Pseudoscorpions (Arachnida, Pseudoscorpiones) from French Polynesia with first species records and description of new species.

A new species from Tahiti is described here based on external characters. This is the first record of the family Olpiidae Banks, 1895 from French Polynesia. Additionally, the genus Harvey, 1991 is recorded from French Polynesia for the first time with the full description of new-found specimens of (Beier, 1932).

emCopidothrips octarticulatus/em recorded from Tahiti, with first description of the male and larvae (Thysanoptera, Thripidae, Panchaetothripinae).

Heliothrips (Parthenothrips) octarcticulatus was originally described by Schmutz (1913) from Sri Lanka. Subsequently, Hood (1954) described from Taiwan a new genus and species Copidothrips formosus, and then Stannard and Mitri (1962) described a further new genus and species, Mesostenothrips kraussi, from Kiribati and Gibert Islands. Bhatti (1967, 1990), recognized that only a single genus and species was involved amongst these names, established the resultant synonymies, and recorded the species octarcticulatus from various localities between the Seychelles and five different Pacific Island groups.

A comparison of anxiety, depression and quality of life between device shock and nonshock groups in implantable cardioverter defibrillator recipients.

Background: Using standardized scales, we assessed the point prevalence, the severity of anxiety and depressive disorders, and the quality of life (QOL) in implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) recipients who received a device shock.

Methods: Forty research subjects with device shocks (Group 1) and 25 without shocks (Group 2) were interviewed after ICD implantation using the Mini International Neuropsychiatric Interview (MINI), the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) and the Medical Outcomes Study 36-Item Short Form Health Survey (SF-36).

Results: The point prevalence of anxiety disorders was higher in Group 1 (37.

Demonstration of in silico docking at a large scale on grid infrastructure.

WISDOM stands for World-wide In Silico Docking On Malaria. First step toward enabling the in silico drug discovery pipeline on a grid infrastructure, this CPU consuming application generating large data flows was deployed successfully on EGEE, the largest grid infrastructure in the world, during the summer 2005. 46 million docking scores were computed in 6 weeks.

[What etiologic investigations should be done following recurrent pulmonary embolism?].

Recurrence of pulmonary embolism can occur in presence of coagulation disorders or cancer. It can also develop without any of these factors. Coagulation tests should search for abnormalities such as inherited deficiencies of antithrombin, protein C, protein S, factor V mutation, variation of the prothrombin gene, hyperhomocysteinaemia, lupus anticoagulant, antiphospholipid antibodies.