www.chestpubs.org radiographs in mechanically ventilated adults: a multicentre, cluster-randomised, two-period crossover study . Lancet . 2009 ; 374 ( 9702 ): 1687 1693 . 6 . Ball CG , Kirkpatrick AW , Fox DL , et al . Are occult pneumothoraces truly occult or simply missed? J Trauma . 2006 ; 60 ( 2 ): 294 298 . 7 . Lichtenstein DA , Menu Y . A bedside ultrasound sign ruling out pneumothorax in...

The tyrosine kinase activity of insulin receptor isolated from the skeletal muscle of NIDDM patients has previously been found to be decreased compared with the activity of receptor from nondiabetic subjects but the mechanism underlying this defect is unknown. Phosphorylation of receptor serine/threonine residues has been proposed to exert an inhibitory influence on receptor tyrosine kinase act...

"Plague added the finishing touches to the great misery of Bristol; its inhabitants resembled prisoners more than citizens, being so low with taxation, so poor in habit, and so dejected in countenance." (Skeete 1645, quoted Latimer) En^6,? hundred years ago the final and most dramatic epidemic of the plague struck ann andJ an^ t^le terrible visitation at Marseilles in 1720, epidemic plague disB...

prof. mohammad-taqi danesh-pajouh was born in 1290/1911. after his primary education in his birth-place, amol, he continued his education and studied clerical topics in qom. then he entered the faculty of law at tehran university and took his bachelor's degree in 1320/1941. he began his career as a librarian in the library of above mentioned faculty, and a few years later, he was appointed...

1 Projet AxIS, INRIA-Rocquencourt, Domaine de Voluceau, Rocquencourt, B.P. 105, F-78153 Le Chesnay Cedex, France, [email protected]. 2 Helsinki University of Technology – Lab. Computer and Information Science, Neural Networks Research Centre, P.O. Box 5400, FIN-02015 HUT, Finland, [email protected] 3 Université catholique de Louvain – Machine Learning Group, CESAME, 4 av. G. Lemaître, B-1348...

Volatile halocarbons released by 12 Falkenbergia phase isolates of Asparagopsis taxiformis and Asparagopsis armata collected from widely scattered geographical locations were identified using a purge and trap technique and gas chromatography/mass spectrometry. Production of the compounds under normal and high irradiance was quantified where possible. Bromoform (CHBr3), dibromomethane (CH2Br2), ...

OBJECTIVE To describe the behavior of mortality in Mexico through four indicators from 1990 to 2012. MATERIAL AND METHODS The official mortality and population records of Mexico were used. RESULTS An advance was achieved for children under five years of age, with a decrease in mortality, although there was an increase in the years of potential life lost (YPLL) from 2008 for this age group. ...