We undertake the study of bivariate Horn systems for generic parameters. We prove that these hypergeometric systems are regular holonomic, and we provide an explicit formula for their holonomic rank as well as bases of their spaces of complex holomorphic solutions. We also obtain analogous results for the generalized hypergeometric systems arising from lattices of any rank.

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Plant aerial development is well known to be affected by day length in terms of the timing and developmental stage of floral transition. Arabidopsis thaliana is a 'long day' plant in which the time to flower is delayed by short days and leaf number is increased. The aim of the work presented here was to determine the effects of different day lengths on individual leaf area e...

BACKGROUND Optimising the fluid resuscitation of patients with severe malaria is a simple and potentially cost-effective intervention. Current WHO guidelines recommend central venous pressure (CVP) guided, crystalloid based, resuscitation in adults. METHODS Prospectively collected haemodynamic data from intervention trials in Vietnamese adults with severe malaria were analysed retrospectively...

Stewart in 1983 (Can J Physiol Pharmacol 1983: 61: 1444) reintroduced plasma buffer base under the name "strong ion difference" (SID). Buffer base was originally introduced by Singer and Hastings in 1948 (Medicine (Baltimore) 1948: 27: 223). Plasma buffer base, which is practically equal to the sum of bicarbonate and albuminate anions, may be increased due to an excess of base or due to an incr...

Metabolic acidosis is common in babies fed cows' milk-based formulae. Therefore the effects of adding alkaline salts (sodium and potassium citrate) to a demineralised whey formula were studied in vitro and in 26 low birthweight babies fed on the formula or formula plus citrate. The alkali altered the pH and titratable acidity to a value nearer human milk but it increased the buffering capacity ...

JACKSON, DONALD C., AND HELENE SILVERBLATT. Respiration and acid-base status of turtles following experimental dives. Am. J. Physiol. 226(4) : 903-909. 1974.-Freshwater turtles Pseudemys scripta elegans were subjected to experimental dives lasting 24 h at 24°C. Respiratory minute volume and oxygen consumption were measured prior to and for 2-5 h following the dives. Arterial blood samples were ...

Optimal growth is only possible in a well-balanced "inner milieu". Premature infants are especially vulnerable for disturbances of acid-base metabolism with a predisposition to metabolic acidosis due to a transient disproportion between age-related low renal capacity for net acid excretion (NAE) and an unphysiologically high actual renal NAE on nutrition with standard formulas. During a 50 mont...

This volume is the publication of the proceedings of the symposium held in May of 1971. Most of the chapters are relatively brief contributions, often by major authorities. The topics discussed include the interaction between hemoglobin and oxygen, carbon dioxide, the red cell membrane, carbonic anhydrase, the regulation of intermediary metabolism of the red cell and of the oxygen affinity of h...