We report on aetiological factors, clinical findings and prognosis of 87 patients with erythromelalgia (EM). This is the largest material reported in the western literature. There is a 100% follow up of patients with observation period up to 11 years. There were 61 females and 26 males. About two-thirds of the patients were primary cases and around three-quarters had a chronic condition. The co...

English): The identification of a murderer and the eventual conviction was largely due to forensic dentistry and in particular the use of bite marks on the victim compared with casts of the teeth of the accused. The Bundy case has become notorious in American legal circles. MeSH: Bites, Human -history (major); Forensic Dentistry -history; History, 20th Century; Homicide -history (major); Humans...

The X-ray data obtained with XMM-Newton is used to investigate the complex structure of the gas in the atmosphere of the Virgo cluster around M87. We construct a simple model for the temperature and density distribution. This model implies that the cumulative mass of the cluster gas is a power-law of its entropy index, kT n−2/3, similar to the Hydra cluster. This supports the idea that such pow...

Based on a detailed study of the temperature structure of the intracluster medium in the halo of M 87, abundance profiles of 7 elements, O, Mg, Si, S, Ar, Ca, and Fe are derived. In addition, abundance ratios are derived from the ratios of line strengths, whose temperature dependences are small within the temperature range of the ICM of M 87. The abundances of Si, S, Ar, Ca and Fe show strong d...

History has had its periods of magnificent excess, when vast amounts of human effort were devoted to cultural projects that transcended the necessities of survival and commerce. Obvious examples begin with the construction of the great pyramids. Much later, Europe's cathedrals were the ultimate commitment of society's surplus energy to expressions of the spirit. The explorations of the remote r...

THE majority of aniimal fats examined in detail have been from vertebrates. In connexion with the feeding experiments described in the preceding paper, a knowledge of the composition of the mixed fatty acids of earthworms was desirable and a large quantity of worms was collected over a considerable period and kept in cold storage until sufficient was available for fatty acid analyses. In view o...

Microorganisms synthesise a wide range of surface-active compounds (SAC), generally called biosurfactants. These compounds are mainly classified according to their molecular weight, physico-chemical properties and mode of action. The low-molecular-weight SACs or biosurfactants reduce the surface tension at the air/water interfaces and the interfacial tension at oil/water interfaces, whereas the...

This article updates the private social welfare expenditures series with complete data for 1985 and information for most categories through 1986. In the United States, private sector expenditures play a substantial role in the provision of social welfare services. This article presents private social welfare expenditures in terms of the four major categories--health, education, welfare and rela...