Actions, indicators, and outputs in urban biodiversity plans: A multinational analysis of city practice.

Urban biodiversity offers important benefits to residents and may be crucial to reaching global biodiversity conservation targets, but little research has been conducted on how cities actually plan for biodiversity. In this study, we conducted a mixed methods content analysis of biodiversity plans by 39 cities around the world to determine whether they measured their actions, how they did so (via quantitative indicators and qualitative outputs), and what topics these actions and measures covered. We based our analytical framework on the Singapore Index on Cities' Biodiversity (also known as the City Biodiversity Index), a widely applied 23-indicator index that helps cities track their progress in biodiversity planning.

[The early detection of hearing disorders in infancy as a result of interdisciplinary cooperation].

The early perception of hearing loss in children is problematic yet, but to improve, if a screening is inclusive in basis tend of crèches.

Morphometric analysis of normal skeletal muscles in infancy, childhood and adolescence. An autopsy study.

The deltoid and lateral vastus muscles of 113 subjects aged from 1 week to 20 years who had suddenly died from accidents were studied at autopsy 8-48 h after death (mean 22 h). All muscles studied gave a positive histochemical reaction for ATPase after alkaline preincubation and for NADH-TR; the fact that the dehydrogenase was still active indicated that the material was reasonably well preserved. The muscles of children shortly after birth contained about 40% type 1 fibres; the percentage of these fibres increased to about 60% within the first 2 postnatal years and then remained constant.

Changes in human skeletal muscles due to ageing. Histological and histochemical observations on autopsy material.

Morphological changes in human skeletal muscle with ageing are reported. Samples from the deltoid and the vastus lateralis muscles from 126 subjects, aged 20-80 years, were studied by light microscopy. The patients died suddenly due to accidents or from fatal diseases.