BACKGROUND Botulinum toxin A (BTX) is the currently preferred symptomatic treatment for primary hemifacial spasm (HFS), but its long-term efficacy and safety are not known. OBJECTIVE To assess the long-term effectiveness and safety of BTX in the treatment of primary HFS. DESIGN Retrospective review of medical records of the 1st and 10th years of treatment. SETTING Outpatient clinics of 4 ...

INTRODUCTION Several studies suggested an association between first trimester biochemical markers (PAPP-A and ß-HCG) and infants below 10th percentile. Our goal was to describe this relationship of biochemical markers with small-for-gestational-age fetuses in our population. MATERIAL AND METHODS Retrospective analytic study of 2 035 pregnant women that underwent first-trimester screening in t...

In this paper challenges observed in 65nm technology for circuits utilizing subthreshold region operation are presented. Different circuits are analyzed and simulated for ultra low supply voltages to find the best topology for subthreshold operation. To support the theoretical discussions different topologies are analyzed and simulated. Various aspects of flip-flop circuits are described in det...

Predicting protein submitochondrial location has been studied for about ten years. A number of methods have been developed. The prediction performances have been improved to an almost perfect level. In this review, we introduce the background of this research topic. We also compare the methods, the performances and the datasets that have been used by these studies. Towards the end, we provide h...

In this paper, we propose a novel statistical decap allocation method to reduce the voltage drop noise in the presence of variational leakage current sources. The new method can derive the closed form of decoupling capacitance (decaps) in terms of variational parameters from the variational leakage currents. It treats the deterministic decap method as a black box and can work with any existing ...

The Canadian Society of Allergy & Clinical Immunology, founded in 1945, published its first Journal in 1996, as the Canadian Journal of Allergy & Clinical Immunology, under the Editorship of Dr Gordon Sussman. It was a hard copy journal containing mostly solicited manuscripts and its circulation was limited primarily to Society members. In 2004, Allergy, Asthma & Clinical Immunology (AACI) was ...