Worldwide, >1 million people have developed endstage renal disease (ESRD) and need renal replacement therapy. ESRD is secondary to a broad range of diseases that include diabetic nephropathy and focal and segmental glomerulosclerosis. The rate of progression to ESRD varies among patients suffering from kidney diseases, and is to a large extent determined by genetic factors. We will discuss stud...

Various (4-substituted) phenyl-3-β-[(N-benzenesulphonyl/tosyl)-4-(un)substituted anilino]propionylamido-1,3-thiazolidine-4-ones (3a-x) and 1-β-[(N-benzenesulphonyl/tosyl)-4-(un)substituted anilino]-propionylamido-3-chloro-4-(4-substituted)phenyl-azetidin-2-ones (4a-x) have been synthesised by the cyclocondensation of Schiff bases (2a-x) with thioglycolic acid and chloroacetyl chloride, respecti...

The presence of paranoid thoughts is not exclusive to clinical disorder; recent data suggest that their prevalence follows an exponential-shaped curve, with many people experiencing a few such thoughts, while a few people experience many such thoughts. Wong et al (pp. 221–229) found that this exponential curve was also evident in their assessment of paranoid thoughts in children, but the freque...

The methods to classify extremal unimodular lattices with given automorphisms are extended the situation of modular lattices. A slightly more general notion than type from PhD thesis [11] is det-type. det-type an automorphism on L determines one all partial dual L. This easy observation allows exclude quite a few det-types left open in [11]. Passing suitable p-maximal lattices, ?-modular compos...