BACKGROUND AND RATIONALE Insulin resistance (IR), adipocytokines, oxidative stress and hepatic apoptosis play a pathogenetic role in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). AIMS The evaluation of specific adipocytokines and markers of IR, oxidative stress and apoptosis in NAFLD patients; the introduction of a combined non-invasive index for nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH). MATERIAL AN...

We have received the twenty-ninth report of this useful Society, which continues to do its good work with undiminished vigour. The capital of the Society now amounts to ?14,400. The income for the year was ?1,538-16-2. ?157-2 were distributed by anticipation, and ?933-11-8 available for distribution at the annual meeting, making a whole of ?1,090-13-8 dispensed in chai-itabl? grants according t...

Boo-Chai (1966) reported a case of successful closure of a cleft lip at approximately 390 A.D. in China, although the surgeon's name is not mentioned. Yperman (1295-1351) was a Flemish surgeon who appears to have written the first fully documented description of cleft lip and its surgical repair. He closed the freshened borders of the cleft lip with a triangular needle armed with a twisted wax ...

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We generalize the construction of dual BGG complexes in Faltings–Chai and Mokrane–Tilouine–Polo (from the case of Siegel modular varieties) to all smooth integral models of PEL-type Shimura varieties.

Received 2/25/2002; revised 3/22/2002; accepted 4/4/2002. For correspondence or reprints contact: Teng-Yao Yang, M.D., Department of Cardiology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Chai-Yi; 6 Section West, Chai-Pu Road, Pu-Tz City, Chai-Yi 613, Taiwan, R.O.C. Tel: (886)5-3621000 ext. 2176, Email: [email protected] We reported a case of infective endocarditis involving the mitral valve and complica...

The tiny encryption algorithm (TEA) was developed by Wheeler and Needham as a simple computer program for encryption. This paper is the first design-space exploration for hardware implementations of the extended tiny encryption algorithm. It presents efficient implementations of XTEA on FPGAs and ASICs for ultra-low power applications such as RFID tags and wireless sensor nodes as well as fully...

This paper explores a method, first proposed by Wei and Chai [1], for estimating 3D human pose from several frames of uncalibrated 2D point correspondences containing projected body joint locations. In their work Wei and Chai boldly claimed that, through the introduction of rigid constraints to the torso and hip, camera scales, bone lengths and absolute depths could be estimated from a finite n...

1. Low KH, Chai GB, Lim TM, Sue SC. Comparisons of experimental and theoretical frequencies for rectangular plates with various boundary conditions added masses. International Journal Mechanical Sciences. 1998;40(11), 1119-1131. Google Scholar

or as the ends of a boiv are drawn together." They have a legend that it visits the country every thirty years. The epidemic arrived in Bhamo in June last, having travelled up the Irrawaddy Yalley starting in Rangoon in May and visiting Mandalay during the early part of June. It is interesting to note this following of the important trade route. It is not unlikely that the epidemic originated f...