We analyze and discuss a lunar occultation of the multiple star ζ Cnc, obtained in the near-infrared. The longsought D component, recently imaged with the help of adaptive optics also by Hutchings et al. (2000), is clearly seen in the occultation light curve, and we determine its projected separation and brightness ratio with high accuracy. Regarding the suggested binary nature of D, we provide...

AIM To examine the potential value of previously identified biomarkers using proteomics in early screening for preeclampsia (PE). METHODS 24 blood samples from women who subsequently developed PE and 48 from uncomplicated pregnancies were obtained at 11-13 weeks and analysed after delivery. Cystatin-C, sVCAM-1, and Pappalysin-1 were quantified by ELISA. Maternal characteristics and medical hi...

The longwavelength excitations of a quark-gluon plasma at high temperature can be described as collective oscillations of gauge and fermionic average fields. We show that, at leading order in the coupling strength, the Dyson-Schwinger equations for the N -point functions reduce to a set of coupled equations for these average fields and their induced sources which involve only 2-point functions....

Friedman et al examined 156 children 23 to 62 months after births associated with spontaneous labour, labour induced with oxytocin, or labour induced with dinoprostone. The prevalence of neurological or developmental abnormalities not attributable to events after delivery was the same overall in induced and spontaneous labours, but those abnormalities occurring after induction of labour all fol...

* Eleventh (11th) Hasi Majumdar Memorial Lecture, E.T.O., University of Calcutta, February 28, 2014 ** Director, Society for Applied Studies, CF-198, Salt Lake, Sector-I, Kolkata-700 064 My friends often asked me to write my own account on the development of ORT and its global implementation. I hesitated so long partly due to my preoccupation with my ongoing work and partly my desire not to off...

This study aimed to determine whether the addition of intracavitary brachytherapy (ICBT) to chemoradiotherapy (CRT) improves outcome in patients with cervical cancer and poor prognostic factors. Patients with stage IB to IIA cervical cancer who had undergone radical hysterectomy and pelvic lymphadenectomy between August 2008 and December 2014 were retrospectively registered in this study. All p...

PURPOSE Sarcomas have rarely been analyzed for telomerase, which is an RNA-dependent DNA polymerase to maintain telomeres and prevent telomere shortening. This study was undertaken to determine telomerase activity and the expression of the telomerase subunits human telomerase RNA (hTR) and telomerase reverse transcriptase (TERT) in soft tissue sarcomas. MATERIALS AND METHODS Twenty three sarc...

The development of tools for the prediction of nonrelapse mortality (NRM) after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) would offer a major guidance in the therapeutic decision. Recently, the Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation-Specific Comorbidity Index (HCT-CI) has been associated with increased NRM risk in several retrospective studies, but its clinical utility has never bee...

The purpose of this study was to examine the extent to which the Spanish POMS assesses the same factors as the original form of the questionnaire. We started from a version with 63 items, representing seven conceptual dimensions. This version was administered to a sample of 364 adult athletes. In the whole sample, exploratory factor analytic findings suggested a more parsimonious measurement mo...

OBJECTIVE Analysis of the in-hospital results, in progressively elderly patients who undergo primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in the first 24 hours of AMI. METHODS The patients were divided into three different age groups (60/69, 70/79, and > or =80 years) and were treated from 7/95 until 12/99. The primary success rate and the occurrence of major clinical events were analyzed...