Four species of the genus Pseudopoda are recorded from southern China. Three new species are described: Pseudopoda bicruris sp. nov. (male, female; Hainan Province), Pseudopoda mediana sp. nov. (male, female; Hainan Province), Pseudopoda tiantangensis sp. nov. (male, female; Hubei Province). The female of Pseudopoda lushanensis (Wang, 1990) from Jiangxi Province is described for the first time.

In the era of information and communication the concept of identity is more fluid during the development of media and communications. Although this process in developing societies in slow compared with developed societies, but the point is that the mentioned process is an ongoing and structural patterns that lost their power for identification. The main subject of this study is the study on the...

17 World J Pediatr, Vol 9 No 1 . February 15, 2013 . www.wjpch.com Author Affiliations: Shanghai Institute for Pediatric Research, Xinhua Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200092, China (Chen HJ); The Second Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang 110004, Liaoning Province, China (Wei KL); Peking University First Hospital, Beijin...

In inland Croatia, Franciscan friars had been scattered across three multi-national provinces - the Croatian and Carniolan province in the west, the province of St Ladislaus in the north, and the province of St John Capistrano in the east. The three provinces united into a single Croatian Franciscan province of St Cyrill and Methodius in 1900. As the monastery in Zagreb, the Croatian capital, w...

Zhen-wei Liang,* Zheng Wang,* Hui Chen, Cen Li, Ti Zhou, Zhonghan Yang, Xia Yang, Yanfang Yang, Guoquan Gao,* and Weibin Cai* Department of Biochemistry, Zhongshan Medical School, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China; Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China; Key Laboratory of F...

Jilin Province is one of the principal production bases of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) in China with its typical preponderance in TCM resources, research and development power, and industrialization capacity. The province has 2,790 species of TCM materials in total. Over 20% of the TCM materials in common use are from Jilin Province. The province has established 36 good agricultural prac...

The southern African species of the water beetle genus Limnebius Leach, 1815, are revised. Eleven new species are described, based on the examination and databasing of 6,201 specimens from 96 localities/events. Male genitalia are illustrated, and high resolution habitus images of the holotypes are provided. Distribution maps are provided for the eleven species now known from southern Africa, in...

1 Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Disease, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical College, Guangzhou 510182, Guangdong Province, P.R. China; 2 Department of Respiratory Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou 510630, Guangdong Province, P.R. China; 3 Department of Respiratory Disease of the First Municipal Hospital of Shaoguan, 512000, Guangdong Pro...

BACKGROUND The objectives of this study were to estimate the prevalence of thalassemia and to analyze the need for public health services for migrant populations in different cities in Guangdong Province, China. METHODS A cross-sectional survey was conducted in 21 cities of Guangdong Province. Twenty-three types of a- and β-globin gene mutations were detected in a total of 14,230 pregnant wom...