OBJECTIVE The short hook wire and suture marking system is a device for localization of small pulmonary nodules in thoracoscopic resection. We and other authors have shown the feasibility of the marking procedure. In this study, we reviewed our recent experience to examine the problems for resecting procedure using the device and determine if the system negatively impacts the survival rates for...

PURPOSE To report results of twin hook fixation for proximal femoral fractures in comparison to those fixed with the conventional lag screw. METHODS Between August 2005 and July 2006, 2 men and 15 women aged 74 to 94 (mean, 85) years with proximal femoral fractures underwent open reduction and internal fixation using the twin hook system. The tip-apex distance was compared with that in 20 pat...

The relationship between the apical hook and stem nutation in etiolated Alaska pea (Pisum sativum L. cv Alaska) seedlings was explored. The hook and maximum nutational displacement have the same plane of symmetry, and both are affected by light acting through phytochrome. However, the two processes do not appear to be obligatorily coupled. Light effects on nutation involve at least two componen...

OBJECTIVES Peptides derived from the C-terminal heptad repeat (CHR) of HIV-1 gp41 are potent fusion inhibitors. We have recently demonstrated that the unique M-T hook structure preceding the pocket-binding motif of CHR peptide-based inhibitors can greatly improve their antiviral activity. In this study, we applied the M-T hook structure to optimize sifuvirtide (SFT), a potent CHR-derived inhibi...

We extend a classical construction on symmetric functions, the superization process, to several combinatorial Hopf algebras, and obtain analogs of the hook-content formula for the (q, t)-specializations of various bases. Exploiting the dendriform structures yields in particular (q, t)-analogs of the Björner-Wachs q-hook-length formulas for binary trees, and similar formulas for plane trees.

•At high hCG levels in molar pregnancies, a "hook effect" can cause an artificially negative value.•Delay in diagnosis of a molar pregnancy due to the "hook effect" can lead to severe complications.•Suspicion of a molar pregnancy should be communicated so a diluted sample is used to quantify hCG.

We present a bijective proof of the hook length formula for rooted trees based on the ideas of the bijective proof of the hook length formula for standard tableaux by Novelli, Pak and Stoyanovskii [10]. In section 4 we present another bijection for the formula. MR Subject Classification: 05A05,05A15

— We find two new hook length formulas for binary trees. The particularity of our formulas is that the hook length h v appears as an exponent. Consider the set B (n) of all binary trees with n vertices. It is well-known that the cardinality of B (n) is equal to the Catalan number (see, e.g., [9, p.220]): (1) T ∈B(n) 1 = 1 n + 1 2n n. For each vertex v of a binary tree T ∈ B (n) the hook length ...