BACKGROUND Children have been considered a risk group for lead (Pb) toxicity, mainly because of neurophysiological or neuro-cognitive deficits following Pb exposure. Blood Pb levels (b-Pb) of 100 microg/l currently have been defined as the lowest adverse effect level. The aim of this study was to compare, with the help of urinary markers, the kidney function of children with b-Pb just above thi...

While it is increasingly being recognized that biotic ligand models (BLMs) are valuable in the risk assessment of metals in aquatic systems, the development of chronic BLMs has been less advanced for lead than for other metals. The authors investigated the univariate effects of Ca and pH on the chronic reproductive toxicity of Pb to Ceriodaphnia dubia at 4 levels. Calcium influenced chronic Pb ...

Language transformation can be defined as translating between diachronically distinct language variants. We investigate the transformation of Middle Dutch into Modern Dutch by means of machine translation. We demonstrate that by using character overlap the performance of the machine translation process can be improved for this task.

A patient presented with a mild polyneuropathy, developed a large intra-abdominal haemorrhage and died of cardiac arrest within a few days. Microscopic examination revealed a polyangiitis overlap syndrome (Fauci) with lesions in many organs, including the peripheral nerves and the heart. A myocarditis was considered to be the cause of death.

Background: The aim of this study was to assess differences in fracture morphology and displacement betweenisolated greater tuberosity (GT) fractures (i.e. fractures of the greater tuberosity without other fractures of the proximalhumerus) with and without shoulder dislocation utilizing quantitative 3-dimensional CT imaging.Methods: Thirty-four CT-scans of isolated greater tuberosity fractures ...

this work deals with the calculation of franck-condon factors using hua potential function for the first time. the advantages of this function have been mentioned, and the numerical methods are used to obtain franck-condon factors for the following band systems: agreement between the values of this work and those obtained from other works is quite good that verifies the reliability of the prese...

1 1 Neural Correlates of Interand Intra-individual Saccadic Reaction Time Differences in 2 the Gap/Overlap Paradigm 3 4 5 6 7 Jale Özyurt, Mark W. Greenlee 8 9 10 1 Biological Psychology Lab, Institute of Psychology, Carl von Ossietzky University, 26111 11 Oldenburg 12 13 Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Regensburg, Universitätsstraße 14 31, Regensburg 93053, Germany 15 16 1...