The question of the population status of a species is closely connected to its position in the range and internal structure of the area it occupies. Of particular importance in the snow leopard (Panthera uncia) range is the Tian Shan area, where the population numbers are still estimated to be higher than in other regions (Bold and Dorzhzunduy, 1976; Braden, 1982; Heptner, Sludsky, 1972; Green,...

Changes of glaciers and glacial lakes and their causes were examined in the Hengduan Shan from 1990 to 2014, based on Landsat TM/ETM+/OLI images. A total glacier area of 1298.8 ± 62.1 km and glacial lake area of 255.8 ± 31.6 km were inventoried in 2014. The area of glaciers declined at an average rate of −0.40 ± 0.26% a, while glacial lakes expanded at average rate of +0.12 ± 0.03% a over the p...

Two new species of Nazeris Fauvel collected from Daming Shan, Guangxi Province, are described and illustrated: N. damingshanus Hu & Li, sp. n., N. longilobus Hu & Li, sp. n. An identification key to the Nazeris species from Guangxi is provided.

OBJECTIVE Following the isolation of a Marseillevirus from the stool of a healthy young Senegalese and a Mimivirus from a Tunisian patient with pneumonia, we attempted to isolate other giant viruses of amoebae from a large human stool collection. METHODS During the period 2010-2011, a total of 1,605 stool samples, including 115 from Tunisian patients with pneumonia, were cultured on amoebae. ...

We present glacier thickness changes over the entire Pamir–Karakoram–Himalaya arc based on ICESat satellite altimetry data for 2003–2008. We highlight the importance of C-band penetration for studies based on the SRTM elevation model. This penetration seems to be of potentially larger magnitude and variability than previously assumed. The most negative rate of region-wide glacier elevation chan...

Accurate and reliable segmentation of nuclei and their compartments is an important step for the quantitative image analysis of nuclear malignancy. To evaluate and analyze the properties of nuclei, such as the shapes, size, membrane, chromatin appearence and textures, nuclear regions need to be extracted and separated from the image background. Accurate segmentation of nuclei is often difficult...

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to thank my thesis advisors, who have guided me in the presentation of my thesis, and Shan Mei, with whom I have had many insightful discussions.

The appearance of detritus shed from mountain ranges along the northern margin of the Tibetan Plateau heralds the Cenozoic development of high topography. Current estimates of the age of the basal conglomerate in the Qaidam basin place this event in Paleocene-Eocene. Here we present new magnetostratigraphy and mammalian biostratigraphy that refine the onset of basin fill to ∼25.5 Myr and reveal...

Breast Cancer: a Preliminary Clinical Study 3 Chuanming Li[ , Shan Meng[ , Xinhua Yang, Daiquan Zhou, Jian Wang, Jiani 4 Hu 5 6 1 Department of Radiology, Southwest Hospital, Third Military Medical University, 7 30 Gaotanyan Road, Chongqing 400038, China; 8 2 Department of Breast Surgery, Southwest Hospital, Third Military Medical 9 University, 30 Gaotanyan Road, Chongqing 400038, China; 10 3 D...

Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan* School of Medicine, Chung-Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan** Institute of Medicine, Chung-Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan*** School of Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan**** Received: April, 2009 Revised: May, 2009 Accepted: June, 2009 Correspondenc...