We disagree with two of Rendell and Whitehead’s assertions. Culture may be an ancestral characteristic of terrestrial cetacean ancestors; not derived via marine variability, modern cetacean mobility, or any living cetacean social structure. Furthermore, evidence for vocal behavior as culture, social stability, and cognitive ability, is richer in birds than Rendell and Whitehead portray and comp...

Nowadays we are living in the information age with the fast development of computational technologies and modern facilities. Larger data sets are produced by experiments and computer simulations. In contrast to conventional scientific approaches where simple models are built to fit the data, automated procedures are urged to obtain insights into the core messages carried by the large volume of ...

Past efforts to promote family planning in Pakistan have been disappointing, but between 1990-91 and 2000-01 contraceptive use has more than doubled. This rise has coincided with a concerted effort on the part of the Pakistani government to increase access to contraceptive services, particularly in rural areas. The Lady Health Worker Programme (LHWP), initiated under the Ministry of Health in t...

CONTEXT The world has started to feel the impact of a global chronic disease epidemic, which is putting pressure on our health care systems. If uncurbed, a new generation of "diseases of comfort" (such as those chronic diseases caused by obesity and physical inactivity) will become a major public health problem in this and the next century. OBJECTIVE To describe the concept, causes, and preve...

This study tries to examine the relationship between son preference and contraceptive use at different parities of women in Bangladesh. This study reveals that the sex composition of the surviving children moderately influences the women’s practices of modern contraceptive use at lower parities. The more sons a women has, she is more likely to use modern contraceptive at parity one and two. But...

Contents I The basis of the bioheat transfer theory 1 1 INTRODUCTION: Essentials of the description of transport phenomena in highly heterogeneous media. What the bioheat transfer problem is 3 2 Mean field approach to the bioheat transfer problem 10 2.1 Modern models for heat transfer in living tissue. .

Entamoeba histolytica meningoencephalitis has not been described in the modern literature, which is distinct from that caused by free-living amoebae. We report the first case of E. histolytica meningoencephalitis without liver or brain abscesses. Cerebrospinal fluid revealed 2 + very motile trophozoites. Our patient was successfully treated with intravenous metronidazole.

Like traffic jams and cell phones, particulate air pollution is a reality of modern living. Whether it’s from cigarette smoking, industrial emissions, or the burning of wood and dung for fuel, fine particulate matter (PM2.5) has been strongly linked to cardiovascular disease, inflammation, lung cancer, and other lung diseases. As part of the Global Burden of Disease Study (GBD) 2010 collaborati...

Well prior to the invention of the term ̳biology‘ in the early 1800s by Lamarck and Treviranus, and also prior to the appearance of terms such as ̳organism‘ under the pen of Leibniz in the early 1700s, the question of ̳Life‘, that is, the status of living organisms within the broader physico-mechanical universe, agitated different corners of the European intellectual scene. From modern Epicureanis...

background the long-term consequences and the activities of daily living of bilateral lower limb amputatees are not well documented. objectives our study identifies the long-term effects of bilateral lower extremity amputations on daily activities to understand how these amputees cope with their mobility assistive devices. materials and methods a total of 291 veterans of war with bilateral lowe...