Measurement of serum or plasma and brain cholinesterase (ChE) activities in wild birds is used to diagnose and monitor their exposure to organophosphate and carbamate insecticides (Marden et al., 1994; Burn & Leighton, 1996; Iko et al., 2002; Osten et al., 2005). Reduced enzyme activity is an indicator of exposure and adverse effects of anti ChE insecticides even in the absence of overt signs o...

Sommario I recenti avanzamenti nella potenza di calcolo e nelle telecomunicazioni hanno creato le giuste condizioni per la diffusione globale di enormi moli di informazioni elettroniche e di nuovi strumenti per l’analisi del loro contenuto, sollevando problemi di information overload e, in particolare, di duplicate detection. I duplicati, cioè documenti molto simili che contengono approssimativ...

English. The paper describes our submissions to the task on PoS tagging for Italian Social Media Texts (PoSTWITA) at Evalita 2016. We compared two approaches: a traditional HMM trigram Pos tagger and a Deep Learning PoS tagger using both character-level and word-level embeddings. The character-level embeddings performed better proving that they can provide a finer representation of words that a...

Current oxime therapies do not readily cross the blood-brain barrier to reactivate organophosphorus nerve agent-inhibited cholinesterase (ChE) within the CNS. We investigated the ability of monoisonitrosoacetone (MINA), a tertiary oxime, to reactivate ChE inhibited by the nerve agent sarin (GB), cyclosarin (GF), or VX, in peripheral tissues and brain of guinea pigs and determined whether reacti...

Myotomal muscle cells, derived from Xenopus embryos and grown in culture without nerve, develop discrete sites of cholinesterase (ChE) activity on their surface. The spatial relationship of these ChE patches to surface patches of acetylcholine receptors (AChRs) has been examined in the present study by a combination of ChE histochemistry and fluorescent staining of the receptors. ChE patches an...

When salivary glands of the tsetse fly, Glossina morsitans morsitans, are stained for cholinesterase (ChE) activity, a net-like pattern of reaction product is observed surrounding each epithelial cell of the gland's secretory region. Glands infected with Trypanosoma brucei brucei show a progressive reduction in this ChE activity as the parasites develop. When the infection is mature, ChE is rar...

Aprotinin concentrations such as occur in vivo after intravenous injection of 100,000 KIU, inhibit ChE activity by about 5-16 per cent. The degree of inhibition is greatest between 6 and 20 minutes post-injection and is negligible after 30 minutes. When the ChE baseline activity is normal, 5-16 per cent inhibition does not lead to a prolongation of the action of suxamethonium. A prolongation of...

Sunto. Si prova che il Γ-limite in Lμ di una successione di funzionali supremali della forma Fk(u) = μ-ess supΩ fk(x, u) é un funzionale supremale. In un controesempio si mostra che la funzione che rappresenta il Γ-limite F (·, B) di una successione di funzionali supremali della forma Fk(u,B) = μ-ess supB fk(x, u) puó dipendere dall’insieme B e si stabilisce una condizione necessaria e sufficie...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES India contributes a significant number of deaths attributed to coronary artery disease (CAD) compared to the rest of the world. Data on catastrophic health expenditure (CHE) related to acute coronary syndrome (ACS), the major cause of deaths in CAD, are limited in the literature. We estimated the magnitude of CHE and studied the strategies used to cope with CHE. METHOD...

Hepatic encephalopathy (HE) is a major complication of liver disease that leads to significant morbidity and mortality. Caring for hospitalized patients with HE is becoming more complex, and the economic burden of HE continues to rise. Defining and diagnosing HE, particularly covert HE (CHE), remain challenging. In this article, we review new tools and those currently under development for the ...