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The tadpole of Hypsiboas guentheri (Boulenger) (Anura: Hylidae)
No full textAlmeida-Silva, Diego, Neto, Antonio Mollo, Mendes, Humberto Fonseca, Verdade, Vanessa Kruth (2016): The tadpole of Hypsiboas guentheri (Boulenger) (Anura: Hylidae). Zootaxa 4179 (1): 139-143, DOI: http://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4179.1.1
Mauro Teixeira Jr, Francisco Dal Vechio, Pedro M. Sales Nunes, Antonio
No full textJr, Mauro Teixeira, Vechio, Francisco Dal, Sales Nunes, Pedro M., Neto, Antonio Mollo, Lobo, Luciana Moreira, Storti, Luis Fernando, Gaiga, Renato Augusto Junqueira, Dias, Pedro Henrique Freire, Rodrigues, Miguel Trefaut (2013): Mauro Teixeira Jr, Francisco Dal Vechio, Pedro M. Sales Nunes, Antonio. Zootaxa 3646 (2): 200-200, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3646.2.1
FIGURE 5 in A new species of Bachia Gray, 1845 (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae) from the western Brazilian Amazonia
No full textFIGURE 5. Detail of the forelimb of (A) Bachia scaea sp. nov. (MZUSP 103414), (B) B. dorbignyi (MZUSP 2063); (C) B. barbouri (MZUSP 46274); (D) B. trisanale abendrothii (MZUSP 3334); (E) B. t. vermiforme (MZUSP 46275); (F) B. peruana (MZUSP 51640); (G) B. bicolor (MZUSP 44957) (H) B. intermedia (MZUSP 40675).Published as part of Jr, Mauro Teixeira, Vechio, Francisco Dal, Sales Nunes, Pedro M., Neto, Antonio Mollo, Lobo, Luciana Moreira, Storti, Luis Fernando, Gaiga, Renato Augusto Junqueira, Dias, Pedro Henrique Freire & Rodrigues, Miguel Trefaut, 2013, A new species of Bachia Gray, 1845 (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae) from the western Brazilian Amazonia, pp. 401-420 in Zootaxa 3636 (3) on page 409, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3636.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/22225
An Innovative Way to Add Value to Organizations: People Relationship Modeling
No full textPart IV: ICT and Emerging TechnologiesInternational audienceCommunications agencies are private organizations that have a fundamental role in marketing and communication markets. Following this perspective, this study, with the support of Social Network Analysis tools, the structure of an agency will be modeled with the purpose of identifying the most important actors and its relationships, and show its interdependence with the workflow of the production chain. To achieve compatible results with the organization goals, it is important that their areas or teams relate with one another so as to optimize their production processes. With support of the Ucinet® software and its integrated module NetDraw®, this paper describes through a case study, how to implement this innovative approach and follow the evolution of the network in order to improve their operational performance. The results pointed out an increase in productivity after the analysis and change in the organization’s internal communication
Bachia scaea Jr, Vechio, Nunes, Neto, Lobo, Storti, Gaiga, Dias & Rodrigues, 2013, sp. nov.
No full textBachia scaea sp. nov. (Figs. 1–2) Bachia flavescens Marçal et al. (2011: 262) Holotype: MZUSP 101586, an adult male from the left bank of Madeira River, (9 ° 26 ' 55.30 "S, 64 ° 50 ' 0.51 "W, 101 m a.s.l., SAD 69), Porto Velho municipality, state of Rondônia, Brazil, collected by the authors on 30 th September 2010. Field number H 828. Paratypes: MZUSP 103415, adult male and MZUSP 103414, juvenile; field numbers H 3133, H 3132, respectively (9 ° 35 ' 42.30 "S, 65 ° 3 ' 54.11 "W, 96 m a.s.l., SAD 69). MZUSP 100631, adult female; field number H 510 (9 ° 26 ' 16.18 "S, 64 ° 49 ' 58.22 "W, 123 m a.s.l., SAD 69). MZUSP 103408, adult female; field number H 2479 (9 ° 35 ' 4.53 "S, 65 ° 4 ' 9.40 "W, 129 m a.s.l., SAD 69). MZUSP 101735, MZUSP 101736, MZUSP 103413, adult females; field numbers SAME 1130, SAME 1661, MTR 21266 (approximately 09°07' S, 64 ° 30 '' W). All from Porto Velho municipality, state of Rondônia, Brazil. Etymology: The specific epithet scaea is derived from the Greek word “ skaios ” which means “on the left”, referring to its geographical position regarding the Madeira River, as it is found only on its left bank, while its putative sister species, B. dorbignyi, is found only at its right bank. Diagnosis: (1) A median-sized species of Bachia (maximum SVL= 69 mm); (2) prefrontals absent; (3) 5 supralabials; (3) supraoculars absent and 2 - 2 supraciliars; (4) femoral pores absent, 1 - 1 preanal pores in males; (5) 24–26 scales around midbody; (6) 51–54 dorsal rows of scales; (7) 40–43 ventral rows of scales; (8) 6–7 gulars; (9) 4 preanal shields; (10) no supralabials in contact with parietal; (11) dorsal scales hexagonal, imbricate, smooth; (12) fore and hindlimbs without clawed-digits; (13) first temporal present, separating fifth supralabial and parietal; (14) second chin