BACKGROUND Scorpion sting is a major health problem in Iran. The aim of current study was to measure the incidence rates of scorpion stings, mortality, recovery, and affected age groups. The results of treatment with and without anti venom also were considered in the entire country during 2009. METHODS All the data were collected from emergency section of different hospitals and then were ana...

Gaia Scavia, Stefano Morabito, Rosangela Tozzoli, Valeria Michelacci, Maria Luisa Marziano, Fabio Minelli, Clarissa Ferreri, Fabio Paglialonga, Alberto Edefonti, and Alfredo Caprioli Author affi liations: Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy (G. Scavia, S. Morabito, R. Tozzoli, V. Michelacci, M.L. Marziano, F. Minelli, C. Ferreri, A. Caprioli); and Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Ita...

We analyzed changes in immunologic values over time for 28 hospitalized patients with pandemic (H1N1) 2009. Levels of interleukin-6, interferon-y, and interleukin-10 increased 1 day after illness onset and then decreased to baseline levels. Levels of virus-specific antibody were undetectable 1 day after illness onset and peaked 36 days later.

A total of 1752 strains of osrnophilic yeasts were isolated from honey and po]]ens. Fody-three strains Gf esmophilic yeasts produced po]yols, among whieh 6 strains produced erythritol in good yields. On the other hand, 52 osmophilic yeasts converted sucrose te fin]etooligosaccharides, among which 8 strains produced both extra and intracel]ular P-fructofuranosidase, which conyerted sucrose to fr...

Many species of tachinid flies are viewed as generalist parasitoids because what is apparently a single species of fly has been reared from many species of caterpillars. However, an ongoing inventory of the tachinid flies parasitizing thousands of species of caterpillars in Area de Conservación Guanacaste, northwestern Costa Rica, has encountered >400 species of specialist tachinids with only a...

Naturally, deformed rocks commonly contain crack arrays (joints) forming patterns with systematic relationships to the large-scale deformation. Kinematically, joints can be mode-1, -2 or -3 or combinations of these, but there is no overarching theory for the development of the patterns. We develop a model motivated by dislocation pattern formation in metals. The problem is formulated in one dim...

We extend the mechanism for noise-induced phase transitions proposed by Ibañes et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 020601 (2001)] to pattern formation phenomena. In contrast with known mechanisms for pure noise-induced pattern formation, this mechanism is not driven by a short-time instability amplified by collective effects. The phenomenon is analyzed by means of a modulated mean field approximation ...

We analyze pattern formation in doubly resonant intracavity second-harmonic generation in the presence of competing nondegenerate parametric downconversion. We show that for positive cavity detuning of the fundamental frequency the threshold for parametric oscillation is lower than that of transverse, pattern forming instabilities. The parametric oscillation strongly modifies the pattern dynami...