Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works. 2055 REFERENCES [1] G. F. M. Beenker, " A note on extended quadratic r...

Recent evidence suggests that insulin may influence many brain functions. It is known that intracerebroventricular (icv) injection of nondiabetogenic doses of streptozotocin (STZ) can damage insulin receptor signal transduction. In the present study, we examined the functional damage to the brain insulin receptors on central mechanisms regulating glomerular filtration rate and urinary sodium ex...

BACKGROUND Calcitonin is the most sensitive and specific marker for medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC). AIMS The aim of this study was to emphasize the role and the limits of plasma basal calcitonin (bCT) measurement in the management of Moroccan MTC patients and their relatives. SETTINGS AND DESIGN This is a retrospective study on 6 MTC patients referred to our institute from January 1996 t...

Global climate change and invasions by nonnative species rank among the top concerns for agents of biological loss in coming decades. Although each of these themes has seen considerable attention in the modeling and forecasting communities, their joint effects remain little explored and poorly understood. We developed ecological niche models for 1804 species from the European flora, which we pr...

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There is a paucity of longitudinal investigations of gambling behavior in the transition from adolescence to emerging adulthood. We conducted a longitudinal investigation of the associations and patterns of change between mental health symptoms and gambling behavior. A representative sample of Norwegians completed questionnaires containing demographic, mental health, and gambling measures at ag...

The impact of a school health club on adult perception of onchocerciasis and compliance with ivermectin was evaluated in an onchocerciasis-endemic community in southeastern Nigeria. Venous blood was collected from each of 26, 32 and 124 randomly selected subjects during ivermectin distribution programmes in 1995 1996 and 1997 respectively. Ivermectin concentrations were measured in the samples....

This paper is concerned about maximum principles and radial symmetry for viscosity solutions of fully nonlinear partial differential equations. We obtain the radial symmetry and monotonicity properties for nonnegative viscosity solutions of F ( D2u ) + u = 0 in R (0.1) under the asymptotic decay rate u = o(|x|− 2 p−1 ) at infinity, where p > 1 (Theorem 1, Corollary 1). As a consequence of our s...

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A whole genome sequencing was performed of strain M. tuberculosis 11502 (NCBI biosamples database, access code SAMN17832565) that assigned to the Beijing genotype subtype B0/W148 cluster 100-32, based on MIRU- VNTR loci (n = 24) structure, a nd t hat exhibited pre-extended d rug resistance. resistant isoniazid, rifampicin, ethambutol, levofloxacin, and ethionamide, which correlated with presenc...