shield not reaching oral border; (15) frontonasal present, reduced. Description of the holotype: Body elongate, with a slight cervical constriction on head, snout rounded, tail longer than body. Rostral small, barely visible from above, contacting first supralabial, nasal and frontonasal. Viewed from above the rostral is about twice as wide as high; on lateral view it projects not far from the anterior margin of jaw. Frontonasal trapezoidal, as wide as long, wider posteriorly, contacting rostral, nasal and frontal. Prefrontals absent. Frontal roughly pentagonal, longer than wide, with anterior margin slightly convex, broader than, and in contact with frontonasal, and nasal; lateral margins straight to slightly concave, in contact with loreal, first and second superciliaries; posteriorly angulose, broadly contacting parietals. Frontoparietals and interparietal absent. Parietals large, longer than wide, slightly longer and slightly narrower than frontal, roughly pentagonal; their anterior margin deeply indented and in broad contact with frontal, contacting the second superciliary, three upper temporals and the dorsals. Posterior borders of parietals and dorsals coincides with a very slight transverse cervical constriction in the occipital region. Supraoculars absent. Two superciliaries of about the same size. Nasal large, longer than high. Nostril in the anterior lower margin of the nasal, invading the upper border of first supralabial. Loreal roughly squared, in contact with nasal, frontal, first superciliary, a small irregular anterior subocular and second and third supralabials. Frenocular absent. Six supralabials; third, fourth and fifth under the orbital region, fifth the highest and largest, not contacting parietal; fourth the smallest. Three suboculars; second longest; third one contacting second superciliary and an elongate anterior temporal. Postocular absent. Eyelid present with an undivided semitransparent disc. A small temporal scale between fifth and sixth supralabials and first and second temporal scales. Second upper temporal enlarged, longer than wide, diagonally disposed over a smaller scale contacting sixth supralabial. These two scales are followed by a similarly disposed third pair of temporal scales where the upper scale is the largest. Ear opening absent; its position marked by a longitudinal series of smaller granules. All head scales smooth and juxtaposed. Mental roughly trapezoidal, wider than long, just broader than the ventral surface of rostral. Postmental roughly heptagonal; longer than wide. Two pairs of chin shields, both contacting infralabials; the anterior pair smaller, in broad contact at the midline; second pair in narrower contact at the midline, followed by three pairs of symmetric flat elongate pregulars, inner ones the largest. Five infralabials; first, second and third with about the same size. Gulars smooth, imbricate, rounded posteriorly, in seven transversal rows; scales of gular rows increasing gradually in size toward interbrachial region. Interbrachial region with two central, longer than wide central scales, emarginated at each side by a pair of two smaller scales, the lower one larger. Lateral scales of neck subrectangular, smooth, imbricate, slightly rounded posteriorly and longer than wide, disposed in regular transverse rows and becoming gradually similar to adjacent dorsal or ventral scales. Collar fold absent. Dorsal scales imbricate and disposed in regular transversal rows; smooth, subrectangular and wider in occipital region, becoming progressively narrower, more elongate and rounded towards the level of the forelimbs and then on longer, hexagonal, lanceolate, smooth, with lateral sides almost juxtaposed. Fifty-three transverse rows between interparietal and the level of hind limbs. Lateral scales about the same size as the dorsals but smooth and less acuminate; those closer to ventrals slightly wider. A distinctive area with granular scales surrounds the area of forelimbs insertion and the posterior part of hindlimbs insertion. Twenty five scales around the midbody. Ventral scales smooth, longitudinally imbricate, laterally juxtaposed, almost squared just after the interbrachial row, becoming gradually longer than wide, rounded posteriorly, those after midbody narrower; forty transverse rows between interbrachials and preanals. Four preanal shields, divided in three longitudinal rows, central one with two scales aligned longitudinally; one small scale on each side of anal plate. One preanal pore, femoral pores absent. Scales of tail similar to midbody dorsals, smooth, lanceolate, strongly imbricated, with 121 transverse rows. Fore limbs stiliform, covered by smooth and imbricate scales, ending by three apical scales with no claws. Hind limbs also rudimentary, very reduced in size. Background color of dorsal and lateral surfaces of body and tail