A total of 4,956 medical professionals from 84 countries attended the 26th International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine (ISICEM) in Brussels, Belgium. The 4-day conference, which took place from 21 to 24 March 2006, featured 769 presentations in 124 sessions, and covered a vast range of general, clinical, and experimental medicine topics in a variety of formats, from lecture...

Reviews Congenital absence of the portal vein—Case report and a review of literature (pages 750–758) Original Communications Three-dimensional morphometry of the A2 segment of the anterior cerebral artery with neurosurgical relevance (pages 759–769) Blood supply of the inferior turbinate and its clinical applications (pages 770–776) A cadaveric study of auricular lymphatics and implications for...

This paper presents some applications using several properties of three important symmetric polynomials: elementary symmetric polynomials, complete symmetric polynomials and the power sum symmetric polynomials. The applications includes a simple proof of El-Mikkawy conjecture in [M.E.A. El-Mikkawy, Appl. Math. Comput. 146 (2003) 759–769] and a very easy proof of the Newton–Girard formula. In ad...

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