In the U.S., healthcare-associated infections lengthen the average hospital stay by up to 19 days and increase costs by approximately $43,000 per hospitalization [1]. The prevalence of blood contamination of hospital glucose meters has been reported to be 30.2±17.5%; an increase in the number of operators increases the odds of contamination [2]. Blood glucose monitoring devices have been associ...

Performance and storage of reagent strips for measuring blood glucose Use of reagent strips to monitor blood glucose concentrations in diabetic patients, with or without a glucose meter, is gaining in popularity. Favourable performance of the recently introduced Boehringer BM Test Glycemie 20-800 strips has been reported.'-4 We compared Boehringer strips and Dextrostix (Ames) with laboratory me...

The following manuscript has been retracted from our November – December, 2016 issue. It has been retracted on a request from the authors as they forgot to properly acknowledge the source of their data. The authors are grateful to those who pointed out this mistake. Editor Retraction in: Pak J Med Sci 2016;32(6):1500-1505. doi: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.326.11460 Link: http://pjms.com.pk/in...

Kronecker coefficients encode the tensor products of complex irreducible representations of symmetric groups. Their stability properties have been considered recently by several authors (Vallejo, Pak and Panova, Stembridge). In [3] we described a geometric method, based on Schur-Weyl duality, that allows to produce huge series of instances of this phenomenon. In this note we show how to go beyo...

Context of our work. Describing typical properties of permutations in a given class is a question that has received quite a lot of attention in the last few years. Most of the attention is focused on permutation classes Av(τ) for τ of size 3. See for instance the very precise description of the asymptotic shape of permutations in these classes by Miner and Pak [12], or the link between large ra...

Haemodynamic auscultatory, phonocardiographic, and haemodynamic radiological correlations were studied in 5I patients with proven atrial septal defect. A good correlation exists between the degree of left-to-right shunt and auscultatory and phonocardiographic parameters, especially for a tricuspid rumble, tricuspid opening snap, and delay of the tricuspid component of the first heart sound. A p...

Pak-Wing Fok,1 Rodolfo R. Rosales,2 and Dionisios Margetis3 1Applied and Computational Mathematics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA 2Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA 3Department of Mathematics and Institute for Physical Science and Technology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 2...