Objective: Hoarseness of voice can develop due to various etiology. The present study aimed evaluate the causes and correlation factors causing hoarseness voice. Materials Methods: was done in department ENT, Sree Mookambika Institute Medical Sciences, Kulasekharam, Tamil Nadu. Among 72 patients who attended ENT OP with included based on inclusion exclusion criteria. Study procedure purpose exp...

A total of 200 threadfin bream Nemipterus japonicus was collected from Chennai in the east coast and Kochi in the west coast during January to February 2013 and studied for their morphometric and meristic characters. In total, 21 characters were analyzed out of which 3 characters namely dorsal, ventral and anal fins were not considered since they were unaltered. The findings indicate that 91% o...

OBJECTIVE We hypothesized that professional football teams would perform better than anticipated during games occurring close to their circadian peak in performance. DESIGN We reviewed the past 40 years of evening and daytime professional football games between west coast and east coast United States teams. In order to account for known factors influencing football game outcomes we compared t...

Koi carps frequently swim in burst-and-coast style, which consists of a burst phase and a coast phase. We quantify the swimming kinematics and the flow patterns generated by the carps in burst-and-coast swimming. In the burst phase, the carps burst in two modes: in the first, the tail beats for at least one cycle (multiple tail-beat mode); in the second, the tail beats for only a half-cycle (ha...

In the first half of the XXth century, while Upper-Volta (now Burkina Faso) was suffering a terrible epidemic of sleeping sickness, the French colonial administration encouraged the movement of people from Upper-Volta to Ivory Coast to meet their demands for labour. This led to the establishment of Mossi villages, such as those of Koudougou, in the Ivorian forest with populations originating fr...