~~CONCLUTSIONS . Certain points arise out of the consideration of these cases. First, psittacosis is still liable to occur in this country, and should be borne in mind when one or more patients in a household are found to be suffering from an influenzal type of illness, with early signs in the lungs and perhaps some typhoid-like symptoms, such as epistaxis, abdominal distension, vomiting, const...

Pulmonary function studies were performed at the time of diagnosis in 10 patients, aged between 11 and 51 years, with bird breeder's lung due to exposure of between 9 months and 42 years. The studies were repeated after a varying interval in nine of these patients, following removal from exposure. In initial tests, diffusing capacity was impaired in eight patients and the arterial oxygen tensio...

-The responsiveness of female White-crowned Sparrows (Zonotrichia leucophrys nuttalli) to male songs in their natal dialect (Clear) or in an alien dialect (Buzzy) was evaluated by measuring string-gathering and papershredding in a laboratory experiment. Females hearing Clear dialect songs gathered more strings than did females hearing Buzzy dialect songs. More females hearing Buzzy songs shredd...

An ongoing challenge for wildlife managers is that target species habituate to or forget about hazing, even though the animals must be somewhat stressed by the hazing. Although stress and efficient memory formation/retrieval are considered to be incompatible, research suggests that the effect of stress on memory is complex. Mild and intense stress can impair memory formation and chronic stress ...

The recent growth of online big data offers opportunities for rapid and inexpensive measurement public interest. Conservation culturomics is an emerging research area that uses to study human–nature relationships conservation. Methods conservation culturomics, though promising, are still being developed refined. We considered the potential Wikipedia, encyclopedia, as a resource outlined methods...