Pollen analysis of a sediment sample obtained at 222 cm from the top of a drilling core collected in the Bay of Guanabara, Rio de Janeiro, was used as a tool to obtain more knowledge about pre-historical human living and environment. 14C datation revealed the age of 4210 years B.P. Most frequent pollen grains came from plants like Alchornea (Euphorbiaceae), Celtis (Ulmaceae), Lecythidaceae, Mel...

A new species of Celtis toka (Family Cannabaceae) from Faifa, Saudi Arabia is described and illustrated. Morphological descriptions with a distribution map photograph the were provided. only recorded West Middle Sahel region East Tropical Africa to Yemen in Arabian Peninsula. This record conceded as second locations for

This cross-sectional study was conducted at a purposively selected Mohakhali slum known as Sat-tala Basti of Dhaka city with a view to assess the nutritional status of women of reproductive age living in the slum. A total of 510 slum women were interviewed and their anthropometric measurements were taken. A large number of respondents (41.2%) were in the age group of 15 to 24 years. Majority of...

Arabis stellari var. japonica is an ornamental plant of the Brassicaceae family, and is widely distributed in South Korea. However, no information is available about its molecular biology and no genomic study has been performed on A. stellari. In this paper, the authors report the complete chloroplast genome sequence of A. stellari. The plastome of A. stellari was 153,683 bp in length with 36.4...