18 research outputs found
Cercopithecine and Colobine Abundance Across Protected and Unprotected Land in the Greater Mahale Ecosystem, Western Tanzania
Get PDFMost primates live in unprotected land where abundances and threats may differ from those in protected areas. We therefore need to establish population densities in both unprotected and protected areas to effectively inform conservation planning. The Greater Mahale Ecosystem in western Tanzania is a region of mixed protected status with seven cercopithecine and colobine species: blue (Cercopithecus mitis doggetti), red-tailed (C. ascanius schmidi), and vervet (Chlorocebus pygerythrus) monkeys; ashy red colobus (Piliocolobus tephrosceles); black-and-white colobus (Colobus angolensis); and olive (Papio anubis) and yellow (P. cynocephalus) baboons. These species may be threatened by increasing human activity; however, except for ashy red colobus, no data on local abundances are available. We walked over 350 km of line transects in legally protected (Village Forest Reserves) and unprotected general land between August 2011 and October 2012 to estimate densities of primates and human activity. Primate densities were consistently low across the Greater Mahale Ecosystem. Blue and red-tailed monkey and ashy red colobus densities were especially low compared to populations in predominantly forested landscapes. Primate and human activity densities did not differ significantly inside and outside of reserves. Low primate densities could be natural responses to the lower proportions and quality of riparian forest habitat in the region. High levels of human activity and the absence of significantly higher primate densities in reserves suggest unprotected land could provide important refuges for primates in the Greater Mahale Ecosystem. This result further reinforces a broad need to include unprotected areas in primate conservation strategies. © 2019, The Author(s)
Implant-supported Overdenture
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Edentulous patients often experience problems with their mandibular complete dentures. Patients with the resorbed mandibular ridge often complain of lack of stability and retention of the mandibular denture, together with a decreased chewing ability. While implant-supported fixed prosthesis offers many advantages, they are very expensive and not indicated in many conditions. Implant-supported removable prosthesis can be a choice of treatment in such cases. This clinical report describes a method to rehabilitate a patient with resorbed mandibular ridge with implant-supported overdenture.
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Kadam KS, Dange SP, Mahale K, Khalikar SA, Khalikar A. Implant-supported Overdenture. Int J Oral Implantol Clin Res 2017;8(1):22-25.
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Caesarean delivery on maternal request: need to redefine in view of intrapartum cases
Get PDFBackground: The objective of the study was to analyse the data of caesarean section on maternal request (CDMR) both before labour and intrapartum, in low-income society from a town in India.Methods: It was a retrospective observational study of 9331 caesarean section (CS) cases carried out in different small private maternity hospitals over a period of 20 years. We used the data for auditing the CS cases done on maternal request.Results: Out of 9331 CS cases documented, 216 CS were done on maternal request. The incidence of CDMR was 2.31%. About one third cases were intra-partum. The rising trend of CDMR was observed both before labour and intra-partum.Conclusions: There was a need to redefine CDMR in the view of rise in the incidence of women requesting for CS not only before labour but during lab or also. CDMR is no more confined to highly educated, rich and women from urban area. Less educated, low income group women residing in rural area are also becoming aware that CS can be done on maternal request.
