conclusions our study revealed weak correlation between pe/e-vc and cormack-lehane grade, with 87% sensitivity and 30% specificity. therefore, we concluded that sonographic measurement criteria are not accurate in airway evaluations before anesthesia. results it was observed that correlations between the pre-epiglottic space (pe) and cormack-lehane grades i, ii, and iii were weak. correlations ...

Many flesh flies of the subfamily Sarcophaginae are very competitive carrion visitors and breeders, several synanthropic species medical forensic importance. The knowledge these taxa is still limited, which more noticeable in sub-sampled ecosystems such as tropical dry forests Colombia. Four new species, Blaesoxipha (Gigantotheca) wajiira sp. nov., Lepidodexia deborarangoa Oxysarcodexia luriza ...

The new material on the following genera of subfamily Meconematinae is considered: Subtilodecma gen. n.; Xizicus Gor.; Xiphidiopsis Redt.; Rhinoteratura Gor., stat. Borneratura Odonturisca Gor. genus here understood to contain four subgenera at least: nominotypical one; Euxiphidiopsis resurr.; Paraxiphidiopsis subgen. Dinoxiphidiopsis replacement generic name Caprixizicus nom. n. proposed for P...

Encompassing ca. 200 species distributed in paleotropical Africa and Asia, Amorphophallus is one of the largest genera Araceae. In spite great economic interest its glucomannan production, only a few studies have attempted to grasp evolutionary history this genus. current state knowledge, four main clades, mostly linked biogeographical delineation, been identified from phylogenies based on gene...

Two Japanese Polypedilum species including a new species are redescribed and described based on the males. Polypedilum (Probolum) simantokeleum, Sasa, Suzuki et Sakai, 1998, is transferred to the subgenus Uresipedilum. Polypedilum (Uresipedilum) dissimilum sp. nov. is easily distinguished from other members of Uresipedilum by having a T-shaped tergal band. Definition of the subgenus Probolum is...

We sequenced the plastid gene matK and the nuclear ribosomal spacer ITS for 39 of the 47+ species of Conostylis as well as its monotypic sister genus Blancoa, which some authors have included within Conostylis. Conostylis received 99% bootstrap support as monophyletic, with 100% support that Blancoa is its sister. Within Conostylis, the study provides strong support for two large sister clades,...

text classification is an important research field in information retrieval and text mining. the main task in text classification is to assign text documents in predefined categories based on documents’ contents and labeled-training samples. since word detection is a difficult and time consuming task in persian language, bayesian text classifier is an appropriate approach to deal with different...

Psathyrella is the archetypal little brown mushroom genus with few easily discernable characters causing it to be considered a "clean-up" genus for other small brown-spored saprotrophic species found worldwide. While molecular studies have demonstrated that mushroom genera based on homoplastic morphological characters are artificial, the degree of phylogenetic heterogeneity contained within Psa...