cases of pneumonia every now and then in which septicaemic or even pysemic symptoms predominate, and the original local pulmonary lesion sinks into comparative insignificance. Such cases are continually being recorded in the medical journals, and, in view of our increasing knowledge on the subject, are always of interest. The following two cases present several unusual characteristics, and it i...

university examinations, etc. The registration of births is still extremely incomplete in India, even in municipal areas. In January 1939, Colonel R. S. Townsend, gave us a copy of a paper written by himself and Rai Bahadur Dr. Raghunandan Lall, m.bv b.s., on age determination of Indian girls in the United Provinces by .T-ray demonstration of epiphysial union. His paper was published in the Ind...

BACKGROUND Thyroid is one of the ductless endocrine gland, which is located immediately below the larynx on either side of and anterior to the trachea. The principal hormones of thyroid gland are thyroxine (T4) and triiodothyronine (T3). The current study was carried out to investigate the impact of race, gender and area on the levels of Thyroxine (T4), Triiodothyronine (T3) and Thyroid Stimula...

14,849 affected cases of beta thalassemia have been registered in 1995 in all provinces of iran. it is estimated that there are about three million carriers in iran. the provincial distributions of the affected cases show that the highest incidence in 100 thousand individuals was in mazandaran (71.29) and gilan (57.61), respectively, both near the caspian sea (north), followed by hormozgan (50....

The idea of the frontier reflects a uniquely colonial view of a place and process of encounter between colonising people, indigenous inhabitants, and natural landscapes.[1] Within this colonial context, the idea of the frontier has been variously developed through history by natural and social scientists, popular historians, artists, writers, and government officials. This volume draws together...

The growing development of offshore wind energy installations across the North Sea is producing new hard anthropogenic structures in the natural soft sediments, causing changes to the surrounding macrobenthos. The extent of modification in permeable sediments around a gravity based wind turbine in the Belgian part of the North Sea was investigated in the period 2011-2012, along four gradients (...