awareness of the plight of this unique habitat. The Swiss photographer, Thomas Marent, has spent his adult life seeking out the spectacular beauty of the most striking plants and creatures. Tackling everything from poor light to predatory animals, biting insects, invisible diseases and intense humidity, Marent has ventured through rainforests from Costa Rica and Peru to Borneo, Sulawesi and Aus...

To cite: Bannaga ASE, Wiles S, Rahama O, et al. BMJ Case Rep Published online: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/ bcr-2013-201319 DESCRIPTION An 18-year-old woman presented with a 1 day history of a rash that began centrally, over the abdomen, that progressed to cover the entirety of her body, most strikingly on her face. Five days prior to this presentation she suffered from fever, d...

Background Breast milk can turn pink with Serratia marcescens colonization, this bacterium has been associated with several diseases and even death. It is seen most commonly in the intensive care settings. Discoloration of the breast milk can lead to premature termination of nursing. We describe two cases of pink-colored breast milk in which S. marsescens was isolated from both the expressed br...

background: freezing is a common way and one of the best methods of seafood preservation for long periods of time; however, the freeze thawing process may influence the quality of food. objectives: oxidation and denaturation of proteins, sublimation and recrystallization of ice crystals can cause changes in the quality of the frozen products. this study was aimed to evaluate the effect of three...

Programmability and IEEE-standard floating point arithmetic makes the latest commodity graphics processors (GPUs) an attractive platform for general parallel computing. In this paper we describe the implementation of the Warshall-Floyd algorithm on a class of GPUs. All-pairs shortest paths problem is relevant to many practical applications. Efficient GPU implementation of the Warshall-Floyd alg...

In order to verify semialgebraic programs, we automatize the Floyd/Naur/Hoare proof method. The main task is to automatically infer valid invariants and rank functions. First we express the program semantics in polynomial form. Then the unknown rank function and invariants are abstracted in parametric form. The implication in the Floyd/Naur/Hoare verification conditions is handled by abstractio...

In this paper we give some examples of 1/f processes and show the (nearly) 1/f behavior of sea-wave noise data. Wavelet-based method is used as a tool to analyze the power-law relationship that is observed in the wavelet coefficients’ variance progression.