Cardiovascular diseases are one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality in captive apes.Transthoracic echocardiography is the most comprehensive cardiovascular imaging technique used to diagnose and monitor cardiopathies in mammals.However, there are currently no baseline data of heart morphology and function in hylobatid primates.Conventi

Abstract Aim To assess changes in sexual behaviour among students at a high school in Denmark from 1982 to 2001.Methods An anonymous self-administered questionnaire was used to compare data from three identical cross-sectional surveys performed in 1982, 1996, and 2001.Results Girls: More girls reported their first sexual intercourse before their 16

Social Circulation Hose determinants of malnutrition play a significant role in dictating the course of malnutrition outcomes in any population.Sustained efforts to optimize these determinants are indispensable to sustainable changes in the status of nutrition of the affected population.Despite the efforts undertaken, such a high prevalence of chil

Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), particularly ischemic heart disease (IHD) and stroke, present epidemiologically in a different way among sexes.The reasons of these sex-based differences should be delved into sex-specific cardiovascular (CV) risk factors and different mechanisms of atherosclerotic progression.Imaging techniques Shields of both carot

Apomixis represents an alteration of classical sexual plant reproduction to produce seeds that have essentially clonal embryos.In this report, hickory (Carya cathayensis Sarg.), which is an important oil tree, is identified as a new apomictic species.The ovary has a chamber containing one ovule that is unitegmic and orthotropous.Embryological inves