Using the “glueball dominance” picture of the mixing between qq̄ mesons of different hidden flavors, we establish new glueball-meson mass relations which serve as a basis for glueball spectral systematics. For the tensor glueball mass 2.3 ± 0.1 GeV used as an input parameter, these relations predict the following glueball masses: M(0) ≃ 1.65 ± 0.05 GeV, M(1) ≃ 3.2 ± 0.2 GeV, M(2) ≃ 2.95 ± 0.15 G...

This paper presents an automatic FDP (Facial Definition Parameters) and FAP (Facial Animation Parameters) generation method from an image sequence that captures a frontal face. The proposed method is based on facial feature tracking without markers on a face. We present an efficient method to extract 2D facial features and to generate the FDP by applying 2D features to a generic face model. We ...

A secret sharing scheme permits a secret to be shared among participants in such a way that only qualiied subsets of participants can recover the secret. If any non qualiied subset has absolutely no information about the secret, then the scheme is called perfect. Unfortunately, in this case the size of the shares cannot be less than the size of the secret. Krawczyk 9] showed how to improve this...

AIM To evaluate pre-treatment serum C-reactive protein (CRP) level as a prognostic parameter in patients with adenocarcinoma of the uterine cervix. MATERIALS AND METHODS Pre-treatment CRP levels were analyzed to determine potential associations with clinicopathological parameters and to assess prognostic value in 46 patients with sole adenocarcinoma of the uterine cervix. RESULTS The mean (...

A 23-year-old man was seen in the clinic because of progressive weakness and paresthesias. He had been well until six months earlier, when he began to have difficulty climbing a flight of stairs quickly and noted intermittent tingling of the soles of his feet and toes. Two months later, he had increasing weakness in his legs, pain in the lower back, stiffness of the hands, and intermittent numb...

A one-year-old girl (resident of Bhatinda, Punjab) was first admitted at PGIMER under pediatric hematology-oncology at the advanced pediatric center on 05.10.2011 with complaints of fever and progressive abdominal distension for 1 and a half months. Fever was intermittent, associated with occasional vomiting and documented up to101°F. Vomiting was nonbilious and nonprojectile. She also had prog...

INTRODUCTION Clinicopathological correlation studies of cases admitted as meningococcal disease are scarce, although they can serve to elucidate clinically obscure cases. METHODS A descriptive approach was used to analyze 42 necropsies following clinical diagnosis of meningococcal disease, verifying the agreement between histopathological and clinical findings evaluated according to three cli...

BACKGROUND Neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) is an indicator of the inflammatory state, and its increase has been shown to be a negative prognostic factor for many malignancies. The aim of this study was to determine whether there was a relationship between NLR and tumor aggressiveness in gastric cancer patients and to investigate the prognostic significance of NLR. MATERIAL AND METHODS The med...

OBJECTIVE To classify all renal biopsies of lupus nephritis patients presenting in the last 10 years, according to the modified World Health Organization (WHO) classification using the facilities of light, fluorescent, and electron microscopy. To assess the activity and chronicity indices of renal biopsies according to the National Institute of Health protocol, and to correlate the histological...

Since the original description of glial neoplasms consisting of cells with oligodendroglial morphology [1] many papers have addressed the clinical behavior of this tumor. While their name was derived from a characteristic appearance in silver stains as tumors composed of glial cells with few and short processes, the hallmark of oligodendrogliomas as shown in hematoxylin and eosin stains became ...