the res ults of vag i noplasty ~n t e ~ patients using the davidov t e chni que have be e n reported . nine pat ients had the procedure performed f or the i r s t time . one patient had a prev ~o us vaginoplasty , ( t e chni que ). pos t -operative mo rbi d ity wa s mi nima l a nd the l ong term r esults go' od. further advantages o f the technique have been discussed

OBJECTIVES To prospectively evaluate quantitative airway wall measurements of thin-section CT for the diagnosis of Bronchiolitis Obliterans Syndrome (BOS) following lung transplantation. MATERIALS AND METHODS In 141 CT examinations, bronchial wall thickness (WT), the wall area percentage (WA%) calculated as the ratio of the bronchial wall area and the total area (sum of bronchial wall area an...

Good neighbour, bad neighbour: song sparrows retaliate against aggressive rivals Çağlar Akçay *, William E. Wood , William A. Searcy , Christopher N. Templeton , S. Elizabeth Campbell , Michael D. Beecher a,b,d Department of Psychology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, U.S.A. Graduate Program in Neurobiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, U.S.A. Department of Biology, University ...

Let Wa be an irreducible affine Weyl group with W0 the associated Weyl group. The present paper is to study the second lowest two-sided cell Ωqr of Wa. Let nqr be the number of left cells of Wa in Ωqr. We conjecture that the equality nqr = 1 2 |W0| should always hold. When Wa is either e An−1, n > 2, or of rank 6 4, this equality can be verified by the existing data (see 0.3). Then the main res...

Observational studies have shown that allergic infants, irrespective of the type of diet, show various degrees of growth depression in the first year of life. We investigated whether the type of milk in the complementary feeding period (6-12 months of age) is associated with differences in the increase of standardized growth indices (weight-for-age, WA; length-for-age, LA; and weight-for-length...

PURPOSE The purpose was to increase job-specific knowledge about individual and work-related factors and their relationship with current and future work ability (WA). We studied cross-sectional relationships between mental demands, physical exertion during work, grip strength, musculoskeletal pain in the upper extremities and WA and the relationships between these variables and WA 11 years late...

The aim of this paper is to complete the characterization of the languages that are Boolean combinations (of a subset) of languages of the form wA∗, A∗w or L(w, r, t, n), where A is an alphabet, w ∈ A, r, t ≥ 0, n ≥ 1 and L(w, r, t, n) denotes the set of all words u in A such that the number of occurrences of the factor w in u is congruent to r threshold t mod n. For each class C of languages s...

School of Molecular Sciences, The Universi Crawley, WA 6009, Australia. E-mail: marck uwa.edu.au Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Resea Australia. E-mail: [email protected] Research School of Chemistry, Australian N Australia ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Bio 35 Stirling Hwy, Crawley, WA 6009, Austral School of Anatomy, Physiology and Hum Australia, 35 Stirling Hwy, Crawley,...

Hepatic lipase activity (HLA) is a determinant of HDL levels, and a polymorphism in the hepatic lipase gene (LIPC) promoter (C-514T) has been hypothesized to account for higher HDL in blacks and Japanese compared with whites. To determine whether the polymorphism contributes to ethnic differences in HDL, we compared LIPC allele frequencies and HLA in Japanese American (JA; n = 84), black Americ...

Let A = {as(mod ns)}s=0 be a system of residue classes. With the help of cyclotomic fields we obtain a theorem which unifies several previously known results related to the covering multiplicity of A. In particular, we show that if every integer lies in more than m0 = b ∑k s=1 1/nsc members of A, then for any a = 0, 1, 2, . . . there are at least ( m0 ba/n0c ) subsets I of {1, . . . , k} with ∑...