right to hasten death’ ... but on well established, traditional rights to bodily integrity and freedom from unwanted touching.”41 Taken in their totality, these cases show that the American courts have cleaved closely to the guiding principle of one’s liberty to refuse unwanted medical treatment, and have thus far shown no signs of crossing to the other side of the act-omission divide. 35. Wash...

要 旨 単 純 ヘ ル ペ ス ウ イ ル ス1型(HSV-1)お よ び2型(HSV-2)の 遺 伝 子 を 同時 に検 出 す るmultiplex real-time PCR法 を 開発 し た. HSV-1お よびHSV-2のgpD領 域 を標 的 と し,プ ラ イ マ ー お よ びTaqMan蛍 光 プ ロ ー ブ を 独 自 に 設 計 し た.検 出感 度 は15copies/tubeで,HSV-1お よ びHSV-2と も15か ら1.5×106 copies/tubeの 範 囲 で 定 量 が 可 能 で あ っ た.real-time PCR法 はPCR法 よ り も103倍 感 度 が 高 く,他 の ヘ ルペ ス属(CMV, EBV, HHV6, HHV-7お よ びVZV) DNAは 検 出 され なか っ た. 以 上 の結 果 か ら,今 回 開 発...

ATYPICAL PATTERNS IN PORTABLE MONITORING FOR SLEEP APNEA: FEATURES OF NOCTURNAL EPILEPSY? Liborio Parrino, MD, * ; Giulia Milioli, MD, *; Andrea Grassi, MD, *; Fernando De Paolis, MD, *; Silvia Riccardi, MD, *; Elena Colizzi, MD, *; Marcello Bosi, MD, #; Mario Giovanni Terzano, MD*; *Sleep Disorders Center, Department of Neurosciences, University of Parma, Italy; # Operative Unit of Pulmonary. ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the sensitivity of 123I-labeled metaiodobenzylguanidine (123I-MIBG) scintigraphy in detecting diabetic autonomic nervous system disorders. MATERIALS AND METHODS Thirty-one-week-old male Otsuka Long-Evans Tokushima Fatty (OLETF) rats, an animal model of spontaneous non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, were maintained for 8 weeks with or without 30% sucrose solution as...

Abstract Background and Aims elevated Lipoprotein (a) levels are well recognized as a genetic risk factor for atherothrombotic events. Recently, new therapeutic approaches – such small interfering RNA (siRNA) antisense oligonucleotides (ASOs) have been developed under evaluation in phase 3 trials. Evidences from literature suggest the need screening Lp(a) premature coronary artery disease. Aim ...

This report documents the methods we used to process the cat/dog images and build classifiers for the Spring 2012 group final project for Math 521.

The sphere, because of its high symmetry, is what might be called a perfect shape. Unfortunately nature is imperfect and many apparently spherical bodies are better represented by an ellipsoid. Consequently in calculations about gravitational potential, for example, spherical harmonics have to be replaced by the much more complex ellipsoidal harmonics. Their theory, which was originated in the ...

These are lecture notes from a graduate course for Computer Science graduate students at Princeton University in Fall 2013 and Fall 2014. (The course also attracts undergrads and non-CS grads and total enrollment in 2014 was 35.) The course assumes prior knowledge of algorithms at the undergraduate level. This new course arose out of thinking about the right algorithms training for CS grads tod...

Homology theory is a powerful algebraic tool that is at the centre of current research in topology and its applications. This accessible textbook will appeal to students interested in the application of algebra to geometrical problems, specifically the study of surfaces (such as sphere, torus, Möbius band, Klein bottle). In this introduction to simplicial homology – the most easily digested ver...