A major trend that characterized the naturalization of Aristotelian habitus concept in medieval Islamic world was its application to religious discourses. This not limited works Muslim thinkers. The present communication focuses on ways which Maimonides used concept, naturalizing it Jewish system.

The genus Pelenomus Thomson from China is revised and six species are found occurring in China. Among them, P. curvatus, sp. nov. is described from Yunnan province, and four species are newly recorded from China: P waltoni (Boheman, 1843), P. canaliculatus (Fåhraeus, 1843), P. quadricorniger (Colonnelli, 1986) and P roelofsi (Hustache, 1916). Taxonomic diagnosis, habitus photos, detailed illust...

Five species of the genus Perittopus Fieber, 1861 from China and Thailand are treated in this paper including four new species: P. crinalis sp. nov., P. falciformis sp. nov., and P. yunnanensis sp. nov. are from Yunnan Province, China; and P. zhengi sp. nov. from Chiang Mai, Thailand. The morphological descriptions are given for all the treated species. The photographs and the drawings of femal...

The two species of the genus Pactola Pascoe known from New Caledonia, P. convexa (Montrouzier) and P. setacea (Montrouzier), are redescribed and two new species (P. magna sp. n. and P. proxima sp. n.) are described. Pactola kanalensis (Perroud) is a new junior synonym of P. setacea (Montrouzier). A neotype of Pactola setacea (Montrouzier) and lectotypes of Pactola convexa (Montrouzier) and Pact...

The Pardosa nebulosa-group consists of at least 66 species, including 14 species recorded from the South China. In this paper, we describe two new species of this group, P. tuberosa sp. nov. and P. parathompsoni sp. nov. from Yunnan Province of China. Also, P. shuangjiangensis Yin et al., 1997 is newly synonymised with P. pusiola (Thorell, 1891), based on the examination of specimens mainly fro...

BACKGROUND Little is known about soft tissue attenuation artifacts when an upright patient-position SPECTmyocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) system is used. In this investigation we sought to describe the patterns and frequency of attenuation artifacts associated with this type of instruments and we explored the impact of gender and body habitus on these artifacts. METHODS In a cross-sectional...

The purpose of the present study was to compare the impact of pulmonary function, body habitus, and stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) immobilization on setup and reproducibility for upper lung tumor. From 2008 through 2011, our institution's prospective SBRT database was searched for patients with upper lung tumors. Two SBRT immobilization strategies were used: full-length BodyFIX and ...