An Apparently New Lecanium Found on White Cedar

Soil and plant chemistry of an Atlantic white cedar wetland on the Inner Coastal Plain of Maryland

WHIGHAM, D. F., and RICHARDSON, C. J. 1988. Soil and plant chemistry of an Atlantic white cedar wetland on the Inner Coastal Plain of Maryland. Can. J. Bot. 66: 568-576. Atlantic white cedar (Chamaecyparis thyoides (L.) BSP.) wetlands are widely distributed along the Atlantic coast, yet there is very little information on their nutrient dynamics. In this paper we present data on the chemical co...

New language found

As human languages are increasingly dying out, the discovery of a new one is striking. Nigel Williams reports. The UN's atlas of endangered languages lists around 230 that have become extinct during the past 60 years. And it is now widely agreed that around 3,000 languages worldwide are endangered and 200 are critically endangered with fewer than 10 speakers. Even in Europe, Karaim, in western ...

EFFECT OF IODINE DEFICIENCY ON I.Q.LEVELS OF APPARENTLY NORMAL INHABITANTS OF AN ENDEMIC GOITER AREA

New light on white matter.

Injury of central white matter is a major cause of functional disability in cerebrovascular disease. White matter is a target of hypoxic-ischemic injury throughout life, in clinical settings ranging from periventricular leukomalacia in the neonatal period, stroke and cardiac arrest in adults, to vascular dementia in the aging brain. The traditional view from animal studies is that gray matter i...

An Apparently Undescribed Infectious Exanthem *

During the past few years, patients with an unidentified acute febrile illness have appeared on the wards of the New Haven Hospital. They present similar signs and symptoms. We have been unable to recognize this syndrome as that of any of the known infectious diseases. We believe that it may be a new disease and we are taking this opportunity to report eleven cases seen in the past five years, ...