Schizophrenia is a heterogeneous disease characterised by an array of clinical manifestations. A large number of studies over the last 20 years have pointed towards immune system abnormalities in patients suffering from this condition. In addition, the psychosis and cognitive dysfunction associated with schizophrenia have been shown to be linked with autoimmune diseases. Here, we review the evi...

Epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutation status of lung cancer is important because it indicates induction of EGFR-TKI (tyrosine kinase inhibitor) treatment. EGFR mutation has been reported to be strongly related with never-smoker, female, adenocarcinoma and Asians (Lynch et al., 2004; Paez et al., 2004; Pao et al., 2004). There is a striking difference in the frequency of EGFR mutation...

About 60% of adults in the United States do not consume the estimated average requirement for magnesium, but widespread pathological conditions attributed to magnesium deficiency have not been reported. Nevertheless, low magnesium status has been associated with numerous pathological conditions characterized as having a chronic inflammatory stress component. In humans, deficient magnesium intak...

In fault-tolerant components reaIized using replication, severai alternate results are produce d, from which a single correct result must be derived. This is done by a mechanism, that we call an adjudicator Ca concept more generaI than a voter), which uses as its inputs the individuaI results produced by the replicated subcomponents comprising the redundant component. This paper gives a rigouro...

The article is devoted to the study of chaplain’s legal status as a serviceman Ukrainian army, and service military chaplains component public system in Ukraine, identification signs peculiarities their regulation. authors suggest considering chaplain an employee separate type service, which has dualistic status: on one hand, he serviceman, other, religious servant certain church. Despite fact ...

Hotelling’s statistic, also called T-statistic, is widely used in statistical process control as an extension of the univariate student’s chart to reliably detect out of control status in multivariate processes. Although it is a very efficient tool for detection purposes, by itself, it offers no assistance about the origin of the declared faulty status. Several different approaches have been pr...

INTRODUCTION Imprisoned people have usually a poor health status in comparison with the general population. The aim is to investigate a possible association between the quality of life and physical activity level in male inmates. METHODS A cross-sectional pilot study was carried out between 2010 and 2011. A questionnaire contained SF12 and International Physical Activity Questionnaire was adm...

Our world is becoming increasingly heterogeneous, decentralized and distributed, but the software that is supposed to work in this world, usually, is not. TSpaces is a communication package whose purpose is to alleviate the problems of hooking together disparate distributed systems. TSpaces is a global communication middleware component that incorporates database features, such as transactions,...

BACKGROUND Seasonal variation affects food availability. However, it is not clear if it affects dietary intake and nutritional status of children in Vietnam. OBJECTIVES This paper aims at examining the seasonal variation in nutrition status and dietary intake of children aged 24-59 months. DESIGN A repeated cross-sectional study design was used to collect data of changes in nutritional stat...

This paper describes the status of the standardization efforts of a Component Metadata approach for describing Language Resources with metadata. Different linguistic and Language & Technology communities as CLARIN, META-SHARE and NaLiDa use this component approach and see its standardization of as a matter for cooperation that has the possibility to create a large interoperable domain of joint ...