dark brown with a pair of dorsolateral yellowish stripes extending from the lateral edge of parietals to the tip of the tail, and two paravertebral faded cream lines beginning at the fifth dorsal row, coalescing just after the hindlimb level and fading. Ventral parts of body and tail brown. Measurements of the holotype (mm): SVL= 62.2 mm; TL= 107.4 mm Variation: the sample is fairly homogeneous in scale counts and dorsal color pattern, however some variation in head scalation can be observed; in three specimens (MZUSP 103408, 103414– 15,) the first temporal is followed directly by the second temporal, whereas in the five other specimens (MZUSP 100631, 101586, 101735 –36, 103413), there is a small scale between the first and second temporals and the supralabials. Ontogenetic variation on dorsal pattern can also be observed, with the two paravertebral cream lines merging at the cloacal level and entering the tail, fading posteriorly in juveniles; in adults after merging at the cloacal level the line disappears, rendering the dorsal surface of tail dark brown. Comparison with other species (data from species in comparison are given in parentheses): the new species is a member of the Bachia dorbignyi group by having hexagonal, smooth, imbricate dorsal scales; quadrangular, juxtaposed ventral scales; supraoculars absent; interparietal and prefrontal absent; no femoral pores; 1 - 1 preanal pores; hindlimb stiliform and forelimbs ending in three fingers. These characters promptly distinguish B. scaea sp. nov. from all species of the B. bresslaui group (all with keeled dorsal scales, and supraoculars present), from the B. heteropa group (four digits on limbs and interparietal present) and from the B. flavescens group (quadrangular dorsal scales, supraoculars present). Among the species of the Bachia dorbignyi group (diagnostic features for species of B. dorbignyi group are summarized in Table 1), B. scaea sp. nov. can be promptly distinguished from all species by the absence of clawed fingers (Fig. 3) (2–4 clawed fingers in combination for all other species). Additionally it differs from B. bicolor, B. huallagana, B. peruana, B. talpa and B. trisanale by having 6 supralabials (5) and from B. huallagana and B. trisanale by having 5 infralabials (4). By the absence of contact between supralabial and parietal it differs from B. dorbignyi (in the 5 th), B. huallagana (3 rd), B. peruana (4 th), B. talpa (4 th) and B. trisanale (4 th). It also differs from B. dorbignyi, B. huallagana, B. peruana and B. trisanale by the presence of a first temporal (absent). By the absence of interparietal it differs from B. barbouri (present) and by the presence of a frontonasal it differs from B. trisanale (absent). The lower number of gulars, 6–7, distinguishes it from B. barbouri (8–10), B. bicolor, B. intermedia (both 7–9), B. talpa (9) and B. trisanale (7–8). By the lower number of scales around the body, 24–26, it can also be distinguished from B. barbouri (26–31), B. bicolor (27–31) and B. intermedia (28–35). By the number of dorsal scales, 51–54, it can also be distinguished from B. talpa (47–51). By the higher number of ventral scales, 42–45, it can be distinguished from B. barbouri (34–39), B. bicolor (34–40), B. intermedia (33–38) and B. talpa (36–38). Although information on the number of caudal scales is missing for most of the species, it can also be distinguished from B. dorbignyi by a higher number of rows, 111–121 (88–108). It can be further distinguished from B. bicolor, B. barbouri and B. talpa by the second chin shield not reaching the oral border (second chin shield reaches the oral border). It can also be distinguished from B. bicolor, B. talpa and B. trisanale by the presence of four preanal shields (three). Also differences in the dorsal color pattern distinguish it from all other Bachia species of the B. dorbignyi group (see Fig. 4 for a summary of dorsal color patterns in the group, excluding B. talpa, for which we did not have data on its dorsal color). Hemipenial morphology: The left hemipenis of MZUSP 103414 (Fig. 5 A) is unilobed with the distal tip of the retractor muscle divided. The organ is relatively small, extending along approximately four subcaudal rows (4 mm). The hemipenial body is cylindrical, slightly divided in the distal tip, indicating possibly vestigial lobes. The sulcus spermaticus is a relatively broad channel, originating at the central region of the base of the organ, and proceeding in a straight line towards the apex. At the distal tip of the hemipenial body the sulcus is divided in two shallow branches. On the lobes, these branches run centrifugally ending at the external face of the tip. The full hemipenis is completely nude, with no evident plicae, papillae, ridges, calyces, mineralized spines or spinules in both faces (sulcate and asulcate), even after their immersion on Alizarin