INTRODUCTION When diagnosing Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia (PJP), the clinical suspicion must be confirmed by laboratory tests. PJP is rarely described in patients with idiopathic CD4+ lymphocytopenia (ICL), a rare T-cell deficiency of unknown origin with persistently low levels of CD4+ T-cells (<300 µl-1 or <20 % of total lymphocytes) but repeated negative human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)...

Purpose: To evaluate correlations between preoperative sizing of Implantable Collamer Lens (ICL) by white-towhite and sulcus-to-sulcus techniques, and postoperative vault size measured by Sheimpflug imaging. Setting: Persian Eye Clinic, a private eye clinic located in Isfahan city, Iran Design: Prospective, nonrandomized clinical trial Methods: This prospective clinical trial included 63 eyes o...

We analyse the spatial distribution and colour of the intracluster light (ICL) in 683 clusters of galaxies between z = 0.2 and 0.3, selected from ∼ 1500 deg of the first data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-DR1). Surface photometry in the g, r and i bands is conducted on stacked images of the clusters, after rescaling them to the same metric size and masking out resolved sources. ...

The retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) regulates the ionic composition of the fluid surrounding the photoreceptors by transport mechanisms that utilize Cl- channels. Cl- currents in RPE cells, however, remain incompletely characterized. The purpose of this study was to identify the Cl- currents in acutely isolated Xenopus RPE cells using whole-cell patch clamp. We describe three different Cl- cur...

Calcium (Ca(2+))-activated chloride (Cl(-)) channels (CaCCs) play a role in the modulation of action potentials and synaptic responses in the somatodendritic regions of central neurons. In the vertebrate retina, large Ca(2+)-activated Cl(-) currents (ICl(Ca)) regulate synaptic transmission at photoreceptor terminals; however, the molecular identity of CaCCs that mediate ICl(Ca) remains unclear....

2 Background in toric geometry 8 2.1 Basic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 2.2 Toric varieties associated with a reflexive polyhedron . . . . . . . 10 2.3 Subtoric varieties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 2.4 Singularities of a simplicial toric variety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 2.5 Toric action of a torus on a toric variety . ...

The independent choice logic (ICL) is part of a project to combine logic and decision/game theory into a coherent framework. The ICL has a simple possible-worlds semantics characterised by independent choices and an ac yclic logic program that specifies the consequences of these choices. This paper gives an abductive characterization of the ICL. The ICL is defined model-theoretically, but we sh...