Aim—To assess the cell mediated immune response to BCG vaccine in preterm babies. Methods—Sixty two consecutive preterm babies born at < 35 weeks of gestation were randomly allocated into two groups. Babies in group A were vaccinated early at 34–35 weeks and group B were vaccinated late at 38–40 weeks of postconceptional age. The two groups were similar in terms of: gestational age (mean (SD) 3...

Objectives—To determine the incidence of catheter related thrombosis and to test the eYcacy of recombinant tissue type plasminogen activator (rt-PA) in preterm infants. Study design—From January 1995 to December 1998, echocardiography was performed in the first few days of life in 76 very low birthweight (< 1500 g) infants out of a total of 147 having an umbilical catheter placed. When intracar...

Many countries in 1995-2008 have experienced what we call “value added erosion”, which describes the phenomenon of the decline in the shares of domestic value added in a country’s exports as the country becomes more integrated into the Global Value Chains (GVCs). We argue that the decline of domestic value added share in a country’s exports is likely to be caused by the expansion of high value-...

Abstract. It has been substantiated that digitalization is a driver of the transformation employment in different countries.The degree formation digitalized labor market by groups countries with levels per capita income studied. proved use digital technologies vast majority companies and economically active population simplifies procedure job creation, giving opportunity to work via Internet wi...

This paper is the first of its kind to comparatively examine the evolution of feminized migration flows from Moldova and Georgia in the post-Soviet period. Despite some similarities between the two countries, unique migration patterns have emerged from each as the result of the complex interplay among social, political, and economic transitions. Changing labour market needs in receiving countri...

Many countries in 1995-2008 have experienced what we call the “valueadded erosion”, which describes the phenomenon of the decline in the sectoral shares of domestic value-added in a country’s exports as the country becomes more integrated into the Global Value Chains (GVCs). We argue that the decline of domestic value added share in a country’s exports is likely to be caused by the expansion of...

Birds express two β-parvalbumin isoforms, parvalbumin 3 and avian thymic hormone (ATH). Parvalbumin 3 from chicken (CPV3) is identical to rat β-parvalbumin (β-PV) at 75 of 108 residues. CPV3 displays intermediate Ca(2+) affinity--higher than that of rat β-parvalbumin, but lower than that of ATH. As in rat β-PV, the attenuation of affinity is associated primarily with the CD site (residues 41-70...

In this note we present a short proof of the following theorem of D. Jaffe and D. Ruberman: Theorem [Ja-Ru]. A sextic hypersurface in P3 has at most 65 nodes. The bound is sharp by Barth’s construction [Ba] of a sextic with 65 nodes. Following Beauville [Be], to a set of n nodes on a surface is associated a linear subspace of F (where F is the field with two elements) whose elements corresponds...

Casarini, D. E., M. A. Boim, R. C. R. Stella, and N. Schor. Endopeptidases (kininases) are able to hydrolyze kinins in tubular fluid along the rat nephron. Am. J. Physiol. 276 (Renal Physiol. 45): F66–F74, 1999.—The activities of serine endopeptidase, prolyl endopeptidase and neutral endopeptidase were determined in tubular fluid collected from several portions of the rat nephron as well as in ...