In the early part of the rainy season in 1988, an outbreak of beriberi occurred in free-living adults in a relatively small area in the North Bank region of The Gambia. In 1995 we selected two compounds in a village called Chilla situated within the affected district to retrospectively examine dietary factors potentially contributing to the outbreak. There had previously been cases of beriberi ...

INTRODUCTION The diabetes hospitalization rate for the region along the U.S. side of the U.S.-Mexico border is unknown, a situation that could limit the success of the Healthy Border 2010 program. To remedy this problem, we analyzed and compared hospital discharge data for Arizona, California, and Texas for the year 2000 and calculated the diabetes hospitalization rates. METHODS We obtained h...

Dogs with compensated biventricular hypertrophy due to chronic atrioventricular block (cAVB), are more susceptible to develop drug-induced Torsade-de-Pointes arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death. It has been suggested that the increased Na(+) influx in hypertrophied cAVB ventricular myocytes contribute to these lethal arrhythmias. The increased Na(+) influx was not mediated by Na(+) channels, i...

Freshwater quality and quantity are some of the fundamental requirements for sustaining human life civilization. The Water Quality Index is most extensively used parameter determining water worldwide. However, traditional approach calculation WQI often complex time consuming since it requires handling large data sets involves several subindices. We investigated performance artificial intelligen...

Cyber-attacks pose a grave threat to corporations and disrupt their normal functioning. The number of cyber attacks has been ever increasing and due to the loss of priceless information on account of these attacks there is an urgent necessity to check their prevalence. In this regard, the role of a security analyst, a human decision maker whose task is to accurately and timely detect cyber atta...

Let W be a Coxeter group acting as a matrix group by way of the dual of the geometric representation. Let L be the lattice of intersections of all reflecting hyperplanes associated with the reflections in this representation. We show that L is isomorphic to the lattice consisting of all parabolic subgroups of W . We use this correspondence to find all W for which L is supersolvable. In particul...

OBJECTIVE This study aimed to investigate the effect of SagaPro, a product derived from Angelica archangelica leaf, on nocturia. MATERIAL AND METHODS Sixty-nine male patients 45 years or older with at least two nocturnal voids were randomized to receive SagaPro or placebo in a double-blind design for 8 weeks. Voiding diaries were assessed before and after the treatment. RESULTS The results ...

Bifurcation problems in which periodic boundary conditions (PBC) or Neumann boundary conditions (NBC) are imposed often involve partial differential equations that have Eu-clidean symmetry. In this case posing the bifurcation problem with either PBC or NBC on a finite domain can lead to a symmetric bifurcation problem for which the manifest symmetries of the domain do not completely characteriz...