BACKGROUND We hypothesized that ephedrine and phenylephrine are equal with respect to uterine and placental haemodynamics and fetal acid-base status after exposure to maternal hypoxaemia and hypotension in a chronic sheep model of increased placental vascular resistance (R(UA)). METHODS At 114-135 days gestation, chronically instrumented fetal sheep underwent placental embolization leading to...

AIM To evaluate the long-term safety and effectiveness of lopinavir/ritonavir (LPV/r) in a population-based cohort of HIV-1-infected children. METHODS All children enrolled in the Swiss Mother and Child HIV Cohort Study, treated with LPV/r-based combination antiretroviral treatment (cART) between November 2000 and October 2008, were included. RESULTS 88 children (25 (28%) protease inhibitor...

in this paper, we present some inequalities for the co-pi index involving the some topological indices, the number of vertices and edges, and the maximum degree. after that, we give a result for trees. in addition, we give some inequalities for the largest eigenvalue of the co-pi matrix of g.

In this paper we present an application of the propositional SATisfiability environment to computing some simple orthogonal matrices and some interesting tasks in the area of cryptanalysis. We show how one can code a search for some kind of desired objects as a propositional formulae in such a way that their satisfying valuations code such objects. Some encouraging (and not very encouraging) ex...

BACKGROUND Plasma concentrations of tenofovir increase when the drug is coadministered with some ritonavir-boosted protease inhibitors (PI/r). We hypothesized that tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (TDF)-treated patients taking PI/r-based regimens would have a greater decline in renal function than patients receiving nonnucleoside reverse-transcriptase inhibitor (NNRTI)-based therapy. METHODS We ...

Suppose {f1, . . . , fm} is a set of Lipschitz maps of R . We form the iterated function system (IFS) by independently choosing the maps so that the map fi is chosen with probability pi ( ∑ m i=1 pi = 1). We assume that the IFS contracts on average. We give an upper bound for the Hausdorff dimension of the invariant measure induced on R and as a corollary show that the measure will be singular ...

This study presents new analyses of NEO Personality Inventory-Revised (NEO-PI-R) responses collected from a large British sample in a high-stakes setting. The authors show the appropriateness of the five-factor model underpinning these responses in a variety of new ways. Using the recently developed exploratory structural equation modeling (ESEM) technique, the authors show that model fits impr...

We prove that the ramified Prym map P g , r <mm...

We consider the following problem. Let n ≥ 2, b ≥ 1 and q ≥ 2 be integers. Let R and B be two disjoint sets of n red points and bn blue points in the plane, respectively, such that no three points of R∪B lie on the same line. Let n = n1 + n2 + · · · + nq be an integer-partition of n such that 1 ≤ ni for every 1 ≤ i ≤ q. Then we want to partition R∪B into q disjoint subsets P1 ∪P2 ∪ · · · ∪Pq th...