Determining the upper treeline is certainly one of the most interesting research challenges in comparative high mountain research. Careful compilations (Hermes 1955; von Wissmann 1961; Schickhoff 2005) have documented that the highest treelines in the northern hemisphere are found on the eastern declivity of the Tibetan Highlands. However, regional and global synopses of upper treeline altitude...

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Field trips were undertaken in South Africa from 1997–2001 to determine the prevalence of poxvirus infection in Swainson’s francolin, Francolinus swainsonii. In total, 200 specimens were trapped or shot and examined for external lesions. Selected tissues from three dead specimens were removed for histopathological examination. Eighty-eight (44%) of 200 specimens revealed lesions, the highest co...

Electronic patient records are typically optimised for delivering care to a single patient. They omit significant information that the care team can infer whilst including much of only transient value. They are secondarily an indelible legal record, comprised of heterogeneous documents reflecting local institutional processes as much as, or more than, the course of the patient’s illness. By con...

The basis of nutritional therapy and thus an adequate nutrient intake is the assessment of energy need. On the other end, the assessment of individual energy requirements based on the gold standard, indirect calorimetry, is associated with feasibility difficulties in geriatric settings. To identify the most accurate predictive equations for resting energy expenditure (REE) in older subjects wit...

This is the first report of a Plasmodium blood parasite found in the Galapagos Archipelago. Phylogenetic analyses place this parasite, recovered from endangered Galapagos penguins (Spheniscus mendiculus), within the genus Plasmodium, and suggest a close relationship to some of the most dangerous lineages of Plasmodium that have been known to cause severe mortality and morbidity in captive pengu...

Background Prevalence of dementia increases with increasing age. Although cognitive assessment is central to the diagnosis dementia, normative data on neuropsychological tests in non-selected elderly populations are limited and those available oldest-old rare. Objectives: To report distribution scores CERAD test battery a large population including sizeable number very old individuals participa...