PURPOSE In order to define specific features on screening sinus CT (SSCT) that will aid the endoscopic surgeon in his approach to patients with inflammatory sinonasal disease, we sought to answer four questions: 1) what recurring patterns of inflammatory sinonasal disease are evident on SSCT; 2) what is the relative frequency of these recurring patterns; 3) how do these CT patterns correlate wi...

El objetivo del presente estudio fue determinar la seroprevalencia parásito Toxoplasma gondii en cabras departamento de Piura, Perú. Se evaluaron 362 muestras suero haciendo uso un kit comercial ELISA indirecto, cual revela presencia anticuerpos IgG anti-T. gondii. La real hallada 26.29% (IC 95%: 21.74 - 30.84%). Los intervalos confianza 95%) evidenciaron diferencia significativa las seropositi...

Hans-Henning Kortüm: Kriege und Krieger 500–1500. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer 2010. 290 S. Ill., graph. Darst. ISBN 978-3-17-021416-3 Kart. € 27,–

In 1993, Mark Chase and 41 coauthors published phylogenetic analyses of two very large data sets of nucleotide sequences of the chloroplast gene rbcL, which encodes the large subunit of ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase. Their paper was important for several reasons. These analyses were (and still are) among the largest ever attempted using parsimony. The assembly of such a large number of ...

Spin-polarized gaseous Bose-Einstein condensates were confined by a combination of gravitational and magnetic forces. The partially condensed atomic vapors were adiabatically decompressed by weakening the gravito-magnetic trap to a mean frequency of 1hertz, then evaporatively reduced in size to 2500 atoms. This lowered the peak condensate density to 5 x 10(10) atoms per cubic centimeter and coo...

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The ABL 500 blood gas analyser from Radiometer has cordless electrodes and does not use a humidifier for calibrating gases. During the evaluation of the analytical performance of this instrument, the problem of p0(2) accuracy was approached by comparing the values obtained with two kinds of tonometry (film and bubble). An acceptable level of imprecision was demonstrated for all measured paramet...

Neutrons constitute a major component in the radiation fi eld outside the shielding of particle accelerators. Consequently appropriate neutron dose meters are needed to survey the radiation levels. A thermo-luminescence based neutron dosemeter is used at the UNILAC as well as at the SIS. It has been modifi ed to improve the response for high energetic neutrons (extended range). We report on a t...