Some large rectangular matrices used in animal breeding are presented. We describe how to generate these matrices from the data supplied by animal breeders. The matrices are very sparse (3 nonzeros per row) and range between 26 20 and 968 652 582 694.

Mathematical demography has flowered in many different gardens during the past twenty years. Several reviews of mathematical demograph are available: Keyfitz (1 968), Feishtinger (1 971), Pollard (1 973), Ludwig 8978). Keiding (1975), Menken (1977), Smith and Keyfitz (1977), Kurtz (1981), and Cohen (1984). This necessarily brief review deals only with stochastic models for population projection...

In 2004, we tested all patients with newly diagnosed tuberculosis (TB) for HIV in Kiev City. The results were compared to information from medical records of 2002, when co-infection prevalence was 6.3%. Of 968 TB patients, 98 (10.1%) were HIV infected. TB-HIV co-infection is increasing, especially in injecting drug users.

We compared a fluorescein-conjugated monoclonal antibody (FA) direct specimen test (MicroTrak; Syva Co., Palo Alto, Calif.) with culture (TC) in McCoy cells (vials, with blind passage and iodine staining of inclusions) for diagnosis of Chlamydia trachomatis infection in the cervix. Duplicate specimens were collected from 1,230 women, but for 262 of these subjects, both results were unavailable ...

1. Abstract 2. Introduction 3. Methods 3.1. Animals 3.2. Urine Collection 3.3. Blood collection and kidneys removal 3.4. Determination of plasma and intra-renal ANG II 3.4.1. Extraction of ANG peptides by Solid Phase Extraction Chromatography (SPEC) 3.4.2. Quantification of ANG II levels by radioimmunoassay 3.5. Measurement of functional parameters 3.6. Isolation of glomeruli 3.6.1. Preparation...

Pseudomonas aeruginosa (P. aeruginosa) is a classic opportunistic pathogen with innate resistance to many antibiotics and disinfectants. It is found in moist environment and disinfectant solution due to its ability to utilize different organic compounds and survive in nutrient deficient conditions. P. International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences ISSN: 2319-7706 Volume 4 Nu...

At least since Friedman's (1968) American Economic Association Presidential address, macro and labor economists have recognized that a certain level of unemployment is a "natural" consequence of dynamic friction that accompanies the process by which workers are allocated and reallocated among employment opportunities. Friedman (1 968) summarizes his famous definition of the natural rate as foll...

Address for correspondence: Maria Weryńska-Kalemba MD, PhD, Chair and Clinical Department of Internal Diseases, Dermatology and Allergology, Medical University of Silesia, 10 M. Skłodowskiej-Curie St, 41-800 Zabrze, Poland, phone: +48 664 968 021, fax: +48 32 271 31 65, e-mail: [email protected] Received: 9.03.2015, accepted: 11.05.2015. A case of lipoatrophic panniculitis in a 2-year-ol...

A novel antitumor bicyclic depsipeptide, FR901228, was isolated from a broth culture of Chromobacteriumviolaceum No. 968 as colorless prisms and the molecular formula was determined as C24H36N4O6S2. This antibiotic reverted the transformed morphology of a Ha-ras transformant to normal, and exhibited prominent antitumor activities against murine and humantumor cell lines both in vitro and in viv...