A new method recently used for measuring the temperature is using tympanic thermometer. The aim of this study was to compare the accuracy of this method with rectal and axillary measurement in children less than 6 years old. A total of 220 pair ears, axillaries, and rectal sites were used to determine the body temperature in patients aged between 3 months to 6 years who referred to Emergency De...

Strong gravitational lensing and stellar dynamics provide two complementary and orthogonal constraints on the density profiles of galaxies. Based on spherically symmetric, scale-free, mass models, it is shown that the combination of both techniques is powerful in breaking the mass-sheet and mass-anisotropy degeneracies. Second, observational results are presented from the Lenses Structure & Dyn...

The accelerating expansion of the universe suggests that an unknown component with strongly negative pressure, called dark energy, currently dominates the dynamics of the universe. Such a component makes up ∼ 70% of the energy density of the universe yet has not been predicted by the standard model of particle physics. The best method for exploring the nature of this dark energy is to map the r...

We extract, from a quark model potential that reproduces the number and ordering of nonstrange baryonic resonances up to 2.3 GeV, the quantum numbers for the dominant configurations in the ground and first non-radial excited states. From the pattern of quantum numbers we identify, from data, spectral regularities that allow us to predict the expected high spin low-lying spectrum from 2.3 to 3.0...

BACKGROUND Increased levels of plasma nuclear and mitochondrial DNA have been reported in critically ill patients. We tested the hypothesis that plasma nuclear and mitochondrial DNA are substantially increased in acute bacterial meningitis and decrease after antimicrobial therapy, and that plasma nuclear and mitochondrial DNA levels can predict treatment outcomes. METHODS We examined serial p...

Soit P une matrice bistochastique de taille n, et Π permutation n. Dans cet article, nous intéressons au temps mélange la chaîne Markov dont transition est donnée par Q=PΠ. En d’autres termes, alterne entre des sauts aléatoires gouvernés déterministes Π. Nous montrons que si choisie uniformément hasard, alors, sous légères hypothèses sur P, avec grande probabilité, Q présente un cutoff logn h, ...

BACKGROUND Levels of von Willebrand factor antigen (vWF-Ag) increase during combination antiviral therapy of chronic hepatitis C (CHC). The present study investigates the association between these changes in vWF-Ag levels and response to treatment. METHODS Changes in levels of vWF-Ag on antiviral combination treatment in 184 patients with CHC genotype 1 or 4 infections were measured prospecti...

LINGFANG ZENG, CHAO JIN, BHARADWAJ VEERAVALLI AND DAN FENG Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics School of Computer Huazhong University of Science and Technology Wuhan, 430074 P.R. China Data Storage Institute 117608 Singapore Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering National University of Singapore 117576 Singapore E-mail: {lfzeng; dfeng}@hust.edu.cn; [email protected]...

After 100 years of effort, the classification of all the finite subgroups of SU(3) is yet incomplete. The most recently updated list can be found in [3], where the structure of the series (C) and (D) of SU(3)-subgroups is studied. We provide a minimal set of generators for one of these groups which has order 162. These generators appear up to phase as the image of an irreducible unitary braid g...