Red solution for 24 hours. The complete absence of evident hemipenial ornamentation on the genus Bachia is a common condition shared with other species, such as Bachia trisanale, B. intermedia (Presch 1978), B. oxyrhina (Rodrigues et al. 2008), B. heteropa alleni and B. bresslaui (Nunes 2011). The organ of B. dorbignyi (Fig. 5 B) is relatively similar with that of described above for B. scaea sp. nov., differing only in the shape of the hemipenial body, which is more globular, and in the width of sulcus spermaticus, wider than observed in the specimen of B. scaea sp. nov. Distribution and Natural history: despite our large sampling effort in both banks of Madeira River, specimens of Bachia scaea sp. nov. were found only on its left bank (Fig. 6). The additional specimens from Porto Velho municipality were also found at the left bank. In the literature specimens referred to as B. gr. dorbignyi (Avila-Pires 2009) are recorded from a close locality, Guajará-Mirim, at the right bank of Madeira River. We have not examined these specimens, however the dorsal coloration matches that of B. dorbignyi, nonetheless it will be important to examine these specimens to attest if they belong to the new one or B. dorbignyi. B. scaea B. B. B. B. B. B. B. B. sp. nov. barbouri bicolor dorbignyi huallagana intermedia peruana talpa trisanale Caudals 111–121 ?? 88–108 ????? SL 6 6 5 6 5 6 5 5 5 IL 5 5 5 5 4 5 5 5 4 SL-P none 5 th none 5 th 4 th none 4 th 4 th 4 th 1 st temporal present absent present absent absent present absent absent absent Interparietal absent present absent absent absent absent absent absent absent Chin-oral no yes yes no no no no yes no Preanal shields 4 4 3 4 4 4 4 3 3 Hemipenis nude? flounced nude? nude?? nude Although no specimen was found active, one individual found during the day in a trail was supposed to be moving under the leaves. One individual was captured in a pitfall trap, while all others were found among the leaf litter and under rotten trunks and fallen logs, through active search. Although we managed to gather six specimens from the sampling areas, given the large effort, it seems to be rare. The environment where B. scaea sp. nov. is found is dominated by a varzea forest (seasonally flooded forest by white-water rivers, such as the Madeira River), in some places with 35m tall trees, with dense leaf litter, crossed by small streams (Fig. 7), with the canopy frequently open due clearings. The altitude is about 90–100m a.s.l., however some higher grounds are also found, reaching up to about 300m a.s.l. Almost nothing is known about its biology, but a pregnant female (MZUSP 101735) carrying two eggs, observed through ventral skin, was found during the rainy season (December or January). Phylogenetic relationships: The final standard deviation of split frequencies on the BA on the concatenate matrix had a very low value (0.002), and also for 16 S (0.004) and c-mos (0.006) indicating stationarity. The concatenate dataset recovered Bachia scaea sp. nov. as sister to B. dorbignyi, but the support was not significantly high, in the 16 S results they are still recovered as sisters but although higher the support are also not significant; for the c-mos results B. scaea sp. nov. is recovered in a polytomy together with B. intermedia, B. m. monodactylus, B. m. parkeri, B. bicolor, B. barbouri, B. peruana, B. trisanale and B. panoplia, but the support for this polytomy is also low. In fact, the overall support for most of the branches in all topologies are low, although some well supported structure is also observed, such as in the lineage that includes B. huallagana, B. scolecoides and B. heteropa alleni (Fig. 8). Uncorrected p -distances ranged from 1 to 6 % for c-mos, and 4 to 12 % for 16 S among Bachia species (Table 2). Genetic distances between B. dorbignyi and B. scaea sp. nov. were 4 % for 16 S, and 2 % for c-mos. The description of Bachia scaea sp. nov. herein ends a long term stasis on the taxonomy of Amazonian Bachia species, especially in the B. dorbignyi group, which had its last species described by Dixon (1973) four decades ago. Avila-Pires (1995) in her comprehensive work on the lizards from the Brazilian Amazonia commented that some Bachia species deserved a more careful examination. Regarding B. peruana, she argued that in a series of specimens from northern Acre state (Cruzeiro do Sul region), Brazil, although some features were coincident with the typical form, there were also other features that overlapped with characters of other species, such as the contact between fifth supralabial and parietal, similar to B. dorbignyi, the absence of frontonasal, similar to B. trisanale (Avila-Pires 1995); and also the absence of clawed fingers, which would distinguish it from other known species of the B. dorbignyi group. Nonetheless, as she examined only a few specimens from that