Mosquitoes are vectors for several diseases including malaria, yellow and dengue fever, and encephalitis. Culex pipiens is a mosquito species with worldwide distribution whose larvae colonize temporary and permanent aquatic environments (Campos et al. 1993). Cx. pipiens is the most common species in Uruguay, where mosquito-mediated diseases are largely controlled, but the systematic reappearanc...

The New Jewish Cemetery in Lublin as a Palimpsest of Memory article seeks to understand the current condition new cemetery Lublin, Poland. While it briefly presents prewar history cemetery, focus paper is on afterwar period 1944–1992. becomes palimpsest memory researched through activities, documents, media reports, and transformations area. activities organizations both Poland abroad, well loc...

We analyzed the hypervariable region I (HVR-I) sequence variability of the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) of individuals buried at Aldaieta (6th-7th centuries AD) in order to find out more about the biosocial implications of this cemetery. The results, fully authenticated by means of diverse criteria (analysis of duplicates, replication in an independent laboratory, quantification of target DNA, and...

Periodontal disease is one of the most common chronic diseases in living populations, and most studies that have examined sex differences in periodontal disease have found higher frequencies in men compared to women. This study examines sex differences in periodontal disease in two cemeteries from medieval London: the East Smithfield cemetery (c. 1349-1350), an exclusively Black Death cemetery ...

Estimations of age from tooth formation standards for a large (n = 282) sample of subadult skeletal remains from a 19th century historic cemetery sample were analyzed. The standards of Moorrees et al. (1963a,b) for the permanent and deciduous teeth, and Anderson et al. (1976) for the formation of permanent dentition were employed in a variety of combinations to calculate mean dental ages. Tests...