BACKGROUND Globally, the reduction of stillbirths is a high priority, especially in view of the targets set by the Millennium Development Goals. It is crucial that health policy-makers and programme managers are aware of the epidemiology of stillbirths. OBJECTIVES This was a case-control study conducted in Kassala hospital in Eastern Sudan to investigate the prevalence and risk factors for st...

The ERBB3 promoter region is GC rich (65%) and, like EGFR, does not contain a TATA box. A proximal promoter was observed within 600 bp flanking Exon1. AP2-1 (OB2-1) and Fox3a have been demonstrated to be functional transcriptional regulators at upstream start sites (Skinner and Hurst, 1993). A Sox10 regulated enhancer has been identified at chr12:5476306554763421 in neural crest derived cells. ...

Barnyardgrass (Echinochloa crus-galli) is one of the most troublesome herbicide-resistant weeds worldwide that interferes with rice growth and rice yield. Here we provide the data from a comparative proteomic analysis of leaves in resistant (R) and susceptible (S) biotypes of Echinochloa crus-galli both with and without multi-herbicide treatment in two independent biological experiments using i...

Based on enhanced upconversion, we demonstrate a highly efficient method for converting a full image from one part of the electromagnetic spectrum into a new desired wavelength region. By illuminating a metal transmission mask with a 765 nm Gaussian beam to create an image and subsequently focusing the image inside a nonlinear PPKTP crystal located in the high intra-cavity field of a 1342 nm so...

JOURNAL OF PACIFIC RIM PSYCHOLOGY Volume 4, Issue 1 pp. 53–60 Address for correspondence: Alicia Copping, School of Psychology, Locked Bag 1342, UTAS, Newnham TAS 7250, Australia. E-mail: [email protected] A 16 year old girl is walking home from school. Suddenly she is attacked by a group of four older men. The men drag her into a nearby house where she is systematically raped and assaulted....

EPITHELIUM-FIBRE CELL COUPLING IN THE EYE LENS PRESCOTT, A.R., DAHM. R.. HUTCHESON, A.M., QUIN!-AN. R.A., VANMARLE. J.‘, & VRENSEN. G§. Department of Biochemistry, University of Dundee, Medical Sciences Institute, Dundee, DDl 4HN. Scotland. * Department of Electron Microscopy, Faculty of Medicine, University of Amsterdam, Meibergdreef 15, 1105 AZ Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 5 Department of Morp...

We consider the problem of proving circuit lower bounds against the polynomialtime hierarchy. We give both positive and negative results. For the positive side, for any fixed integer k > 0, we give an explicit Σp2 language, acceptable by a Σ p 2-machine with running time O(nk 2+k), that requires circuit size > nk. This provides a constructive version of an existence theorem of Kannan [Kan82]. O...

In this paper we present a new lattice construction for a lattice based partial key exposure attack for the RSA cryptography. We consider the situation that the RSA secret key d is small and a sufficient amount of the LSBs (least significant bits) of d are known by the attacker. We show that our lattice construction is theoretically more efficient than known attacks proposed in [2, 7]. This is ...

Given a polynomial optimization problem (POP), any affine transformation on its variable vector induces an equivalent POP. Applying Lasserre's SDP relaxation to the original and the transformed POPs, we have two SDPs. This paper shows that these two SDPs are isomorphic to each other under a nonsingular linear transformation, which maps the feasible region of one SDP onto that of the other isomo...