region, she could not evaluate this issue. We have also examined two of three specimens she mentioned, and compared them to the examined B. peruana and Dixon’s (1973) data, who analysed nearlly 40 specimens of this species, and we are positive that this Cruzeiro do Sul population do not represent B. peruana. Indeed they are morphologically intermediate between B. dorbignyi and B. scaea sp. nov. However, as only two specimens (one sub-adult and one juvenile) are available, and variation between them is considerable, such as the presence of frontoparietal in one (ZUEC 436), while it is absent in the other (ZUEC 435) we prefer to wait for additional material in order to decide on their taxonomic status. At that time it should be also important to examine the previously referred specimens from this area (Avila-Pires 2009; Bernarde et al. 2011; SpeciesLink 2011), all referred to as Bachia sp. in our map (Fig. 6). A few individuals from southern Acre (Rio Branco region) were also made available to us. This sample fully matched the diagnostic features of B. trisanale; a lower number of dorsal scales, frontonasal absent, presence of clawed-fingers, anal plate with three shields and the 4 th supralabial touching parietal. Although the list of Brazilian reptiles (Bernils & Costa 2012) and IUCN Red List (Lehr & Doan 2010) indicate the presence of B. trisanale in Brazil, they do not have specific data on its occurrence (R. Bernils and E. Lehr per. comm.), thus to our knowledge this is the first unequivocal record of B. trisanale in Brazil. The reported absence of clawed fingers in the northern Acre populations is also observed in all specimens of Bachia scaea sp. nov. In fact, clawed fingers are widespread among species of the B. dorbignyi group, thus its absence in B. scaea sp. nov. distinguishes it from all other species (Fig. 3), although its overall external morphology still resembles B. dorbignyi and B. peruana. Nonetheless, the molecular data is not conclusive on Bachia scaea sp. nov. relationship, as the mitochondrial data suggests a close relationship with B. dorbignyi and the nuclear data place it in a polytomy with several species; thus only further analyses using additional genetic markers may elucidate this question. If confirmed, its relationship with B. dorbignyi will lead to an interesting biogeographical scenario, as both are geographically separated by the Madeira River. This river has already been recognized as a geographical barrier among closely related lineages within several groups (Cracraft 1985; Ayres & Cluttonbrock 1992; Haffer 1992; Avila-Pires 1995; Fernandes et al. 2012; Ribas et al. 2012; Tsuji-Nishikido et al. 2012), and could be associated with the break on the distributional range of the ancestor of B. scaea sp. nov. and B. dorbignyi, leading to their differentiation. Nonetheless a more comprehensive phylogenetic work is still needed to address this matter. The upper Madeira River at the state of Rondônia crosses a lowland area that has been under a massive anthropic pressure. The varzea forests found at its right bank has been progressively anthropized, with the increasing of several destructive activities such as mining and pasturelands for cattle. Moreover, the installation of two hydroelectric dams, currently being built at the Madeira River, will probably transform drastically the landscape in the next few years. Fortunately, the left bank of Madeira River, where B. scaea sp. nov. is found, harbors more preserved forests, and also encompasses a National Park (Parque Nacional do Mapinguari) and higher lands, that will not be reached by the reservoirs, and hopefully some populations will not be affected. The results presented here indicates that the diversity of Bachia at the Brazilian Amazonia is far from being comprehensively known, and it is likely to change in the future through further taxonomic studies on widespread species, and more surveys on poorly sampled areas, which will certainly find that its richness is even higher than currently known.Published as part of Jr, Mauro Teixeira, Vechio, Francisco Dal, Sales Nunes, Pedro M., Neto, Antonio Mollo, Lobo, Luciana Moreira, Storti, Luis Fernando, Gaiga, Renato Augusto Junqueira, Dias, Pedro Henrique Freire & Rodrigues, Miguel Trefaut, 2013, A new species of Bachia Gray, 1845 (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae) from the western Brazilian Amazonia, pp. 401-420 in Zootaxa 3636 (3) on pages 403-416, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3636.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/22225
Erratum: Risk factors associated with adverse fetal outcomes in pregnancies affected by Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19): A secondary analysis of the WAPM study on COVID-19 (Journal of Perinatal Medicine (2020) 48:9 (950-958) DOI: 10.1515/jpm-2020-0355)
