PURPOSE To investigate the molecular epidemiological basis for the unusually high incidence of sclerocornea, aphakia, and microphthalmia in a village in the Tlaxcala province of central Mexico. METHODS A population census was performed in a village to identify all sclerocornea, aphakia, and microphthalmia cases. Molecular analysis of the previously identified Forkhead box protein E3 (FOXE3) m...

background and objectives: in the last few decades, losses of our cultural heritage due to biodeteriorationare beinghighly recognized. from museum objects to rock monuments, the microbial biodeterioration agents are found to be the most destructive. possibilities for proper preservative measure(s) are always more when it is only a monument, statue, museum article, or pre-historic art in any sma...

Abstract. The purpose of this paper is to rediscover the abandoned village Castelnuovo dei Sabbioni with new tools and modalities, providing an overall descriptive picture context in framework a pressing marginalization territories subjected depopulation abandonment, appropriate for definition possible future scenario village.The main novelty work proposing alternative data recording management...

Fire played an important role in maintaining and creating conditions suitable for native flora and fauna in the forests of western North America. Recent coarse filter conservation strategies have advocated creating future landscapes that incorporate historic or natural ranges of variability, including fire regimes. Historic fire regimes were variable across the West, and created quite unique co...

BACKGROUND In India, while the total fertility rate has been declined from 3.39 in 1992-93 to 2.68 in 2005-06, the prevalence of unintended pregnancy is still stagnant over the same period. A review of existing literature shows that within the country, there are variations in fertility preferences between different regions. Also there is a strong argument that the availability of a health facil...