreign visitors. Vocabulary from the three domains is made available in En...

The aim of the present study was to provide new spirometry reference equations in a sample of the Brazilian population for the following parameters: forced vital capacity (FVC), forced expiratory volume in 1 second (FEV1), FEV1/FVC ratio, peak of expiratory flow (PEF), forced expiratory flow at 50% (FEF50%), 75% average vital capacity (FEF25-75%), and average forced expiratory flow time (FEFT)....

During botanical expeditions between 2010 and 2015, as part of a taxonomic study of Manihot in the Midwest region of Brazil, approximately 500 specimens of the genus were collected. Some of these specimens presented similarities to Manihot irwinii. However, after careful morphological analyses, associated with genetic evidence, we propose here Manihot pulchrifolius as a new species. The new spe...