No full textDue to a technical error, the author list at the end of this article is unfortunately incorrect. Elif Gül Yapar Eyi is not a co-author, and therefore, his name and affiliation should not appear in the list. The correct author list and affiliations read as follows: Daniele Di Mascio, Cihat Sen, Gabriele Saccone, Alberto Galindo, Amos Grünebaum, Jun Yoshimatsu, Milan Stanojevic, AsimKurjak, Frank Chervenak, María Jos´e Rodríguez Suárez, Zita Maria Gambacorti-Passerini, María de los Angeles Anaya Baz, Esther Vanessa Aguilar Galán, Yolanda Cuñarro López, Juan Antonio De León Luis, Ignacio Cueto Hernández, Ignacio Herraiz, Cecilia Villalain, Roberta Venturella, Giuseppe Rizzo, Ilenia Mappa, Giovanni Gerosolima, Lars Hellmeyer, Josefine Königbauer, Giada Ameli, Tiziana Frusca, Nicola Volpe, Giovanni Battista Luca Schera, Stefania Fieni, Eutalia Esposito, Giuliana Simonazzi, Gaetana Di Donna, Aly Youssef, Anna Nunzia Della Gatta, Mariano Catello Di Donna, Vito Chiantera, Natalina Buono, Giulio Sozzi, Pantaleo Greco, Danila Morano, Beatrice Bianchi, Maria Giulia Lombana Marino, Federica Laraud, Arianna Ramone, Angelo Cagnacci, Fabio Barra, Claudio Gustavino, Simone Ferrero, Fabio Ghezzi, Antonella Cromi, Antonio Simone Laganá, Valentina Laurita Longo, Francesca Stollagli, Angelo Sirico, Antonio Lanzone, Lorenza Driul, Fabiana Cecchini D, Serena Xodo, Brian Rodriguez, Felipe Mercado-Olivares, Deena Elkafrawi, Giovanni Sisti, Rosanna Esposito, Antonio Coviello, Marco Cerbone, Maddalena Morlando, Antonio Schiattarella, Nicola Colacurci, Pasquale De Franciscis, Ilaria Cataneo, Marinella Lenzi, Fabrizio Sandri, Riccardo Buscemi, Giorgia Gattei, Francesca della Sala, Eleonora Valori, Maria Cristina Rovellotti, Elisa Done, Gilles Faron, Leonardo Gucciardo, Valentina Esposito, Flaminia Vena, Antonella Giancotti, Roberto Brunelli, Ludovico Muzii, Luigi Nappi, Felice Sorrentino, Lorenzo Vasciaveo, Marco Liberati, Danilo Buca, Martina Leombroni, Francesca Di Sebastiano, Luciano Di Tizio, Diego Gazzolo, Massimo Franchi, Quintino Cesare Ianniciello, Simone Garzon, Giuliano Petriglia, Leonardo Borrello, Albaro Jos´e Nieto-Calvache, Juan Manuel Burgos-Luna, Caroline Kadji, Andrew Carlin, Elisa Bevilacqua, Marina Moucho, Pedro Viana Pinto, Rita Figueiredo, Jos´e Morales Roselló, Gabriela Loscalzo, Alicia Martinez-Varea, Vincente Diago, Jesús S Jimenez Lopez, Alicia Yeliz Aykanat, Stefano Cosma, Andrea Carosso, Chiara Benedetto, Amanda Bermejo, Otto Henrique May Feuerschuette, Ozlem Uyaniklar, Sakine Rahimli Ocakouglu, Zeliha Atak, Reyhan Gündüz, Esra Tustas Haberal, Bernd Froessler, Anupam Parange, Peter Palm, Igor Samardjiski, Chiara Taccaliti, Erhan Okuyan, George Daskalakis, Renato Augusto Moreira de Sa, Alejandro Pittaro, Maria Luisa Gonzalez-Duran, Ana Concheiro Guisan, Serife Özlem Genç, Blanka Zlatohlávková, Anna Luengo Piqueras, Dolores Esteban Oliva, Aylin Pelin Cil, Olus Api, Panos Antsaklis, Liana Ples, Ioannis Kyvernitakis, Holger Maul, Marcel Malan, Albert Lila, Roberta Granese, Alfredo Ercoli, Giuseppe Zoccali, Andrea Villasco, Nicoletta Biglia, Ciuhodaru Madalina, Elena Costa, Caroline Daelemans, Axelle Pintiaux, Elisa Cueto, Eran Hadar, Sarah Dollinger, Noa A. Brzezinski Sinai, Erasmo Huertas, Pedro Arango, Amadeo Sanchez, Javier Alfonso Schvartzman, Liviu Cojocaru, Sifa Turan, Ozhan Turan, Maria Carmela Di Dedda, Rebeca Garrote Molpeceres, Snezana Zdjelar, Tanja Premru-Srsen, Lilijana Kornhauser Cerar, Mirjam Druškovic, Valentina De Robertis, Vedran Stefanovic, Irmeli Nupponen, Kaisa Nelskylä, Zulfiya Khodjaeva, Ksenia A. Gorina, Gennady T. Sukhikh, Giuseppe Maria Maruotti, Silvia Visentin, Erich Cosmi, Jacopo Ferrari, Alessandra Gatti, Daniela Luvero, Roberto Angioli, Ludovica Puri, Marco Palumbo, Giusella D’Urso, Francesco Colaleo, Agnese Maria Chiara Rapisarda, Ilma Floriana Carbone, Antonio Mollo, Giovanni Nazzaro, Mariavittoria Locci, Maurizio Guida, Attilio Di Spiezio Sardo, Pierluigi Benedetti Panici, Vincenzo Berghella, Maria Elena Flacco, Lamberto Manzoli, Giuseppe Bifulco, Giovanni Scambia, Fulvio Zullo and Francesco D’Antonio Flaminia Vena, Antonella Giancotti, Roberto Brunelli, Ludovico Muzii and Pierluigi Benedetti Panici, Department of Maternal and Child Health and Urological Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy Rosanna Esposito, Antonio Coviello, Marco Cerbone, Giuseppe Maria Maruotti, Giovanni Nazzaro, Mariavittoria Locci, Maurizio Guida, Attilio Di Spiezio Sardo, Giuseppe Bifulco and Fulvio Zullo, Department of Neuroscience, Reproductive Sciences and Dentistry, School of Medicine, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy Ignacio Herraiz and Cecilia Villalain, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Fetal Medicine Unit, Maternal and Child Health and Development Network, University Hospital 12 de Octubre, Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain