Identifikasi Pola Morfologi Perkampungan Adat Nagari Koto Hilalang Sumatera Barat Berdasarkan Kearifan Lokal

Nagari Koto Hilalang is one of the indigenous villages that located in Gunung Talang district, Solok Regency. This village has been known as one of tourism center in Solok regency referred to the citizen’s activity. The existency of the local wisdom affects the society’s activity due to the pattern of the area’s morphology. The presence of the local wisdom certainly form a morphological pattern and make it unique and different from the other regions. This research questioned the morphology of Nagari Koto Hilalang based on the local wisdom’s morphology. To answer the question of the research, this scientist used the qualitative and quantitative techniques. The analysis result obtained that the morphology pattern of Nagari Koto Hilalang is arranged based on the local wisdom of Minangkabau’s culture, such as taratak, dusun, koto, dan nagari. The rules of society that cause its morphology region belongs to form Organic Pattern where Nagari Koto Hilalang formed naturally/spontaneously because of the growing needs of society that is bound to the custom rule which has been hereditary from ancestors of the minangkabau people. In this study also provided recommendations of referrals for indigenous leaders, government, and community in sustaining indigenous villages (Nagari) morphology of Koto Hilalang.

The first zoeal stage morphology of Achelous spinimanus (Latreille), A. gibbesii (Stimpson), and Portunus sayi (Gibbes) (Decapoda, Brachyura) provides support for molecular phylogeny

Taxonomic rearrangements were recently proposed for some members of Portunus Weber and Cronius Stimpson, including the re-elevation of the status of the subgenus Achelous De Haan to accommodate 21 American species. In the present study the first zoea of Achelous spinimanus, type species of the genus, A. gibbesii and Portunus sayi were obtained from laboratory-hatched specimens. The morphology of the first zoeal stage of A. spinimanus is described and illustrated for the first time. Those of A. gibbesii and P. sayi are redescribed in detail using standard terminology and compared with previous unpublished descriptions. Differences are listed and remarks from a comparative analysis of available descriptions of other portunid genera and species with a known first zoeal stage are furnished. The larval morphology pattern observed in the studied species corroborates a previous hypothesis on the phylogeny of the group.

Study of Specific Dermatoses of Pregnancy and Skin Diseases affected by Pregnancy in a Tertiary Care Rural Hospital

Aims and objectives: To study the various specific dermatoses of pregnancy and changes due to pregnancy. Study design: A cross-sectional study was conducted in a tertiary care center, Department of Dermatology and Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Materials and methods: A total of 400 pregnant females were enrolled and studied for various cutaneous changes of pregnancy. In pregnant females with specific dermatoses of pregnancy, detailed clinical examination was done regarding the morphology, pattern, and distribution of lesions. Routine blood investigations were done in all pregnant females. Biopsy was done wherever required. Results: Among 400 pregnant females, we found 38 (9.5%) to be having specific dermatosis of pregnancy. The most common specific dermatosis of pregnancy was prurigo of pregnancy (4.75%), followed by pruritic urticarial papules and plaques (PUPP) of pregnancy (4%), intrahepatic cholestasis (ICP) of pregnancy (0.25%), and pruritic folliculitis of pregnancy (0.125%). In 9.5% females, skin diseases were caused due to pregnancy.

Variaciones alométricas durante el crecimiento en siete especies de garzas (Aves: Ardeidae)

The order Ciconiiformes include wading bird species of sizes from medium to high, with body growth dynamic that can be analyzed to enlighten micro evolutionary trends. Egrets and herons (family Ardeidae) evolved from a common ancestor, but there are differences in adult body shapes, and their evolution has been suggested to be based on heterochronic processes. However, previous researches on growth have focused only in lineal dimension, and alometric changes have not been studied. In the current paper I described changes in body proportions during growth in seven ardeid species, and analyzed body growth under a phylogenetic point of view, to identify the primitive morphology pattern among genus Butorides and Nycticorax. For this purpose, I calculated bill/tarsus rate in 353 nestlings, measured between 1998 and 2006, and assessed their changes with age and body weight. All species showed marked differences in proportion changes extension between hatching and an analogous growth moment, except Bubulcus that grows almost isometrically. Alometric changes during growth and at hatch, generate a differential growth that produced the different adult morphologies expressed among egrets and herons. The general trends were toward a slight increase in the middle of the growth period up to a lowering to almost the same initial proportions. Growth in the first life stages tends to be more isometric and differences get higher latter in growth. The hypothesis of Nycticorax as peramorphic morfotype is more parsimonious with changes trends in the group, resulting in a relative extremities extension with positive alometry in bill and tarsus in all species. This hypothesis is consistent with a gradual hipermorphosis that reaches a maximum expression in Ardea.

Carapace shape of some aeglid crabs: plasticity at different levels

Geometric morphometric techniques were applied for a better comprehension of inter- and intraspecific morphological variability of freshwater aeglid crabs. Carapace morphological patterns were used to address hypothesis regarding 1) the simple existence of local adaptations or 2) actual stable evolutionary features within the lineages studied. Two clades were included in this analysis: the former encompassing the closely related species Aegla castro, A. parana, A. schmitti, and the latter including the closely-related species A. ligulata, A. longirostri and A. inconspicua. Overall, distinct carapace shapes were found not only between species but also among different populations of same species. In some cases, species belonging to distinct, distantly related clades were more similar in carapace morphology than to closely related species of the same clade. This meant that there was no stable carapace morphology pattern for each major lineage. Results suggest that carapace of these crabs is plastic within lineages, although has a stable, unchangeable component readily recognizable by the geometric morphometric analysis at the species level, plus a more plastic component that may change according to the environment in which they inhabit.

Evaluation of facial morphology and sagittal relationship between dental arches in primary and mixed dentition

OBJECTIVE: To assess facial morphology (Pattern) and sagittal relationship between dental arches (Class), and establish a potential association between them and the variables sex, age and ethnicity, among schoolchildren aged between 4 and 9 years old (mean age of 6.7 years) in primary and mixed dentitions.METHODS: The sample comprised 875 children (457 males and 418 females) attending schools in Descalvado, São Paulo, Brazil. An attempt was made with a view to establish a potential association between children's morphological features with sex, age and ethnicity.RESULTS: Descriptive analysis revealed a predominance of facial Pattern I (69.9 %) and Class I (67.4 %). Statistical tests (p < 0.001) showed that Class I was more frequent among Pattern I children, whereas Class II prevailed among Pattern II, and Class III was frequent among Pattern I and III children. Ethnicity was the only variable associated with facial pattern.CONCLUSIONS: Results suggest that facial pattern and sagittal relationship between dental arches tend to be correlated. Ethnicity was associated with facial pattern, with Pattern I being the most recurrent among Caucasians and facial Pattern II being recurrent among Afro-descendant subjects.