The pagurid hermit crab genus Trichopagurus de Saint Laurent, 1968 is currently represented by three shallow water spe- cies from the tropical Indo-West Pacific region. In this paper, three species of the genus, including one new species, are reported. Trichopagurus tenuidactylus n. sp. is described on the basis of a single ovigerous female from the Bohol Sea, the Philippines, and compared with...

A new species of leucothoid amphipod, Leucothoe eltoni sp. n., is described from coral reefs in Raja Ampat, Indonesia where it inhabits the branchial chambers of solitary tunicates. With an inflated first gnathopod superficially resembling the genus Paraleucothoe, this new species has a two-articulate maxilla 1 palp characteristic of the genus Leucothoe. While described from coral reef environm...

a Medical and Social Affairs, The National Family Safety Program, Saudi Arabia b Child Protection Research Center, American Humane Association, USA c PICU and Pediatric Emergencies, Hotel-Dieu Hospital, Beirut, Lebanon d Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry/Psychotherapy, University, Ulm, Germany e Department of Children, Schools and Families, England, United Kingdom f Child and Youth ...

Morphologically identified Anopheles flavirostris (Diptera: Culicidae), the principal malaria vector in the Philippines, comprised two species in collections from the Bataan Province of Luzon based on allozyme and internal transcribed spacer 2 ribosomal DNA analysis. Seven percent of morphologically identified specimens were the closely related nonvector An. filipinae. Morphologic variability o...

Pseudochromis ammeri sp. nov. and P. eichleri sp. nov. are described from Indonesia (Raja Ampat Islands, West Irian and Halmahera) and the Philippines (Calamianes Group, Boracay and northern Palawan), respectively. In having in combination a dark longitudinal stripe on the body and the anterior tip of the palatine tooth patch directed medially behind posterolateral arm of vomerine tooth patch, ...

The Philippines annual birth cohort of over 2 million is the second largest in the Western Pacific Region; 44% of births occur outside health facilities. With third dose infant hepatitis B (HB) vaccine coverage of 43% in 2006, erratic vaccine supply, and lack of policies or processes for universal HB vaccine birth dose delivery, a substantial burden of preventable chronic HB infection continues...

Background: The current study aimed to evaluating the dentistry education system in Iran and comparing it with selected dental schools in Turkey, the Philippines, Hungary, Ukraine, Russia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan. Methods: The study was accomplished by the analyses of the documents available on web sites, links correspond to curriculum, the education program of general dentistry, and the transc...

An overview of the history of myrmecology in the Philippine archipelago is presented. Keys are provided to the 11 ant subfamilies and the 92 ant genera known from the Philippines. Eleven ant genera (12%), including 3 undescribed genera, are recorded for the first time from the Philippines. The biology and ecology of the 92 genera, illustrated by full-face and profile photo-images, of Philippine...

MacFeeters‐Hamilton Centre for Neuro‐Oncology Research, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, Canada, 1Federal Medical Center, Owo, Nigeria, 2University of California, San Francisco, 3Instituto Neurologico C Besta, Milan, Italy, and Johns Hopkins Medical School, Baltimore, USA, 4King Edward Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, India, 5Philippine General Hospital, University of the Philippines, Manila...

In the wake of super typhoon Yolanda (known internationally as Haiyan) in the Philippines in 2013, many individuals in the Philippines turned to social media to express their thoughts and emotions in a variety of languages. In order to understand and analyze the sentiment of populations on the ground, we used a novel approach of developing a conceptual Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) d...