María Jos´e Rodríguez Suárez, Hospital Universitario Central de Asturias, Asturias, Spain Zita Maria Gambacorti-Passerini, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Ciudad Real University General Hospital, Ciudad Real, Spain María de los Angeles Anaya Baz and Esther Vanessa Aguilar Galán, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Ciudad Real University General Hospital, Ciudad Real, Spain; University of Castilla-La Mancha, Ciudad Real, Spain Yolanda Cuñarro López, Juan Antonio De León Luis and Ignacio Cueto Hernández, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Fetal Medicine Unit, Maternal and Child Health and Development Network, Gregorio Marañón Hospital, Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain Roberta Venturella, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, School of Medicine, Magna Graecia University of Catanzaro, Catanzaro, Italy Giuseppe Rizzo, University of Roma Tor Vergata, Division of Maternal Fetal Medicine, Ospedale Cristo Re Roma, Rome, Italy; Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, The First I.M. Sechenov Moscow State Medical University, Moscow, Russia Ilenia Mappa, University of Roma Tor Vergata, Division of Maternal Fetal Medicine, Ospedale Cristo Re Roma, Rome, Italy Giovanni Gerosolima, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Ospedale AOSG Moscati, Avellino, Italy Lars Hellmeyer, Josefine Königbauer and Giada Ameli, Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, Vivantes Klinikum im Friedrichshain, Berlin, Germany Tiziana Frusca, Nicola Volpe, Giovanni Battista Luca Schera and Stefania Fieni, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Parma, Parma, Italy Eutalia Esposito, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Ospedale di San Leonardo, Castellammare di Stabia, Italy Giuliana Simonazzi, Gaetana Di Donna, Aly Youssef and Anna Nunzia Della Gatta, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Bologna, Sant’Orsola- Malpighi University Hospital, Bologna, Italy Mariano Catello Di Donna, Vito Chiantera, Natalina Buono and Giulio Sozzi, Department of Gynaecologic Oncology, University of Palermo, Palermo, Sicilia, Italy Pantaleo Greco, Danila Morano, Beatrice Bianchi and Maria Giulia Lombana Marino, Department ofMedical Sciences, Section of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Azienda Ospedaliera-Universitaria Sant’Anna, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy Federica Laraud, Arianna Ramone, Angelo Cagnacci, Fabio Barra, Claudio Gustavino and Simone Ferrero, Academic Unit of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, IRCCS Ospedale Policlinico, San Martino, Genova, Italy Fabio Ghezzi, Antonella Cromi and Antonio Simone Laganà, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, “Filippo Del Ponte” Hospita University of Insubria, Varese, Italy Valentina Laurita Longo, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A Gemelli IRCCS – Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy; Istituto di Clinica Ostetrica e Ginecologica, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy; and Queen Margaret University, Institute for Global Health and Development, Edinburgh, UK Francesca Stollagli and Ludovica Puri, Istituto di Clinica Ostetrica e Ginecologica, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy Angelo Sirico and Giovanni Scambia, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A Gemelli IRCCS – Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy Antonio Lanzone, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A Gemelli IRCCS – Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy; Istituto di Clinica Ostetrica e Ginecologica, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy Lorenza Driul, Fabiana Cecchini D and Serena Xodo, Clinic of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Udine, Udine, Italy Brian Rodriguez, Felipe Mercado-Olivares, Deena Elkafrawi and Giovanni Sisti, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, New York Health and Hospitals/Lincoln Bronx, The Bronx, NY, USA Maddalena Morlando, Antonio Schiattarella, Nicola Colacurci and Pasquale De Franciscis, Department of Woman, Child and General and Specialized Surgery, University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Naples, Italy Ilaria Cataneo, Marinella Lenzi and Fabrizio Sandri, Unit of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Ospedale Maggiore, Bologna, Italy Riccardo Buscemi, Giorgia Gattei, Francesca della Sala and Maria Cristina Rovellotti, Department of Translational Medicine, University of Eastern Piedmont, Novara, Italy Eleonora Valori, Department of Translational Medicine, University of Eastern Piedmont, Novara, Italy; Hospital Castelli, Verbania, Italy Elisa Done, Gilles Faron and Leonardo Gucciardo, UZ Brussel, Universitair Ziekenhuis, Brussel, Belgium Valentina Esposito, University of Milan, Milan, Italy Luigi Nappi, Felice Sorrentino and Lorenzo Vasciaveo, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Foggia, Foggia, Italy
