CONTEXT Information on childhood poisoning in the developing world, including South Africa, is scarce, despite its contribution to morbidity and mortality. OBJECTIVE We describe the profile of children with exposures and poisonings presenting to Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital (RCWMCH) in Cape Town, South Africa, from 2003 to 2008 and compare the trends of causative agents over the...

BACKGROUND The present study aimed to determine the rate and cause of the mortality of the Iranian ex-prisoners of war in Iraqi detention camps during a ten- year period (1980 - 1990) according to the documented reports. METHODS The information extracted from the documented death certifications that have been provided by the Iraqi authorities and the Red Cross delegation. RESULTS At least a...

It is next to impossible to develop real-life applications in just pure Prolog. With XPCE [5] we realised a mechanism for integrating Prolog with an external object-oriented system that turns this OO system into a natural extension to Prolog. We describe the design and how it can be applied to other external OO systems.

The concentration of alkaloidal constituents of Fumaria indica at different stages of its life span were estimated. The total alkaloid content was found maximum between 21 - 40 days whereas a mark able variations in the concentrations of pure individual alkaloids at different stages were observed.

aDepartment of Chemistry, Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennoudai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8571, Japan, bGraduate School of Life Science, University of Hyogo, Kouto, Hyogo 678-1297, Japan, cInstitute for Materials Chemistry and Engineering, Kyushu University, Motooka, Nishi-Ku, Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan d Elements Strategy Initiative for Catalysts & Batteries, Ky...

DNA-based methods continue to unveil the diversity and evolutionary origins of life on Earth. 'Next generation' methods have just solved a long-standing puzzle by uncovering previously unseen yet globally distributed diversity within a lineage of amitochondriate parasites affecting commercially exploited aquatic hosts. This discovery will impact both pure and applied research fields.

Pure cultures of Bacillus cereus, Pseudomonas fluorescens, and Achromobacter sp. were shown to transform five pyrethroid insecticides in the presence of Tween 80. One of the major products, 3-phenoxybenzoic acid, was further transformed to 4-hydroxy-3-phenoxybenzoic acid. Permethrin was the most rapidly transformed of the pyrethroids, with a half-life of less than 5 days.

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The mechanism of hologram formation in fixation-free rehalogenating bleaching processes have been treated by different authors. The experiments carried out on Agfa 8E75 HD plates led to the conclusion that material transfer from the exposed to the unexposed zones is the main mechanism under theprocess. We present a simple model that explains the mechanism of hologram formation inside the emulsi...