To the Editor, The Indian Medical Gazette. Sir,?Of the pentavalent antimony compounds that are in common use in the treatment of kala-azar the preparation known as urea-stibamine is probably the one that has been used most extensively. At the Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine we have tried out a large number of. antimony compounds and have selected a number of these as being of special value...

Many people have kindly helped us prepare and organize the HWISE workshop. First of all, we would like to thank the AINA 2006 organization committee for their support, guidance, and help for making the workshop. We would like to greatly thank Dr. Hui-Huang Hsu, Dr. Laurence T. Yang, and Dr. Muhammad Younas. They kindly helped us to organize this workshop as AINA 2006 Workshop Co-chairs. We woul...

Putting together a workshop requires the time and effort of many people. First, we would like to thank all the authors for their hard work in preparing submissions to the workshop. We deeply appreciate the effort and contributions of the program committee members who worked very hard to send back their comments and to put together an exciting program. Especially, we thank the effort of those pr...

We congratulate Yu et al. for their successful results where they evaluated the pattern distribution and the changes of strabismus surgery in pediatric population [1]. The authors observed that surgery for childhood exotropia was more common than surgery for esotropia in China and they stated that strabismus type and onset age were found to be associated with binocular function for subjects wit...

objective: many behavioral problems are resulting from inappropriate parenting styles and inattention to behavioral-emotional difficulties in childhood. the purpose of this research was to examine the relationship between parenting styles and dimensions of children's maladaptive behaviors. methods: 120 six-year old boys, who were enrolled in the first grade of elementary school, were selec...

Sclove and Professor Jan Verschelde, for kindly agreeing to be on my committee despite their busy schedules. I would like to thank Kari Dueball and Darlette Willis for their assistance during my stay at UIC, the UIC mathematics department and the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA) for their generous support and fellowship, Ali Shaker and Marcus Bishop for kindly helping me with...

a working document by global witness. 10 may 2000 This working report has been produced by Global Witness. Partial funding for this report was kindly received from the UN department of the UK Foreign and Commenwealth Office (FCO), without which this report would not have been possible. The views expressed within are solely those of Global Witness. There are many individuals, companies and count...

Fact-checking as a specific genre has become more important than ever over the past two decades to counter misinformation. However, we know from previous research that people rarely actively search for fact-checks. This study therefore argues importance of fact-checks so-called direct content interventions on social media. More specifically, this article discusses findings about an innovative w...

This article, dedicated with admiration in memory of Jon and Peter Borwein,illustrates by example, the power experimental mathematics, so dear to them both, experimenting so-called Apéry limits WZ pairs. In particular we prove a weaker form an intriguing conjecture Marc Chamberland Armin Straub (in article Borwein), generate lots new limits. We also rediscovered infinite family cubic irrational...