We study the space complexity of implementing long-lived and one-shot adaptive renaming from multi-reader multi-writer registers, in an asynchronous distributed system with n processes. As a result of an f -adaptive renaming algorithm each participating process gets a distinct name in the range {1, . . . , f (k)} provided k processes participate. Let f : {1, . . . ,n}→N be a non-decreasing func...

The performance of two immunoturbidimetric modifications for rheumatoid factor (RF) testing, which differ with respect to the means of complement inactivation (heat treatment and inactivation with polyvinyl sulphonate), were compared in serum samples from 87 patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and from 403 healthy subjects. IgM-rheumatoid factor titres were also measured with an enzyme link...

The aim of the study was to determine the prevalence and evolution of intestinalis parasites in hospital area. For the present investigation, 2401 samples, including 403 urines and 1998 stool, were collected. The age of patients ranged from 2 months to 87 years with a mean of 24.24 ± 18.58 years. Females predominated (51.1%) with a sex ratio of 1.04. The average prevalence of parasitic infectio...

Acute inhalation toxicity of chemicals has conventionally been assessed by the median lethal concentration (LC(50)) test (organisation for economic co-operation and development (OECD) TG 403). Two new methods, the recently adopted acute toxic class method (ATC; OECD TG 436) and a proposed fixed concentration procedure (FCP), have recently been considered, but statistical evaluations of these me...

Currently allergic rhinitis is accepted to be multi factorial disease. Inherited susceptibility plays a major role along with the other environmental factors in the development of this disease. Therefore, it is important to search for genetic markers, associated with the development of allergic rhinitis that enables us to understand the pathogenesis, treatment and prevention of the disease. Thi...

Heparan sulfate proteoglycans (HSPGs) are components of the basement membrane (BM) of various tissues. They consist of a core protein and negatively charged glycosaminoglycan side chains: the heparan sulfate (HS) moieties. In psoriasis, uninvolved skin of psoriasis patients and in normal skin, the distribution of HSPGs was studied immunohistochemically by means of three different monoclonal ant...

The highly pathogenic avian influenza (H5N1 subtype) recurred in Nigeria after 9 months period of no reported case. A critical look at possible sources of the re-occurrence was desirable. The objective of this study was to determine whether avian influenza viruses were present at reasonably detectable levels (0.5%) in possible "bridge" species of wild and domestic birds. The study was conducted...

1 1 2 Diversification of intrinsic motoneuron electrical properties during 3 normal development and botulinum toxin-induced muscle paralysis in early postnatal mice 4 5 ST Nakanishi and PJ Whelan 6 Hotchkiss Brain Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB Canada 7 8 Running title: Diversification of motoneuron properties during development 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Address for Correspondenc...

A retrospective review of the casenotes of 403 children admitted to hospital with febrile convulsions was performed to estimate the frequency of symptomatic urinary tract infection and examine medical practice in making this diagnosis. A total of 228 (56%) children had urine cultured: 150 bag specimens, 76 clean voided samples, and two suprapubic aspirates. There were 13 'probable' and six 'pos...