14.5 mg/L; range, 6.9 –24.8 mg/L). No correlation was found between cTnI and ST-segment changes. Electrocardiograms showed ST-segment alteration in two patients with echocardiographic signs of MC and in two patients without MC signs. cTnI concentrations peaked between 6 and 12 h after chest trauma and disappeared 48–96 h after the trauma. Thus, the diagnostic window was narrower than it is duri...

Gloeotrichia echinulata is a bloom-forming cyanobacterium that is common in eutrophic lakes, and less prevalent but increasing in oligotrophic lakes. We used an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay analysis to test for the presence of the hepatotoxin microcystin-LR (MC-LR) in G. echinulata collected from an oligotrophic lake in central New Hampshire, USA. We found that G. echinulata contained MC-L...

Rationale: Mast cells (MCs) contribute to the formation of abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAAs) by producing biologically active mediators. Tryptase is the most abundant MC granule protein and participates in MC activation, protease maturation, leukocyte recruitment, and angiogenesis—all processes critical to AAA pathogenesis. Objective: To test the hypothesis that tryptase participates directly i...

Processor allocation, the spatial assignment of a set of processors to each scheduled job, is an important issue in the drive to fully realize the performance potential of massively parallel supercomputers. With the advent of non-contiguous processor allocation strategies , the fragmentation problem has been solved and system utilization has improved. However, message-passing contention is the ...

BACKGROUND Research indicates the development of motor co-ordination (MC) may be an important contributing factor to positive or negative weight trajectories across childhood. OBJECTIVES To analyse cross-sectional associations between MC and weight status in children (boys n = 3344 - girls n = 3281), aged 6-11 years and assess overweight/obese risk across different ages. METHODS Body mass i...

Root lesions may affect both dorsal and ventral roots. However, due to the possibility of generating further inflammation and neuropathic pain, surgical procedures do not prioritize the repair of the afferent component. The loss of such sensorial input directly disturbs the spinal circuits thus affecting the functionality of the injuried limb. The present study evaluated the motor and sensory i...

BACKGROUND Invasive meningococcal disease, due to Neisseria meningitidis, is an important cause of morbidity and mortality in young children and adolescents. Nasopharyngeal carriage of meningococci (MC), is most prevalent in young adults whereas carriage of Neisseria lactamica (LC), a related non-pathogenic organism, is most prevalent in young children. The objective of this study was to use mo...

By COMMANDER HAROLD A. LYONS (MC) USN, AND L’r. (JG) J. GRANT HARRISON (MC) USN T HE DEMONSTRATION in 1932. by Paul and Bunnell’ that the blood serum of patients with the sporadic form of infectious mononucleosis contained antibodies against sheep erthrocytes in concentrations far above a normal titer was an important advance in the study and diagnosis of this disease. It gave a good test for t...

The current work sought to test the moderating role of a multicultural ideology on the relationship between categorisation salience and ingroup bias. Accordingly, in one experimental study, we manipulated categorisation salience and the accessibility of a multicultural ideology, and measured intergroup attitudes. Results show that categorisation salience only leads to ingroup bias when a multic...

The aim of this study was to analyze the prevalence of Toxocara spp. antibodies in children from two different socioeconomic classes in the Presidente Prudente municipality, São Paulo State, Brazil, and the protective and risk factors associated with toxocariasis. One hundred and twenty-six middle-class (MC) and 126 disadvantaged children (DC) were included in this study. Anti-Toxocara ELISA te...