BACKGROUND AND STUDY AIMS During colorectal endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD), the feature of a muscle layer being pulled toward a neoplastic tumor is sometimes detected. We call this feature the muscle-retracting sign (MR sign). The aim of this study was to evaluate whether the MR sign is associated with particular types of neoplastic lesions and whether it has any clinical significance f...

The first report of a case of human infection with Salmonella choleraesuis was made by Longcope in -1902.6 The clinical manifestations of infection with this organism have been described by Harvey,4 who reviewed the literature up to that date and added 21 cases of his own treated at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, and have been further elaborated by Saphra and Wassermann,'2 who identified the organ...

Guo and Zudilin (Adv Math, 346: 329–358, 2019) introduced a new method called ‘creative microscoping’, to prove many q-supercongruences in unified way. In this paper, we apply Watson’s \({}_8\phi _7\) transformation formula two q-supercongruences, which were recently conjectured by Schlosser.

Over the past 30 years, California condor (Gymnogyps californianus) population has rebounded from 22 individuals to over 200 birds living in wild. Historical impacts have been largely anthropogenic. In this study, we explore mortality and cause of death data condors that died during years 2010-2014 compare these described by Rideout et al. 2012, covering 1992-2009. addition, morphologic genetic...

In this paper we prove existence results for some nonlinear degenerate elliptic equations with data in the space of bounded Radon measures and we improve the results already obtained in Cirmi G.R., On the existence of solutions to non-linear degenerate elliptic equations with measure data, Ricerche Mat. 42 (1993), no. 2, 315–329.

Research Institute of Life Science,Snow Brand Milk Products Co.,Ltd.,a Ishihashi , Shimotsugagun,Tochigi 329-05,Japan,Department of Bacteriology,National Defence Medical College,b Namiki,Tokorosawa,Saitama 359,Japan, Department of Microbial Chemistry,Tokyo College of Pharmacy,` Hachioji,Tokyo 192-03,Japan and Department of Immunology. Medical Institute for Bioregulation,Kyushu University,d Maid...