Bone Weaver by Aden Polydoros

Continued Fever at Aden

By Surgeon-Major Hubert Greene, A.M.D. The following rough notes of some cases of pyrexia, characterized by very persistent high temperature, have been written in the hope that, though very imperfect, they may possibly contribute in some slight degree towards the elucidation of the nature of the complex diseases which are usually classed under the head of Simple Continued Fever. The circumstanc...

Notes on leprosy in Aden.

Sex differences in cooperative silk-spinning by weaver ant larvae.

Final-instar larvae of weaver ants (Oecophylla longinoda) use their silk for nest construction rather than for cocoon spinning; this commitment represents a shift from entirely selfish to entirely cooperative behavior that occurred after the emergence of the phylogenetically advanced subfamily Formicinae. Male larvae were found to have smaller silk glands and to contribute substantially less si...

Automated Versus Manual Platelet Count in Aden

This is a cross sectional study conducted in the National Center of Public Health Laboratories (NCPHL) of Aden – Yemen, during October-December 2011, with an overall aim to compare the results of platelet count by the automated versus the manual methods. Study included 190 random samples, examined with confirmatory platelet estimate done by the stained thin blood film. The mean platelets count ...

Ray Weaver and Drazen Prelec*

Vol. L (June 2013), 289–302 289 *Ray Weaver is Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School, Harvard University (e-mail: [email protected]). Drazen Prelec is Professor of Management, Management Science and Economics, MIT Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (e-mail: [email protected]). This research was supported by NSF SES0519141 and the John...