The occurrence of Down's syndrome in both dizygotic twins appears to be very rare. A case of twins of unlike sex is reported, in which chromosomal analysis showed trisomy 21 in both of them, while the parental karyotypes were normal. This is the third reported case of such a constellation, and the second one in which infant and parental chromosomal analysis was done.

Let k be an integer with id="M2"> 4 ≤ 6 and id="M3"> η any real number. Suppose that id="M4"> λ 1 , 2 … 5 are nonzero numbers, not all of them have the same sign, id="M5"> / is irrational. It p...

In this paper, we describe a method to manipulate a paintbrush for a painting robot. The robot has multi-fingered hands and a stereo vision system. It grasps a paintbrush with its own hand and paints a picture on a canvas. Because a brush is deformable, adequate control of a paintbrush is a challenging task. It is necessary to develop several manipulation methods with feedback control using bot...

This paper describes symptoms and findings in a 57-year-old painter who had been exposed to various organic solvents for over 30 years. He began to work as a painter at 16 years of age, frequently working in poorly ventilated areas; he used solvents to remove paint from the skin of his arms and hands at the end of each work shift. The patient and his family noticed impaired short-term memory fu...