The maximum allowable biological concentration of a toxic substance is the highest concentration which can be found in a biological medium without damage to health. The biological materials rna y be examined for: (a) the toxic substance itself; (b) a product of the metabolism of the toxic substance in the body; (c) a substance derived from the physiopathological activity of the toxic substance;...

Array comparative genomic hybridization (aCGH) is a laboratory technique to measure chromosomal copy number changes. A clear biological interpretation of the measurements is obtained by mapping these onto an ordinal scale with categories loss/normal/gain of a copy. The pattern of gains and losses harbors a level of tumor specificity. Here, we present WECCA (weighted clustering of called aCGH da...

When a patient comes to us with the history of having swallowed a foreign body, we naturally take it for granted that the body has passed into the food passage; and frequently it does so. In some cases, however, it does not get into the alimentary tract at all but passes into the other neighbouring passage, viz., the aii' passage?and most often into the right bronchus?the shorter and wider of t...

Peripartum cardiomyopathy (PPCM) is a rare obstetric emergency affecting women in late pregnancy or up to five months of postpartum period. The etiology of PPCM is still not known. It has potentially devastating effects on mother and fetus if not treated early. The signs, symptoms and treatment of PPCM are similar to that of heart failure. Early diagnosis and proper management is the corner sto...

modernity has been interpreted from different angles. scholars such as derida and lyotard talk about the end of modernity and the beginning of a new era called post-modernism, though thinkers like habermas do not believe in that.habermas who do not believe in the end of modernity and the beginning of post-modernism, finds modernism as the only way to human liberty who has chosen a wrong path an...

Array comparative genomic hybridization (aCGH) is a laboratory technique to measure chromosomal copy number changes. A clear biological interpretation of the measurements is obtained by mapping these onto an ordinal scale with categories loss/normal/gain of a copy. The pattern of gains and losses harbors a level of tumor specificity. Here, we present WECCA (weighted clustering of called aCGH da...

Last night Dave K rashna, S tu ­ d e n t Body P residen t, m ade charges o f “b la tan t d iscrim ina­ tio n ” in th e scholarship denial case o f senior Jim W erner. W erner was rec ip ien t o f a scholarship funded by Mr. Carl K och. Last spring, he w ro te a le tte r to his d o n o r inform ing him o f his progress a t N otre D am e. In his rem arks he in ­ cluded a list o f his activities, ...

This paper introduces the project ADIAC (Automatic Diatom Identiication and Classiication), which started in May 1998 and which is nanced by the European MAST (Marine Science and Technology) programme. The main goal is to develop algorithms for an automatic identiication of diatoms using image information: both valve shape (contour) and ornamentation. The paper presents the goals of the project...