OBJECTIVES Testicular germ-cell cancer (TGCC) patients are at risk of developing hypogonadism but no risk factors have yet been defined. METHODS Blood was collected from 143 TGCC patients (after orchidectomy, prior to further therapy (T0) and 6, 12, 24, 36 and 60 months (T6, T12, T24, T36 and T60) after therapy). Biological hypogonadism (BH) was defined as: serum testosterone below 10 nmol/l ...

BACKGROUND & AIMS A fiber-rich diet has a cardioprotective effect, but the mechanism for this remains unclear. We hypothesized that a fiber-rich diet with brown rice improves endothelial function in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus. METHODS Twenty-eight patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus at a single general hospital in Japan were randomly assigned to a brown rice (n = 14) or white r...

Longfin sanddab (Citharichthys xanthostigma) represents a very important fishery resource in Southern and Baja California but are not very well known. The purpose of this study is to provide information on the growth and mortality of longfin sanddab population in the Mexican Pacific Ocean at Baja California, México. Data on growth were obtained for longfin sanddab collected with otter trawls du...

Background Rituximab (RTX) induces rapid, usually complete and prolonged depletion of circulating B cells, also hypogammaglobulinemia in some patients. There are limited data regarding the risk severe infection events (SIE) when initiating or continuing rituximab patients with acquired hypogammaglobulinemia, especially suffering from autoimmune diseases (ADs) other than rheumatoid arthritis (RA...

We consider poset models of topological spaces and show that every T1-space has an bounded complete algebraic poset model, thus give a positive answer to a question asked in a recent paper by Waszkiewicz. It is also proved that every T1-space is homeomorphic to the maximal point space of a d-space. In the classic general topology, people are mainly interested in the spaces which satisfy at leas...

We calculate the magnetic moment (‘persistent current’) in a strongly correlated electron system — a Wigner crystal — in a one-dimensional ballistic ring. The flux and temperature dependence of the persistent current in a perfect ring is shown to be essentially the same as for a system of non-interacting electrons. In contrast, by incorporating into the ring geometry a tunnel barrier that pins ...

There are many axioms on the principal topological spaces. Two of the interesting axioms are the T0 and hyperconnected topological spaces. There is a well-known and straightforward correspondence (cf. [2]) between the topologies on finite set Xn of n points and reflexive transitive relations (preorders) on those sets. This paper generalizes this result, characterizes the principal hyperconnecte...

Fishery stock assessment requires accurate specification of the growth function target species, and aging uncertainty is an important factor that affects estimation parameters. In this study, we used simulations to study effects two types uncertainty, error sampled age range, on parameter Von Bertalanffy function, including asymptotic length (L∞), coefficient (k), theoretical in year at zero (t...

In the paper we consider two positive contractions T, S : L(A, τ ) −→ L(A, τ ) such that T ≤ S, here (A, τ ) is a semi-finite JBW -algebra. If there is an n0 ∈ N such that ‖S n0 − T0‖ < 1. Then we prove that ‖S − T‖ < 1 holds for every n ≥ n0.