New distributional data on 33 species of the infraorder Leptopodomorpha (3 species of the family Leptopodidae and 30 species and subspecies of Saldidae) from the Palaearctic Region and Himalayas are provided. The following new or confirmed records are listed: Chartoscirta cocksii (Curtis, 1835) from Kosovo; Halosalda halophila (Jakovlev, 1876), Saldula amplicollis (Reuter, 1891) and Saldula xan...

But Doctor, it's only Jimmie's right eye that has the cast. Why must you operate on the other one as well? How often has a puzzled parent confronted us with that question and, before answering, who among us has ever wondered what brave man first grasped his courage and advanced his scalpel at the " good eye "? That man died almost one hundred years ago; he lived in the then remote town of Carli...

Typhus fever is no new disease in India. Anybody who has had occasion to refer to Dr. Bryden's Statistical Report, published in 1878, will, I think, feel convinced that some, at any rate, of the outbreaks described by him were instances of true typhus. In discussing the mortality from this disease which decimated many of the jails of India between 1859 and 1867, Dr. Bryden says : " It is in the...

Reforming the armed forces of Ukraine at current stage puts forward increased demands on officer personnel, their business, professional, general human and moral fighting qualities. Paying attention to priority importance professional training officers, it is necessary establish a spiritual connection between different generations Ukrainian officers in order attract young generation soldiers th...

1859 Efficacy of nonvenous medications for acute convulsive seizures: A network meta-analysis R. Arya, H. Kothari, Z. Zhang, B. Han, P.S. Horn, and T.A. Glauser Editorial, p. 183