No attempt was made to extirpate the cyst, because of its intimate relationship with important structures and the extremely feeble condition of the patient. The margins being stitched on to the abdominal incision, the tumour was simply drained. There was no marked change in the patient's condition. He continued to vomit and to hiccup, and his pulse was thready as before. Rectal alimentation was...

A common form of quorum sensing in gram-positive bacteria is mediated by peptides that act as phosphatase regulators (Phr) of receptor aspartyl phosphatases (Raps). In Bacillus subtilis, several Phr signals are integrated in sporulation phosphorelay signal transduction. We theoretically demonstrate that the phosphorelay can act as a computational machine performing a sensitive division operatio...

A Rede de Atenção Psicossocial (RAPS) é uma rede saúde temática, que envolve o cuidado, visando assegurar às pessoas com sofrimento mental e necessidades decorrentes do uso drogas, acesso a um atendimento integral, contínuo vinculação à rede. pesquisa tem por objetivo investigar como as ações serviços base territorial comunitária voltada para mental, participação da RAPS, mais especificamente d...

Abstract This paper focuses on a heterogeneous redundancy allocation problem (RAP) for multi-state series-parallel systems subject to probabilistic common-cause failure and proposes novel discrete bat algorithm solve it. Although abundant research studies have been published solving RAPs, few of them studied common cause failure, which motivates this paper. Due the insufficient data components,...

Abstract The present study aims at analyzing the regionalization of services carried out by Psychosocial Care Network (RAPS in Portuguese) state Minas Gerais (MG) Brazil, yielding indicators that may enhance SUS strategic management towards strengthening psychosocial care provided state. It is a cross-sectional study, based on data collected May 2019 from government websites, considering state’...

Centre de Référence de Médecine et de Réanimation Néonatale de l’Hôpital d’Enfants de Rabat, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Ibn Sina, Avenue Ibn Rochd, Agdal, Rabat, Maroc, Unité Mixte de Recherche en Nutrition et Alimentation URAC 39, Université Ibn Tofail-CNESTEN, RDC-Nutrition AFRA/AIEA, Maroc, Equipe de Recherche en Santé et Nutrition du Couple Mère-Enfant, Faculté de Médecine et de Pharm...

Eithe low birthweight infants were studied for their metabolic and hormonal responses to intravenous alimentation when the caloric input was varied. The study was made during three consecutive 12-hour periods, when solutions of glucose, glucose and amino-acids, and glucose and amino-acid and lipids were successively infused. Hypertonic glucose led to a fall in plasma free fatty acids and amino-...