Diagnóstico preventivo de laminite em bovinos de leite
No full textThis research aimed to develop a Fuzzy inference based on expert system to help preventing lameness in dairy cattle. Hoof length, nutritional parameters and floor material properties (roughness) were used to build the Fuzzy inference system. The expert system architecture was defined using Unified Modelling Language (UML). Data were collected in a commercial dairy herd using two different subgroups (H-1 and H-2), in order to validate the Fuzzy inference functions. The numbers of True Positive (TP), False Positive (FP), True Negative (TN), and False Negative (FN) responses were used to build the classifier system up, after an established gold standard comparison. A Lesion Incidence Possibility (LIP) developed function indicates the chances of a cow becoming lame. The obtained lameness percentage in H-1 and H-2 was 8.40% and 1.77%, respectively. The system estimated a Lesion Incidence Possibility (LIP) of 5.00% and 2.00% in H-1 and H-2, respectively. The system simulation presented 3.40% difference from real cattle lameness data for H-1, while for H-2, it was 0.23%; indicating the system efficiency in decision-making.Esta pesquisa teve como objetivo desenvolver um sistema especialista baseado em inferência Fuzzy para prevenir a laminite em vacas leiteiras. O comprimento do casco, parâmetros nutricionais e propriedades do piso (rugosidade) foram utilizados para construir o sistema de inferência Fuzzy. A arquitetura do sistema especialista foi definida utilizando a Unified Modeling Language (UML). Os dados foram coletados em um rebanho leiteiro comercial, usando dois diferentes subgrupos (H1 e H2), a fim de validar as funções de inferência Fuzzy. O número de respostas Verdadeiro Positivo (TP), Falso Positivo (FP), Verdadeiro Negativo (TN) e Falso Negativo (FN) foram utilizados para a construção do classificador, contra um padrão-ouro estabelecido. A função da possibilidade de incidência da lesão (LIP) desenvolvida indica a chance de a vaca apresentar laminite. A percentagem de laminite obtida em H1 foi de 8,40%, e em H2 foi de 1,77%. Os resultados alcançados estimam uma Possibilidade de incidência de lesão (LIP) de 5,00% em H1, e de 2,00% em H2. A simulação utilizando o sistema em H1 apresentou a diferença de 3,40% a partir dos dados reais de incidência de laminite, enquanto em H2 a diferença entre a simulação e os dados reais foi de 0,23%, indicando a eficiência do sistema de tomada de decisão.Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Instituto de Natureza e CulturaUniversidade Estadual Paulista, Departamento de Engenharia de Biossistemas, Faculdade de Ciências e Engenharia de Tup
Preventive diagnosis of dairy cow lameness
No full textThis research aimed to develop a Fuzzy inference based on expert system to help preventing lameness in dairy cattle. Hoof length, nutritional parameters and floor material properties (roughness) were used to build the Fuzzy inference system. The expert system architecture was defined using Unified Modelling Language (UML). Data were collected in a commercial dairy herd using two different subgroups (H1 and H2), in order to validate the Fuzzy inference functions. The numbers of True Positive (TP), False Positive (FP), True Negative (TN), and False Negative (FN) responses were used to build the classifier system up, after an established gold standard comparison. A Lesion Incidence Possibility (LIP) developed function indicates the chances of a cow becoming lame. The obtained lameness percentage in H1 and H2 was 8.40% and 1.77%, respectively. The system estimated a Lesion Incidence Possibility (LIP) of 5.00% and 2.00% in H1 and H2, respectively. The system simulation presented 3.40% difference from real cattle lameness data for H1, while for H2, it was 0.23%; indicating the system efficiency in decision-making.Universidade Estadual Paulista 'JÚlio de Mesquita Filho', UNESP, Câmpus de Tupã, SPUniversidade Paulista - UNIP -Câmpus Indianópolis, São Paulo - SPPesquisador da Universidade Estadual de Campinas/UNICAMP, Campinas - SPInstituto de Natureza e Cultura - INC da Universidade Federal, Do Amazonas - UFAM, Benjamin Constant - AMUniversidade Estadual Paulista 'JÚlio de Mesquita Filho', UNESP, Câmpus de Tupã, S
On the snake Siphlophis worontzowi (Prado, 1940): notes on its distribution, diet and morphological data
No full textWe provide geographic data for the poorly known dipsadid Siphlophis worontzowi including the first records to the Tocantins state and on the left bank of Madeira River at Rondônia State. Our data also extend its distribution on Mato Grosso State. We also provide new morphometric, meristic and ecological data to the knowledge of this species
