Differential interference contrast (DIC) microscopy (Nomarsky optics) readily demonstrates the formation of “pits” or crater-like depressions in red cell membranes of splenectomized individuals. Splenic reticuloendothelial dysfunction characteristic of many patients with sickle cell disease (SCD) can be demonstrated by technetium spleen scans, but this technique is expensive, requires injection...

The phrase ‘global land grab’ has become a catch-all framework to describe and analyze the current explosion of (trans)national commercial land transactions revolving around the production and sale of food and biofuels. Initially deployed and popularised especially by activist groups deeply concerned and opposed to such transactions from an environmental-agrarian justice perspective, the signif...

The “convex hull problem” is a catch-all phrase for computing various descriptions of a polytope that is either specified as the convex hull of a finite point set in R or as the intersection of a finite number of halfspaces. We first define the various problems and discuss their mutual relationships (Section 26.1). We discuss the very special case of the irredundancy problem in Section 26.2. We...

The article deals in problem with constructing of space fictional world texts collective poems Jolly Cemetery by Vasyl Stus (1971), and some parameters poetics the modeling (imagenary, genre, composition). Radical points interest to topography local specifics territories are: total elimination markers for creating mythical universal (here everywhere) detailed presentation landscape or interier ...

Capture–recapture experiments are conducted to estimate population parameters such as size, survival rates, and capture rates. Typically, individuals captured given unique tags, then recaptured over several time periods with the assumption that these tags not lost. However, for some populations, tag loss cannot be assumed negligible. The Jolly-Seber model is used when no-tag-loss invalid. Furth...