L’espace public en Bulgarie : transformations et raisons d’être au début du XXIe siècle
Get PDFPanorama historique des modèles urbains qui ont façonné les villes bulgares depuis l’indépendance de 1878 : du mahale ottoman au modèle européen dix-neuviémiste, puis aux grands ensembles socialistes, le modèle a été influencé, à partir des années 1970, par la réflexion occidentale sur la réhabilitation historique des centre-ville et par les transformations des dernières décennies dues à l’influence de l’économie de marché. L’auteur critique explicitement ces dernières évolutions et en appelle à conserver le caractère public des espaces ouverts.Historical overview of urban patterns that shaped Bulgarian towns from the Independence in 1878: after Ottoman mahale and the Western pattern borrowed from 19th c. Europe, towns have been transformed by residential complexes in the socialist era. In the 1970’s, town planners adopted the western reflection on historical cities’ rehabilitation; now, towns are altered by market economy. The author explicitly criticizes these recent evolutions and wishes that public character of open spaces be conserved
L’espace public en Bulgarie : transformations et raisons d’être au début du XXIe siècle
Get PDFPanorama historique des modèles urbains qui ont façonné les villes bulgares depuis l’indépendance de 1878 : du mahale ottoman au modèle européen dix-neuviémiste, puis aux grands ensembles socialistes, le modèle a été influencé, à partir des années 1970, par la réflexion occidentale sur la réhabilitation historique des centre-ville et par les transformations des dernières décennies dues à l’influence de l’économie de marché. L’auteur critique explicitement ces dernières évolutions et en appelle à conserver le caractère public des espaces ouverts.Historical overview of urban patterns that shaped Bulgarian towns from the Independence in 1878: after Ottoman mahale and the Western pattern borrowed from 19th c. Europe, towns have been transformed by residential complexes in the socialist era. In the 1970’s, town planners adopted the western reflection on historical cities’ rehabilitation; now, towns are altered by market economy. The author explicitly criticizes these recent evolutions and wishes that public character of open spaces be conserved
Subtle behavioral variation in wild chimpanzees, with special reference to Imanishi's concept of kaluchua.
Get PDFHere we consider the concept of kaluchua (a word adopted from the English "culture") in group-living animals developed by Imanishi in the 1950s. He distinguished it from bunka (the Japanese equivalent to the English "culture") because he thought that bunka had strong connotations of noble and intellectual human-like activities. Although he did not rigidly define kaluchua, his original concept of kaluchua was much broader than bunka and represented non-hereditary, acquired behavior that was acknowledged socially. However, instead of social life, complex feeding skills have often formed the central topic in the current studies of animal culture. In order to provide evidence that more subtle behavioral variations exist among wild chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) populations, we directly compared the behaviors of two well-habituated chimpanzee groups, at Bossou and Mahale. During a 2-month stay at Bossou, M.N. (the first author) saw several behavioral patterns that were absent or rare at Mahale. Two of them, "mutual genital touch" and "heel tap" were probably customary for mature females and for mature males, respectively. "Index to palm" and "sputter" are still open to question. These subtle patterns occurred more often than tool use during the study period, suggesting that rarity is not the main reason for their being ignored. Unlike tool use, some cultural behavioral patterns do not seem to require complex skills or intellectual processes, and sometimes it is hard to explain the existence of such behaviors only in terms of function
Office hysteroscopy prior to ART cycle-analysis and outcome at a private IVF clinic setup in Surat, Gujarat, India
Get PDFBackground: Hysteroscopy is a gold standard test for assessing the uterine cavity. The presence of uterine pathology may negatively affect the chance of implantation .This study investigated the use of routine office hysteroscopy and correction of any intrauterine pathologies prior to starting IVF cycle on treatment outcome in women seeking IVF treatment for primary infertility and recurrent implantation failure.Methods: This was a retrospective study of 100 women who attended our infertility clinic from July 2016 to December 2016 and who were willing for office hysteroscopy. The main outcomes measured were clinical pregnancy rates achieved in the index IVF cycle, multiple pregnancy rate, ectopic pregnancy rate, miscarriage rate and failure rate.Results: Of the 100 patients who participated in the study, 75 patients conceived, 25 patients failed to conceive. 80.64% patients with normal findings on diagnostic hysteroscopy conceived after the procedure, 58.33% patients conceived after polypectomy, 68.42% conceived after septal resection, 71.42% conceived after adhesiolysis, 50% conceived after lateral metroplasty and 73.07% of recurrent implantation failure conceived after local endometrial injury was done on hysteroscopy.Conclusions: Hysteroscopy in infertile women prior to their IVF cycle when performed atleast 3 months in advance could improve treatment outcome
