Summary Background. Volumetric pollen traps are commonly used to assess pollen exposure. These traps are well suited for estimating the regional mean airborne pollen concentration but are likely not to provide an accurate index of personal exposure. In this study, we tested the hypothesis that hair sampling may provide different pollen counts from those from pollen traps, especially when the po...

Tropical Morpho butterfl ies are known for their iridescence. [ 1 ] Extensive research has been dedicated to analyzing the nanoscale architecture of Morpho butterfl y wings to understand their brilliant blue or white–purple iridescence The wing scales of Morpho butterfl ies contain 3D nanostructures that produce blue iridescent colors. Incident light is diffracted from multilayered nanostructur...

In 1974, parvovirus B19 was discovered by co-incidence, and in 1983 found to be the etiology of erythema infectiosum. It is now generally accepted that parvovirus B19 epidemics occur approximately every three years in Denmark with sporadic cases occurring in between. There were no official recordings regarding parvovirus B19 epidemics in Denmark in 1991, but the fact that all pregnant women fro...

Disasters, war, and terrorism expose millions of children globally to mass trauma with increasing frequency and severity. The clinical impact of such exposure is influenced by a child's social ecology, which is understood in a risk and resilience framework. Research findings informed by developmental systems theory and the related core principles of contemporary developmental psychopathology ar...

Sepiapterin reductase deficiency (SRD) is a rare, treatable disorder of monoamine metabolism with cognitive delay and l-dopa responsive movement disorder. We describe a patient with SRD and distinctive phenotypic feature of marked hypersomnolence. Our patient showed improvement with therapies directed at both serotonergic and dopaminergic deficiencies. This case illustrates symptoms that charac...

As the media interest in H1N1 Influenza A (‘swine flu’) ebbs and wanes, it is important to prepare ourselves for the societaldnot just the medicaldimplications of this outbreak. While practitioners may, rightly, anticipate a desire for physical intervention (eg, face masks), psychologists also point to the societal ‘out-grouping’ that can follow an epidemic. Often, when populations face a seemi...

drought is the main constraint limiting chickpea productivity which makes a considerable difference between the potential and actual yield. in order to evaluate the effect of drought stress on different morpho-physiological characteristics of chickpea, four distinct genotypes were studied in three sampling times (pre-stress, stress and recovery) with three replications. as the results implicate...

Part-of-speech (POS) tagging for morphologically rich languages normally requires the use of handcrafted features that encapsulate clues about the language’s morphology. In this work, we tackle Portuguese POS tagging using a deep neural network that employs a convolutional layer to learn character-level representation of words. We apply the network to three different corpora: the original Mac-M...