New Zealand is developing a national inventory of carbon (C) sinks and sources for reporting under the Kyoto Protocol and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The first cycle of inventory is due for completion in 2005. To support this inventory, we estimated rates of net C change by scaling site-specific measurements and models of C accumulation to national levels using sp...

In this paper, a new class of generalized separation axioms (briefly, g-Tg-separation axioms) whose elements are called g-Tg,K, g-Tg,F, g-Tg,H, g-Tg,R, g-Tg,N-axioms is defined in terms sets g-Tg-sets) topological spaces Tg-spaces) and the properties characterizations Tg-space endowed with each such discussed. The study shows that g-Tg,F-axiom implies g-Tg,K-axiom, g-Tg,H-axiom g-Tg,F-axiom, g-...

BACKGROUND Thyroglobulin (Tg) measurements are complicated by interference from Tg autoantibodies (TgAbs) or heterophilic antibodies (HAMAs). We used a new automated immunochemiluminometric assay (ICMA) with Tg recovery (TgR) on the Nichols Advantage platform to reassess the clinical utility of recovery testing in detecting interference in serum Tg measurement in patients with differentiated th...

type 1 diabetes mellitus is frequently associated with autoimmune thyroid disease (atd).genetic susceptibility for autoantibody formation in association with atd and type 1 diabetes mellitus has been described with varying frequencies, but there is still debate about its prevailing situation in iran.  we have therefore investigated the prevalence of anti-thyroid peroxidase (anti-tpo) and anti t...

PURPOSE Brachytherapy treatment has been a cornerstone for management of various cancer sites, particularly for the treatment of gynecological malignancies. In low dose rate brachytherapy treatments, 137Cs sources have been used for several decades. A new 137Cs source design has been introduced (model 67-6520, source B3-561) by Isotope Products Laboratories (IPL) for clinical application. The g...

INTRODUCTION Transaortic valve implantation (TAVI) has a well-established position in the treatment of high-risk and inoperable patients with severe aortic stenosis (AS). The TAVI protocol requires a pre-dilatation for native valve preparation. AIM To assess the safety and feasibility of TAVI without pre-dilatation and to compare it with the procedure with pre-dilatation. MATERIAL AND METHO...