The Coptotermes Wasmann (1896), is a highly scattered genus, which represented by nine species. emersoni Ahmad (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae: Coptotermitinae) species first time reported from Southern Haryana, India, with specimens trapped banyan tree. Morphometric analysis of soldiers like body length, head length without mandibles, pigmentation, antennae segments, tibial spur, tarsal width, and ...

To estimate the effect of maternal zinc deficiency on pregnancy outcomes, we conducted a zinc supplementation trial in an urban shantytown in Lima, Peru, a population with habitual low zinc intakes. Beginning at 10-24 wk gestation, 1295 mothers were randomly assigned to receive prenatal supplements containing 60 mg iron and 250 (g folate, with or without 15 mg zinc. Women were followed up month...

Aim. The aim was to find and characterize different breeding lines varieties of bread wheat according morphological features the stomatal apparatus for further study genetic patterns biogenesis. Methods. evaluated by method impressions from middle adaxial abaxial sides flag leaf. Films with prints were studied a light microscope under 100–200 total magnification. length width guard cell, pore, ...

Caetetermes Fontes, 1981 is a monotypic South American genus of Nasutitermitinae. Its single species, Caetetermes taquarussu Fontes, 1981, was described based on morphological characters from soldiers and workers collected at three localities in the tropical rainforest of northeastern Ecuador. Several samples of C. taquarussu represented also by the imago caste were examined at the Museu de Zoo...

BACKGROUND There is limited evidence regarding interactions between pulmonary (dys)function, posture, and mobility of the upper body quadrant in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). OBJECTIVES This exploratory study aimed to investigate whether postural alignment and mobility of the upper quadrant are related to changes in pulmonary function and compare such variables b...

Hatha Yoga's effects on the posture of 15 ten year-old children and also its effects on the psychophysical condition of 15 grown-ups was studied. As symptoms, during the first examination, 12 of the 15 children had head protrusion, 14 had shortened back extensors, all 15 had bent shoulders, relaxation of the frontal abdominal wall and shortened flexors of both the calf and thigh. The condition ...

OBJECTIVE To analyze whether less cumbersome loupes are as equally efficacious as the microscope for magnification for free tissue transfers in head and neck reconstruction. DESIGN A 7-year retrospective review of 151 consecutive microvascular free tissue transfers compares the operating microscope with loupe magnification. SETTING A tertiary care medical center. PATIENTS A total of 151 c...