Background: The aim of present study is to asset the IL-2 promoter gene (SNP -475) as a candidate gene for multiple sclerosis (MS) susceptibility. Methods: This study included 70 patients with relapsing – remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS) and 50 healthy controls. Following the extraction of genomic DNA from peripheral blood, frequency of genotypes and alleles of SNP -475 was calculated usi...

The thermal stability of Cs 2 AgInCl 6 is improved from 7.4%@475 K to 51.3%@475 by substituting Sc for In.

The reimbursement of hospital Part A cost by Medicare under the original prospective payment system (PPS) created serious financial problems for hospitals in many areas but was especially serious in patients receiving mechanical ventilation. Subsequent revisions of the PPS corrected some of the financial burden of the cost of such patients when the patient required tracheostomy for prolonged ve...

Degradation of Amino Acids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 474 Influence of Methanogens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475 Obligately Syntrophic Amino Acid Deamination . . . . . . . 475 Syntrophic Arginine, Threonine, and Lysine Fermentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475 Facu...

IgE, and atopy. Results: We measured the total serum IgE of 155 children. The number of obese and normal weight children with family history of atopic disease who had high level of total serum IgE were 30 and 25 respectively, whereas these children who had normal level of total serum IgE were 6 and 15 respectively [OR 1⁄4 1.9 (95% CI 0.9-3.9)]. On the other hand, obese and normal weight childre...

Donahue and Clare (1999) provide a number of criticisms of our study of the ecological effects of ultraviolet (UV) light in a Tennessee stream (Hill et al. 1997), asserting that errors in experimental design, site selection, and parameter choice prevented us from detecting potential UV effects on periphyton and grazers. Here, we examine the merit of these criticisms and reemphasize the potentia...

Delta, a simple measure of the difference between two texts, has been proposed by John F. Burrows as a tool in authorship attribution problems, particularly in large ‘open’ problems in which conventional methods of attribution are not able to limit the claimants effectively. This paper tests Delta’s effectiveness and accuracy, and shows that it works nearly as well on prose as it does on poetry...