malaria has recently been resurged in some parts of iran which is bordered with armenia, naxcivan and turkey. an attempt was made to asses the current status of insecticide resistance in the main malaria vector , an.sacharovi. adult engorged mosquitoes were collected from dwellings during the seasonal activity of the vector, which is synchronized in summer 2001. mosquitoes were subjected to the...

the present study surveys the effect of bank-specific, industry-specific and macroeconomic conditions on bank performance to examine the structure-conduct-performance (scp) hypothesis in iranian banking industry. to achieve this goal, we drew upon the panel data technique to analyze the data of eleven public and private iranian banks during 2001-2006. firstly, productivity was calculated by usi...

SIR, In their interesting abstract on platelets and rheumatoid arthritis' Farr et al. call attention to the frequent presence of an inflammation-related thrombocytosis in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). They point out that such a finding is not specific of RA. In fact they found thrombocytosis related to disease activity also in patients affected with Crohn's disease. We reached the same conclusions...

Previous work by Verhelst describing an equivalent mathematical argument for analysing binary matrices, but with different implementation and reasoning, was inadvertently omitted from the reference list of this Article and should have been cited in instances where multiple swap methods were mentioned. For example, in the Introduction section, Verhelst should have been cited as follows: ‘Thus, d...

We present an overview of recent research at IDIAP on speech & face based biometric authentication. This paper covers usercustomised passwords, adaptation techniques, confidence measures (for use in fusion of audio & visual scores), face verification in difficult image conditions, as well as other related research issues. We also overview the open source Torch library, which has aided in the im...

Nutmeg ingestion in large amounts can cause toxic symptoms such as hallucinations, tachycardia and anticholinergic effects. We describe a case of a 37-year-old woman who experienced an unintentional autointoxication of nutmeg. It is likely that nutmeg intoxication is underreported. We suggest to specifically think of nutmeg ingestion in case of symptoms as mentioned above.

The rich structure of the set of dyadic PFW’s has been presented in [6]. As mentioned in [6, Remark 3.7], the subclass of the so called non-W0-frames with various levels of W0-linear independence (denoted by P0,+ in [6]) needs extra attention. The recent observation in [4] on W0-Schauder bases enables us to properly restructure this subclass (P0,+) and to show that it contains a wealth of examp...

We can distinguish three basic properties of information security, which should be implemented in nearly all IT systems: confidentiality, integrity and availability. Confidentiality means to protect the information against unauthorized access. Integrity is mentioned as a warranty of authenticity of information; it is also connected with protection against unauthorized interference. Availability...