BACKGROUND Prompt access to artemesinin-combination therapy (ACT) is not adequate unless the drug is taken according to treatment guidelines. Adherence to the treatment schedule is important to preserve efficacy of the drug. Although some community based studies have reported fairly high levels of adherence, data on factors influencing adherence to artemether-lumefantrine (AL) treatment schedul...

Actin filament-associated protein-120kD (AFAP-120) is an alternatively spliced isoform of actin filament-associated protein-110kD (AFAP-110) and contains an additional neuronal insert (NINS) fragment in addition to identical domains to the AFAP-110. Unlike AFAP-110 widely expressed in tissues, AFAP-120 is specifically expressed in the nervous system and plays a role in organizing dynamic actin ...

Let P be the right-angled hyperbolic dodecahedron or 120-cell, and let W be the group generated by reflections across codimension-one faces of P . We prove that if Γ ⊂ W is a torsion free subgroup of minimal index, then the corresponding hyperbolic manifold Hn/Γ is determined up to homeomorphism by Γ modulo the symmetry group of P .

BACKGROUND Fournier's gangrene (FG) is a devastating and potentially fatal disease requiring prompt and aggressive debridement. In this study, it was aimed to assess the predictors of mortality in a large cohort. METHODS Prospectively maintained data of patients with FG were analyzed. Demographic data, duration of symptoms, Uludag Fournier's Gangrene Severity Index (UFGSI) scores, co-morbidit...

A scanning transmission electron microscope diffraction technique was used to determine the local orientation of copper grains in 120 nm copper interconnect (CI) lines. These grains exhibit a <1 1 0> normal orientation while the < 112 > and the < 1 11 > type orientations are present along the length and width of the CI line, respectively. Stresses, as high as 625 MPa, are present at the copper/...