CASE SUMMARY A 5-year-old male neutered domestic shorthair cat was referred with a history of persistent pyrexia, pica, soft faeces, inappetence, intermittent vomiting, mild-to-moderate granulocytosis and mild hypercalcaemia. No significant improvement was noted after antibiotic and corticosteroid treatment, except that the hypercalcaemia resolved. Physical examination, including thoracic auscu...

15 INTRODUCTION 16 EXPERIMENT 1 18 METHOD 19 RESULTS 21 DISCUSSION 22 EXPERIMENT 2 23 METHOD 23 RESULTS 24 DISCUSSION 26 EXPERIMENT 3 27 METHOD 27 RESULTS 28 GENERAL DISCUSSION 29 REFERENCES 33 CHAPTER 3 ‘BUT’ HOW DO WE REASON WITH IT: AN EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF THE IMPLICATURE STEMMING FROM ‘BUT’ 35 ABSTRACT 35 INTRODUCTION 36 EXPERIMENT 1 44 METHOD 4435 INTRODUCTION 36 EXPERIMENT 1 44 M...

PURPOSE The aim of this work is to evaluate the reliability and diagnostic accuracy of fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) of cervical lymph nodes with an emphasis on discordant cases between the cytology and the histopathology. PATIENTS AND METHODS This retrospective study was conducted on 157 selected patients with cervical lymphadenopathy that had undergone FNAC. Cervical nodal enlargem...

The aims of this work were to analyse the relationships between sense of coherence (SOC) and substance use among Spanish adolescents and to examine the potential moderator effect of the patterns of substance use in the peer group. Sample consisted of 5475 Spanish adolescents aged 15 to 18 from the 2010 edition of the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) study. Statistical analysis in...

Family Planning Perspectives even though penicillin has been an important and effective part of the public health campaign against syphilis and gonorrhea for more than 40 years, these STDs continue to be significant health problems. In fact, in some subgroups of the population, the incidence rates of these infections have risen dramatically.5 STDs persist in the U.S. population largely because ...

In this write-up, we extend quicksort to the task of fuzzy sorting of intervals. In many situations the precise value of a quantity is uncertain (e.g., any physical measurement is subject to noise). For such situations we may represent a measurement i as a closed interval [ai, bi], where ai ≤ bi. A fuzzysort is defined as a permutation 〈i1, i2, . . . , in〉 of the intervals such that there exist...

Heterobimetallic NiZn complexes featuring metal centers in distinct coordination environments have been synthesized using diimine–dioxime ligands as binucleating scaffolds. A tetramethylfuran-containing ligand derivative enables a stable one-electron-reduced S 1⁄4 1/2 species to be accessed using Cp2Co as a chemical reductant. The resulting pseudo-square planar complex exhibits spectroscopic an...