Palm creases are helpful in revealing anthropologic characteristics and diagnosing chromosomal aberrations, and have been analyzed qualitatively and quantitatively. However, previous methods of analyzing palm creases were not objective so that reproducibility could not be guaranteed. In this study, a more objective morphologic analysis of palm creases was developed. The features of the improved...

Becton Dickinson Phoenix Yeast ID Panel was compared to the Remel RapID Yeast Plus System using 150 recent clinical yeast isolates and the API 20C AUX system to resolve discrepant results. The concordance rate between the Yeast ID Panel and the RapID Yeast Plus System (without arbitration) was 93.3% with 97.3% (146/150) and 95.3% (143/150) of the isolates correctly identified by the Becton Dick...

I Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Mayo Clinic Hospital, Mayo Clinic Arizona Phoenix, Arizona, USA. II Department of Critical Care Medicine, Mayo Clinic Hospital, Mayo Clinic Arizona Phoenix, Arizona, USA. III Department of Philosophy, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA. IV Department of Anesthesiology, Mayo Clinic Jacksonville, Florida, USA. [email protected] ...

www.sciencemag.org SCIENCE VOL 325 3 JULY 2009 5 COVER The Phoenix spacecraft on the martian polar plains (68°N latitude). The footpad at the bottom is about 1 meter below the spacecraft deck seen at the lower left. Overlaid images are trenches dug to either nearly pure water ice or ice-cemented soil. Analyses of samples taken from these trenches give clues to the history of the region. Results...

This paper is intended to analyze the interrelation, mutual influence and integration of phoenix tree, empress in ecological cultural terms. The study indicates historical-cultural symbolical meaning Empress Wu value. incarnation dragon, rebirth Maitreya Buddha with godship. From aspect theology, stays at tree that a myth by means tree; dragon keep abreast, represents outstanding woman, (super ...