A 4-year-old girl is presented suffering from severe hypertension due to hemolyticu~emic syndrome. Injection of reserpine and hydralazine was ineffective. Captopril, an oral angiotensin I-converting enzyme inhibitor, showed the dramatic hypotensive effect in our patient.

A new method for color reduction in a digital image is proposed, which is based on the development of a new neural network classifier and on a new method for Estimation of the Most Important Classes (EMIC). The proposed neural network combines the features of the well-known Growing Neural Gas (GNG) and the Kohonen Self-Organized Feature Map (KSOFM) neural networks. We call the new neural networ...

We present a model study that investigates to what extent it is possible to introduce ENSO variability to an Earth system Model of Intermediate Complexity (EMIC). The Zebiak–Cane ENSO model is dynamically coupled to the EMIC CLIMBER-3a, which by itself exhibits no interannual or multidecadal variability. ENSO variability is introduced to CLIMBER-3a by adding ENSO-related sea surface temperature...

The link between agent-based models and social research is a foundational concern of this journal. In this article, the anthropological concept of 'emic' or 'insider's view' is used to foreground the value of learning what differences make a difference to actual human agents before building a model of those agents and their world. The author's Netlogo model of the epidemiology of illicit drug u...

A critical appraisal of the current strategies for the synthesis of enantiopure drugs is presented, along with a systematic background for the computational design of stereoselective porous polymers. These materials aim to achieve the enantiomeric excess of any chiral drug, avoiding the racemic separation. Particular emphasis is given to link statistical mechanics methods to the description of ...

In worldwide organizations, the share of collaborative work is increasing steadily and, in the current global economy, the collaborative work is international in nature. With the availability and increased use of information and communication technologies most of the international collaborative work is electronic-mediated. This exploratory empirical research is an attempt to identify some facto...

[1] Observations of detached subauroral proton arcs by the FUV instrument on the IMAGE spacecraft have been recently reported and shown to be produced by ring current ions precipitating in the afternoon local time sector during geomagnetically disturbed periods. Data from June 18, 2001 show a direct link between a subauroral proton arc and a global observation of a plasmaspheric plume by the IM...

Content analysis on nurses’ perception about the nature of occupational stress was performed in this study to identify emic and etic experiences of occupational stress. Nurses from Hungary, Israel, Italy, U.K., and the U.S., gave their responses in writing to the question: ‘‘What causes you the most stress or anxiety on your job?’’ in the dominant tongue of their country. Results indicate both ...

BACKGROUND Cross-cultural research to examine the cultural validity of diagnostic categories and underlying concepts requires methods that integrate epidemiological and anthropological frameworks. METHOD The Explanatory Model Interview Catalogue (EMIC) and Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-III-R (SCID) were used to study 80 psychiatric out-patients with depressive neurosis at a clinic in ...