We studied 39,896 hip fractures that occurred in Quebec during 10 years. We found an increase in the incidence of hip fracture during this period. Demographical or anthropologic factors (such as smoking, alcohol consumption, residential placement), seasonal variations or socioeconomic factors alone could not give a satisfactory explanation for such an increase of this incidence. The pandemic di...

Snake-poison is a subject of perennial interest to all dwellers in India.For, notwithstanding the laborious researches of numerous distinguished observers, the problem of an antidote to snake-venom still remains unsolved, and poisonous snakes continue to wield their, terrible destructive power with fatal freedom. The physiological action of Indian snake-poison has been carefully studied by Fayr...

Although Slovenian science is permanently subject of analysis and reorganization, there are no evident improvements of its organizational structure and share of researchers in so called governmental and economic sector. There are opinions that the key problems of Slovenian science are in the field of technical sciences; that the cause of industrial non-competitiveness are engineers. The search ...

China has been referred to as the shame-society by some social and behaviour scientists. The shame-related studies carried out in China are broadly reviewed. The subjects of the study are varied. Topics include shame and relevant factors; shame, stress and coping; shame, personality, and social anxiety; and shame and guilt. It has been indicated that cultural background plays an obvious and imp...

Humans beings can be identified through a series of methods, being fingerprints the most widely adopted when soft tissue is preserved. However, when the cadaver is carbonized or in skeletal form, forensic dental and anthropologic analysis may become necessary to identify the individual. Medical documentation (mainly xray images) may substantially improve the chances of identifying corpses initi...

Hungarian paleostomatology as the part of dental anthropology exists since the middle of the last century, together with the paleodontical research in the world. The name paleostomatology comes from a Hungarian scientist, György Huszár. The article has the following chapters: Introduction (what is paleostomatology, and its importance), First studies in the world, Nomenclature, The bases of Hung...