Publications are increasingly (often wrongly) being used as research outputs. Furthermore, ‘impacts’ of such publications are often (wrongly as well) measured using ‘citations’. Popular metric, like the ‘Hirsch index’, or ‘h-index’ is used as yardstick for judging the quality of individual researchers. However, there are many controversies around it, whether it is a good yardstick, which could ...

I read the recent publication by Leong et al on the effect of pyridostigmine or Mestinon on human platelet aggregation with a great interest. In medicine, pyridostigmine has been investigated for its effect on biochemical and hematological parameters. Indeed, such effects have already been studied in animal models. Somani et al reported on signifi cant change due to receipt of pyridostigmine in...

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pisciculture has benefited human being during last decades. among different species oncorhynchus mykiss is of great important. its increasing mortality due to infectious diseases and also infectivity of synthetic drugs motivated us to evaluate the effect of alcoholic extract of plantago ovata on some hematological parameters of this species. hematological parameters could act as symptoms of hea...

background: hematological effects and digestive and neuro-psychological signs and symptoms are some manifestations of lead toxicity. however, there are conflicting reports of their prevalence among lead exposed workers and their relationship with blood lead levels (bll). this case- control study assessed the relationship between bll and hematological indexes and digestive (abdominal colic, iron...

Rev Bras Hematol Hemoter. 2011;33(4):250-8 3. Liu Z, Cumberland WG, Hultin LE, Prince HE, Detels R, Giorgi JV. Elevated CD38 antigen expression on CD8+ T cells is a stronger marker for the risk of chronic HIV disease progression to AIDS and death in the Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study than CD4+ cell count, soluble immune activation markers, or combinations of HLA-DR and CD38 expression. J Acquir ...

Objectives: The hematological changes associated with acute malaria are well recognized. This study was conducted to assess and compare the incidence and severity of hematological changes in various types of malaria in adult population. Methodology: This observational study included 133 acute malaria patients admitted in the Infectious Diseases Unit of Rashid Hospital Dubai (JCI accredited) UAE...

In this paper, we construct a fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) scheme over integers with the message space ZQ for any prime Q. Even for the binary case Q = 2, our decryption circuit has a smaller degree than that of the previous scheme; the multiplicative degree is reduced from O(λ(log λ)) to O(λ), where λ is the security parameter. We also extend our FHE scheme to a batch FHE scheme.

The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Reg­ istry (ATSDR) derives minimal risk levels (MRLs) to assist in evaluating risk of adverse health effects in individuals exposed to hazardous substances. MRLs are derived from published values identifying no-ob­ served-adverse-effect levels (NOAELs) or lowest-ob­ served-adverse-effect levels (LOAELs) in animal or hu­ man studies. The most sensitive...