Lolium multiflorum (Lm) grass pollen is the major cause of pollinosis in Southern Brazil. The objectives of this study were to investigate immunodominant components of Lm pollen allergens and the cross-reactivity of IgE with commercial grass pollen allergen extracts. Thirty-eight serum samples from patients with seasonal allergic rhinitis (SAR), 35 serum samples from patients with perennial all...

BACKGROUND AND STUDY AIMS l-Menthol (LM), sprayed on the distal gastric mucosa, is a safe antispasmodic agent used during esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD). However, it seems to affect gastric mucosal endoscopic findings. Therefore, we evaluated whether LM causes specific changes and impacts the endoscopic morphology of gastric lesions. PATIENTS AND METHODS A total of 98 patients scheduled to ...

Iterative gradient methods such as Levenberg-Marquardt (LM) are in widespread use for source localization from electroencephalographic (EEG) and magnetoencephalographic (MEG) signals. Unfortunately, LM depends sensitively on the initial guess, necessitating repeated runs. This, combined with LM's high per-step cost, makes its computational burden quite high. To reduce this burden, we trained a ...

Although peritoneal resident macrophages (PRM) or peritoneal exudate macrophages (PEM) were activated by lipopolysaccharide (LPS) to kill tumor cells in vitro, lung macrophages (LM) obtained by mincing lung tissues or by harvesting bronchial lavage were not activated by LPS under any experimental conditions, i.e., different LPS concentrations, incubation times and cytotoxicity assay methods. Th...

Bulletin Board Systems (BBS), similar to blogs, newsgroups, online forums, etc., are online broadcasting spaces where people can exchange ideas and make announcements. As BBS are becoming valuable repositories of knowledge and information, effective BBS search engines are required to make the information universally accessible and useful. However, the techniques that have been proven successful...

A panel data regression model with heteroskedastic as well as spatially correlated disturbancesis considered, and a joint LM test for homoskedasticity and no spatial correlation is derived. In addition, a conditional LM test for no spatial correlation given heteroskedasticity, as well as a conditional LM test for homoskedasticity given spatial correlation, are also derived. These LM tests are c...

We study the quotient complex ∆(B lm)/S l ≀ Sm as a means of deducing facts about the ring k[x 1 ,. .. , x lm ] S l ≀Sm. It is shown in [He] that ∆(B lm)/S l ≀ Sm is shellable when l = 2, implying Cohen-Macaulayness of k[x 1 ,. .. , x 2m ] S 2 ≀Sm for any field k. We now confirm for all pairs (l, m) with l > 2 and m > 1 that ∆(B lm)/S l ≀ Sm is not Cohen-Macaulay over Z Z/2Z Z, but it is Cohen-...

Language model (LM) adaptation is important for both speech and language processing. It is often achieved by combining a generic LM with a topic-specific model that is more relevant to the target document. Unlike previous work on unsupervised LM adaptation, this paper investigates how effectively using named entity (NE) information, instead of considering all the words, helps LM adaptation. We ...

AIMS To investigate the influence of body weight (BW), fat mass (FM) and lean mass (LM) on the bone mineral density (BMD) of several areas of the skeleton. PARTICIPANTS Sixty one white postmenopausal women (50.1 +/- 4.8 years). MEASUREMENTS Measurement of BMD by dual energy x-ray absorptiometry. The results were analyzed by linear regression and the slopes of each curve were compared. RES...

In this paper we provide a common framework for different stratified $LM$-convergence spaces introduced recently. To this end, we slightly alter the definition of a stratified $LMN$-convergence tower space. We briefly discuss the categorical properties and show that the category of these spaces is a Cartesian closed and extensional topological category. We also study the relationship of our cat...