AIMS The major objective of this paper consists in underlining the wide range of possibilities in assessing the elderly patient; it relies on clinical examination in order to exclusively improve the patient's physiognomic aspect. MATERIALS AND METHODS In this context it has been organized a study which included 64 elderly patients aged between 60 and 90 years of age (median age 75), which pre...

Brazil has the largest commercial beef cattle herd in the world (over 190 million head in 2006) [1], with cultivated pastures occupying about 150 million hectares of its territory [2]. On a biome basis, the most extensive pasture occupation is found in the Cerrado (~ 546,251 km, amounting to about 26.8% of the total biome area and 36.8% of the total pasture area in Brazil), the Brazilian savann...

An ecosystem is a community of organisms and their physical and chemical environment interacting as an ecological unit. It represents all biological and abiotic components, including man, within a defined and delimited biotope, and is characterized by distinct ecological biocoenotic features of structure and functioning. The ecosystem relates to many different scales. At the lowest end of the s...

This iconographic and iconological research has shown the political value of eagle symbol in Palace Mosaic Constantinople. Thus this subject both ornamental significance, but meaning is predominant. The chronology (532 as terminus post quem) historical-archaeological context have disclosed relations between Emperor Justinian I. strangling a snake, perspective, becomes supreme power Justinian, w...

The physiognomy of Caribbean dry forest is shorter, denser and contains a greater proportion of multi-stemmed trees than other neotropical dry forests. Our previous research, conducted after Hurricane Georges in 1998, has shown that dry forest trees sprout near the base following hurricane disturbance, even if the trees have not incurred structural damage. However, for these hurricane-induced s...

Neuropsychological, event-related potential (ERP), and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) methods were combined to provide a comprehensive description of performance and neurobiological profiles for K.W., a case of congenital prosopagnosia. We demonstrate that K.W.'s visual perception is characterized by almost unprecedented inability to identify faces, a large bias toward local featu...

Université d'Aix-Marseille III, Centre de Saint-Jérôme, Laboratoire de Botanique et d'Ecologie Méditerranéenne, 13397 MARSEILLE/CEDEX 4. Abstract: Methods of classifying ecosystems have developed differently in Europe and America. Individualization of bioclimatic zones and of altitudinal levels proved most valuable, particularly the role of edaphic factors. This methodology can be associated wi...