A field survey through questionnaire was conducted in rice-prawn (Macrobrachium rosenbergii)-fish culture ghers six villages of Khulna, Satkhira and Bagerhat districts south-west Bangladesh during March to December, 2008 assess present practices. About 10-25% the total area land converted for building canals dikes remaining were used rice cultivation. Boro with prawn fish appeared have positive...

Long-term monitoring of distributed, multiple plots is the key to quantify macroecological patterns and changes. Here we examine the evidence for concerted changes in the structure, dynamics and composition of old-growth Amazonian forests in the late twentieth century. In the 1980s and 1990s, mature forests gained biomass and underwent accelerated growth and dynamics, all consistent with a wide...

Worldwide agriculture is one of the main drivers of biodiversity decline. Effective conservation strategies depend on the type of relationship between biodiversity and land-use intensity, but to date the shape of this relationship is unknown. We linked plant species richness with nitrogen (N) input as an indicator of land-use intensity on 130 grasslands and 141 arable fields in six European cou...

Introduction: Proximal humerus fractures are 2nd most common of upper limb and 3rd overall. which were stable minimally displaced treated conservatively, unstable (3 part, 4 part) with ORIF Plate osteosynthesis. PO allows early mobilization fracture construct. Stability is contributed by the fixed angle construct prosthesis. This a prospective study aimed at knowing functional outcome in proxim...

Present study deals with density, species diversity, basal area, IVI, biomass and carbon stock in Sal forests. The was conducted three forest sites around Champawat at Tanakpur. Among the fifteen tree species, total density of trees varied between 290-690 ind. ha-1 all studied forest. area forests 50.92 to 78.84 m2 ha-1. Tree diversity from 1.07-2.11. Biomass ranged 473.3 786.8 tha-1 224.8- 373...

OBJECTIVE To examine the reliability of the Wolf Motor Function Test (WMFT) for assessing upper extremity motor function in adults with hemiplegia. DESIGN Interrater and test-retest reliability. SETTING A clinical research laboratory at a university medical center. PATIENTS A sample of convenience of 24 subjects with chronic hemiplegia (onset >1yr), showing moderate motor impairment. IN...

The emergence of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is a major global concern since, despite a complex treatment regime, it still remains a lethal threat. A 21-yr-old male HIV-negative migrant from Burma presented with a disseminated tuberculosis affecting the lung, spleen, liver, mediastinal and abdominal lymph nodes. This particular strain of Mycobacterium tuberculosis proved to be res...

Prenatal exposure to lead (Pb) is known to decrease fetal growth; but its effects on postnatal growth and mechanistic insights linking Pb to growth are not clearly defined. Genomically imprinted genes are powerful regulators of growth and energy utilization, and may be particularly vulnerable to environmental Pb exposure. Because imprinting is established early and maintained via DNA methylatio...

This study provides an adaptive data analysis method that assesses Alberta’s acid deposition monitoring network of 9 stations and the relative importance of each station. The method is based on the assessment of the mean square error (MSE) of sampling expressed in terms of empirical orthogonal functions (EOF). The annual potential acid input (PAI) data of the 9 stations over Alberta, Canada are...

Isolated Growth Hormone Deficiency (IGHD) due to GH1 gene defects has a variable inheritance pattern: autosomal recessive, autosomal dominant, and X-linked. the autosomal dominantly inherited form, IGHD II, is mainly caused by heterozygous mutations of splicing around the exon 3/IVs3 boundary region of the GH1 gene resulting in exon 3 skipping of transcripts. We have previously reported finding...