A 9 year old boy with juvenile dermatomyositis developed pulmonary alveolar lipoproteinosis. This previously unreported association was treated successfully by bronchoalveolar lavage.

Asymptotic normalization coefficients (ANC), defining the normalization of the tail of nuclear bound-state wave functions projected onto the two-body channels, play an important role in nuclear reaction and structure theory. In our previous work, we have demonstrated that ANCs can be successfully used as normalization coefficients for the nonresonant capture amplitudes in the R matrix approach ...

Measurements of second-stage juveniles of Heterodera schachtii from California and The Netherlands and a race of H. trifolii from The Netherlands were obtained and compared to determine if these populations can be differentiated by morphometrics. Juvenile lengths of 10 specimens from each of 10 cysts of each population were measured. Dimensions of tail regions of 20 juveniles from individual cy...

The decrease of crystal phonon peak intensities in Raman spectra silicon carbide after heavy-ion irradiation is analysed relation to band-gap shrinkage and Urbach edge slope increase arising ...

Kirby (1994) has helpfully applied the terminology of signal detection theory to Watson's selection task. We agree with him that it is necessary to bring out the decision theoretic aspects of the selection task (Evans, Over & Manktelow, 1993), and Kirby makes an important contribution by doing this so fully for an abstract version of the task. However, there are problems with both the design of...

A paradigmatic example of an emotional bias in decision making is the framing effect, where the manner in which a choice is posed--as a potential loss or a potential gain--systematically biases an ensuing decision. Two fMRI studies have shown that the activation in the amygdala is modulated by the framing effect. Here, contrary to an expectation based on these studies, we show that two patients...

Recently a number of authors have tried to avoid the failures of traditional Dutch book arguments by separating them from pragmatic concerns of avoiding a sure loss. In this paper I examine defenses of this kind by Howson and Urbach, Hellman, and Christensen. I construct rigorous explications of their arguments and show that they are not cogent. I advocate abandoning Dutch book arguments in fav...

The use of recent technologies for the increase of growth indexes and the plants yields is an important aspects and till now many research works for this has been done. One of these efforts is the usage of magnetic water and zeolite for the increase of yield plants. This research work is an study on the effects of magnetic water and zeolite that has been done on frame work of pore random design...