We consider the MSSM with see-saw mechanism of neutrino mass generation and soft SUSY breaking with flavour-universal boundary conditions at the GUT scale, in which the lepton flavour violating (LFV) decays μ → e + γ, τ → μ + γ, etc., are predicted with rates that can be within the reach of present and planned experiments. These predictions depend critically on the matrix of neutrino Yukawa cou...

Background—Because elastase in 1-antitrypsin deficiency may attack elastin in the arterial wall, we tested whether 1-antitrypsin deficiency is associated with reduced blood pressure, risk of ischemic cerebrovascular (ICVD) and ischemic heart disease (IHD), and longevity. Methods and Results—We genotyped 7963 control subjects from the adult general population of Denmark, 1131 Danish patients wit...

BACKGROUND The impact of anesthetic choice on postoperative mortality and morbidity has not been determined with certainty. METHODS The authors evaluated the effect of type of anesthesia on postoperative mortality and morbidity in a retrospective cohort study of consecutive hip fracture patients, aged 60 yr or older, who underwent surgical repair at 20 US hospitals between 1983 and 1993. The ...

Technical limitations in image capturing usually impose defective, such as contrast degradation. There are different approaches to improve the contrast of an image. Among the exiting approaches, un-sharp masking is a popular method due to its simplicity in implementation and computation. There is an important parameter in un-sharp masking, named gain factor, which affects the quality of the enh...

background: this study sought to assess symphyseal morphology in adolescents with different mandibular growth patterns (mgps) in order to see if a relation exists. materials and methods: in this study the symphyseal parameters (height, depth, and ratio) of normal subjects were compared with four groups with malocclusion (cl iii vertical, cl ii vertical, cl iii horizontal, and cl ii horizontal)....

patients and methods using convenience sampling, people with chb attending four public liver clinics and one general practice in three australian jurisdictions between april and september 2013 completed a self-administered questionnaire about their feelings about having hepatitis b. results ninety-three people completed the survey. mean age was 45 years, 57% were men, and 93% were born overseas...