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\"The miserable lives of handloom weavers are evident enough in every part of India where the handloom products are not all sustainable. There have been a lot of strategies to revoke the industry for many times in the way of schemes and interventions, but the efforts are all in vain and the livelihood of weavers is still alarming. Though there have been innumerable problems causing the decreased level of satisfaction of weavers, factors such as unorganised operations, product diversifications, credit needs, raw material, less returns and marketing issues are extracted to be critical in influencing the living conditions of weavers. The study is aimed to identify and assess the impact of certain critical factors on the increased levels of living weavers’ conditions in Srikakulam district, Andra Pradesh state. The study was carried out with a method mix of descriptive design, quantitative approach, non- probability sampling of convenience technique and cross- sectional survey method. The data collected was analysis through influencing statistics of factor analysis and multi regression analysis to extract the independent variables and explain the dependent variable respectively. Specific recommendations were offered be the research out of management implications with the interpretation. This paper explains the impact of each factor on the survival and sustainability of handloom weavers.\"

In conservation and evolutionary ecology, quantifying and accounting for individual heterogeneity in vital rates of open populations is of particular interest. Individual random effects have been used in capture–recapture models, adopting a Bayesian framework with Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) to carry out estimation and inference. As an alternative, we show how numerical integration via the Gauss‐Hermite quadrature (GHQ) can be efficiently used to approximate the capture–recapture model likelihood with individual random effects. We compare the performance of the two approaches (MCMC vs. GHQ) and finite mixture models using two examples, including data on European Dippers and Sociable Weavers. Besides relying on standard statistical tools, GHQ was found to be faster than MCMC simulations. Our approach is implemented in program E‐SURGE. Overall, capture–recapture mixed models (CR2Ms), implemented either via a GHQ approximation or MCMC simulations, have potential important applications in population biology.

Weaver syndrome is a rare disorder of unknown etiology characterized by skeletal overgrowth, distinctive craniofacial and digital abnormalities and advanced bone age. In general, craniofacial abnormalities that cause difficulty with tracheal intubation may improve, worsen, or remain unchanged as craniofacial structures mature. Furthermore, there is an estimated risk in these children of ≤1.09% of rhabdomyolysis or malignant hyperpyrexia. We report a case of a boy with Weaver syndrome who underwent emergency evacuation of extra-dural hematoma under general anesthesia.

Orb-weaver spiders weave large webs that are capable of entrapping various species of birds. We report a case of a male Painted Bunting (Passerina ciris) caught in the web of a giant lichen orb-weaver (Araneus bicentenarius). Most cases of bird entrapment in spider webs involve spiders with larger webs (often Nephila sp.) and very small birds, usually hummingbirds. Our case is noteworthy because we report a relatively large bird caught in a relatively small web. Furthermore, the geographic distribution of A. bicentenarius extends beyond the tropics and subtropics, which is where most reported cases of bird entrapment occur. This observation suggests that even small orb-weaver webs may pose a threat to relatively large birds, and that this risk may extend well beyond the regions most commonly associated with entrapment.

BACKGROUND: This paper presents a comparative study of moss diversity in three collection sites in the South Shetland Islands (King George, Elephant, and Nelson Islands) and one in the Antarctic Continent (Hope Bay, Antarctic Peninsula). In the King George, Elephant, and Nelson Islands, the collections were done in ice-free areas during the austral summers of years 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, and 1994. In Hope Bay, the collections were done in the 2009 summer (February). All collections were deposited in the HCB (Chaves Batista Herbarium). FINDINGS: The King George Area is the most diverse area and the Hope Bay has the lowest diversity stats. The diversity stats for each region and the similarities between both are presented. CONCLUSION: This results suggested that harder climatic conditions determine lower diversity for the bryoflora.

In case of patients with spinal cord injury and concomitant acromioclavicular (AC) joint-dislocation the treatment is challenging, as in this special patient group the function of the shoulder joint is critical because patients depend on the upper limb for mobilization and wheelchair-locomotion. Therefore the goal of this study was to examine, if the treatment of chronic AC-joint dislocation using the Weaver-Dunn procedure augmented with a hook-plate in patients with a spinal cord injury makes early postoperative wheelchair mobilization and the wheelchair transfer with full weight-bearing possible. In this case the Weaver-Dunn procedure with an additive hook-plate was performed in a 34-year-old male patient with a complete paraplegia and a posttraumatic chronic AC-joint dislocation. The patient was allowed to perform his wheelchair transfers with full weight bearing on the first post-operative day. The removal of the hook-plate was performed four months after implantation. At the time of follow-up the patient could use his operated shoulder with full range of motion without restrictions in his activities of daily living or his wheel-chair transfers.

We describe a girl with Sotos syndrome presenting at two and a half years age with developmental delay. She has camptodactyly which has not previously been reported in Sotos syndrome but is a common finding in Weaver syndrome. Both these conditions have been reported to have NSD1 gene mutations. This report is consistent with the conditions being allelic.