Two bifunctional red AIE luminogens with efficient solid-state emission and good hole-transporting characteristics are reported. Efficient non-doped OLEDs are fabricated with high external quantum efficiencies of up to 3.9%. Bilayer EL devices using them as both EMLs and HTLs are fabricated with good performances.

In this paper we consider tree-level scattering in the minimal N = 4 topological string and show that a large class of N -point functions can be recast in terms of corresponding amplitudes in the (1, k) minimal bosonic string. This suggests a non-trivial relation between the minimal N = 4 topological strings, the (1, k) minimal bosonic strings and their corresponding ADE matrix models. This rel...

OBJECTIVES The clinical utility of extended regimen combined oral contraceptives (COCs) is increasingly being recognised. Our objective was to understand the attitudes of women and clinicians about the use of these regimens. We present the rationale for extended regimen COCs from a historical perspective, and trace their evolution and growing popularity in light of their clinical benefits. We c...

OBJECTIVES To determine the frequency of adverse effects related to the use of the tuberculosis treatment regimen designated Regimen I and the need for regimen alterations due to these effects. METHODS A retrospective analysis of 329 medical charts of patients who were treated with Regimen I and discharged after cure between March 2000 and April 2006 was carried out at the Tuberculosis Outpat...

Melioidosis (infection caused by Burkholderia pseudomallei) requires a prolonged course of oral antibiotics following initial intravenous therapy to reduce the risk of relapse after cessation of treatment. The current recommendation is a four-drug regimen (trimethoprim [TMP], sulfamethoxazole [SMX], doxycycline, and chloramphenicol) and a total treatment time of 12 to 20 weeks. Drug side effect...

CONTEXT Randomized trials have demonstrated that adding a drug to a single-agent or to a 2-agent regimen increased the tumor response rate in patients with advanced non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC), although its impact on survival remains controversial. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the clinical benefit of adding a drug to a single-agent or 2-agent chemotherapy regimen in terms of tumor response ra...

BACKGROUND Gastric carcinoma (GC) is one of the highest cancer-mortality diseases with a high incidence rate in Asia. For surgically unfit but medically fit patients, palliative chemotherapy is the main treatment. The chemotherapy regimen of docetaxel, cisplatin and 5-fluorouracil (DCF) has been used to treat the advanced stage or metastatic GC. It is necessary to compare effectiveness and toxi...

Reported are the results of a study to determine the efficacy and safety of liposomal amphotericin B (AmBisome) for treating visceral leishmaniasis (kala-azar) in several developing countries where the disease is endemic (Brazil, India, and Kenya). At each study site, sequential cohorts of 10 patients each were treated with AmBisome at a dose of 2 mg.kg-1.day-1 (2 MKD). The first cohort receive...

In this paper we consider tree-level scattering in the minimal N = 4 topological string and show that a large class of N -point functions can be recast in terms of corresponding amplitudes in the (1, k) minimal bosonic string. This suggests a non-trivial relation between the minimal N = 4 topological strings, the (1, k) minimal bosonic strings and their corresponding ADE matrix models. This rel...