Recently, a new Leishmania amazonensis focus was described in a sub-Andean region (1,450-2,100 meters above sea level) of Bolivia. In this area, three anthropophilic sandfly species were identified: Lutzomyia nuneztovari anglesi Le Pont & Desjeux, 1984, which represented 86-99% of the captures, Lu. galatiae Le Pont et al., 1998, and Lu. shannoni Dyar 1929. Only Lu. nuneztovari anglesi was found...

BACKGROUND Complete decongestive therapy (CDT), including manual lymphatic drainage (MLD) is a manipulative intervention of documented benefit to patients with lymphedema (LE). Although the role of CDT for LE is well described, to the authors' knowledge there are no data regarding its efficacy for patients with LE due to tumor masses in the draining anatomic bed. Traditionally, LE therapists ar...

In the Arbutus Lake Watershed in the Adirondack Mountains, New York, two nearly adjacent catchments (14 and 15) varied significantly in volume-weighted stream water nitrate (NO3) export (54 and 17 mequiv. L–1, respectively; P < 0.001). The most notable differences between the catchments were that Catchment 14 had significantly higher soil Ca concentrations and patches of basswood (Tilia america...

The insolubilization of cadmium in the soil of a naturally cadmium-contaminated paddy field was studied using an atomized iron powder and an extracting reagent. Cadmium in the soil was extracted into the water phase by calcium chloride. The extracted cadmium was deposited on the iron powder. The deposition of cadmium was significantly influenced by calcium chloride, since the surface area of th...

We present a novel methodology for a urately registering a ve tor road map to wide area motion imagery (WAMI) gathered from an oblique perspe tive by exploiting the lo al motion asso iated with vehi ular movements. Spe i ally, we identify and ompensate for global motion from frame-to-frame in the WAMI whi h then allows ready dete tion of lo al motion that orresponds strongly with the lo ations ...

dans cet article, nous analyserons le discours narratif dans haft peykar, l’œuvre de nézami, afin d’étudier les éléments de l’acte narratif : la personne, le héros/narrateur, la fonction narrative et le destinataire. on examinera ainsi la structure des récits des sept princesses et ceux des sept prisonniers, constituant deux cycles de récits dans le récit principal. nous constaterons ainsi la v...

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Power-law relationships appear to characterize many patterns observed in ecology, from the level of individuals to the level of ecosystems (Calder 1984, Gaston and Blackburn 2000). These power laws often hold over scale ranges sufficiently large to justify the search for a unifying theoretical framework explaining the relationship between these patterns. A promising avenue for discovering such ...

P2P le-sharing tools such as Napster or KaZaA allow the easy distribution of les, mostly music in the form of MP3s, much to the dismay of the record industry as well as of individual artists who fear massive losses of their revenues. With the enforcement of copyright infringement laws, which has alread lead to the temporary shut down of Napster, signs are that the future of P2P le-sharing tools...

Limbic encephalitis (LE) is an autoimmune-mediated disorder that affects structures of the limbic system, in particular, the amygdala. The amygdala constitutes a brain area substantial for processing of emotional, especially fear-related signals. The amygdala is also involved in neuroendocrine and autonomic functions, including skin conductance responses (SCRs) to emotionally arousing stimuli. ...