In the past most diagnostic studies of frontal cyclone development have been carried out through use of quasigeostrophic models. In this paper we present the results of vertical motions obtained from a 5-level general balance model. Nongeostrophic effects such as deformation and beta term of the balance equations, divergence, vertical advection, and the twisting term of the complete vorticity e...

The basic ingredients for tropical cyclogenesis have been well established: a sufficiently deep warm ocean layer, low-level cyclonic vorticity, weak vertical wind shear, and deep moist convection (e. et al. 2008) have attributed cyclogenesis to a variety of low-level precursor systems that enhance one or more of these ingredients. These studies have traditionally focused on features such as the...

disappeared for 2 days, before reappearing. The trough plasma erlotinib level was 224 ng/ml at day 7 after erlotinib intake. Utilizing a biweekly schedule, a rapid and sustained complete neurological remission was observed and maintained for 6 months. Grade 2 rash and diarrhea were the worse toxicities. Mean trough plasma erlotinib level before each intake was 439 ng/ml (n = 12; range 251–761)....

INTRODUCTION Hyperhomocysteinemia frequently occurs after renal transplantation. We therefore assessed whether serum homocysteine (Hcy) concentrations were correlated with clinical, paraclinical, and arterial Doppler parameters among renal transplant patients. METHODS A cross-sectional study was performed on 47 patients (30 males, 17 females) who received unrelated living donor renal transpla...

The continental margin off northeast Australia, comprising the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) platform and Queensland Trough, is the largest tropical mixed siliciclastic /carbonate depositional system in existence. We describe a suite of 35 piston cores and two Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) sites from a 130 × 240 km rectangular area of the Queensland Trough, the slope and basin setting east of the cen...

Methods CVID is one of the 6 FDA-approved uses for IVIG, and is required lifelong in these patients. Systemic adverse reactions occur in approximately 2-6% of infusions , while thrombotic events are very rare. A Therapeutic dilemma arose when our patient had a stroke after an IVIG infusion. After the stroke, our patient’s IgG level fell to 1.17 g/L, resulting in recurrent pneumonia. Cautious do...

Dr. Y. Pirson, Cliniques Universitaires St. Luc, Department of Nephrology, Avenue Hippocrate 10, B-1200 Brussels (Belgium) Dear Sir, Calcium channel blockers are increasingly used in kidney graft recipients not only to lower blood pressure but also to prevent or attenuate ischemia or ciclosporin (CS)-induced graft dysfunction [1–3]. Their usefulness however is limited by a potentially deleterio...

The ionospheric mid-latitude trough minimum position as a function of geomagnetic storm time is identified and investigated statistically in terms of the category and the intensity of storms. The data of ion density derived from DMSP and DEMETER satellites were used to extract the trough position. The variations of mid-latitude trough in 41 moderate magnetic storms and 88 intense magnetic storm...