The HyperRed-Black trees are a relaxed version of RedBlack trees accepting high degree of concurrency. In the Red-Black trees consecutive red nodes are forbidden. This restriction has been withdrawn in the Chromatic trees. They have been introduced by O. Nurmi and E. Soisalon-Soininen to work in a concurrent environment. A Chromatic tree can have big clusters of red nodes surrounded by black no...

Bribes paid by firms in Indonesia arise principally from red tape, in particular licenses, imposed by local government officials. Red tape generates direct revenues (fees) plus indirect revenues in the form of bribes. The expected value of the latter is capitalized into lower salaries needed by localities to compensate public officials. Localities in Indonesia are hampered by insufficient reven...

Background: The development of anti-red blood cell alloantibodies remains a major problem in transfusion of blood in thalassemia major patients. Also, Autoantibodies can result in clinical hemolysis and difficulty in cross-matching blood. We studied the frequency of red blood cell alloimmunization and autoimmunization among thalassemia patients who received regular transfusions in Ilam province...

Passive haemagglutination inhibition (PHI) was adapted to quantitate red cell associated IgG. Twenty one patients with autoimmune haemolytic anaemia (AIHA) had a raised red cell associated IgG, mean (SD) = 5.783 (6.183) ng/10(6) red blood cell compared with that of 69 subjects with a red cell associated IgG of 0.433 (0.349) ng/10(6) red blood cell. Thirteen of 14 blood donors with a positive di...

Optical Characterization of ZnO Nanorods Grown by the Ultra-Fast and Low Temperature Hydrothermal Process B.S. Witkowskia,∗, V.Y. Ivanov, Ł. Wachnicki, S. Gierałtowska and M. Godlewski Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Aleja Lotnikow 32/46, PL–02668 Warsaw, Poland Dept. of Mathematics and Natural Sciences College of Science, Cardinal S. Wyszyński University, Dewajtis 5, 01-815 W...

We compared the dried MicroScan microdilution panel, Synergy Quad plate agar dilution, and high-potency disk diffusion screening methods for the detection of high-level aminoglycoside resistance in 815 enterococcal bloodstream isolates. Agreement between the three methods was 99% when testing for high-level gentamicin resistance and 96% when testing for high-level streptomycin resistance.

Many of the Annonaceous acetogenins, particularly those containing a bisTHF moiety, exhibit outstanding cytotoxicity and pesticidal activity. Their remarkable structural diversity suggests that a complete chemical library of these compounds should be prepared and systematically screened. We show here several approaches to meet this synthetic challenge using the naked carbon skeleton strategy as...

In this study growth characteristics of 815 tuwini (Capoeta trutta) in Shour River were investigated during July 2010 through June 2011. The population was composed of 62.94% females and 32.02% males. Sex ratio was 1: 1.96, with significant differences observed at 1:1 (x2= 150.6 df= 1 p < 0.05). The age distribution of this population ranged from