1School of Natural Sciences, Division of Psychology, University of Stirling, Stirling, FK9 4LA, Scotland 2CAPP: Centro de Administracao e Politicas Publicas and Instituto Superior de Ciencias Sociais e Políticas da Universidade Tecnica de Lisboa, Rua Almerindo Lessa, Polo Universitario do Alto da Ajuda, 1349-055 Lisboa, Portugal 3CRIA Centre for the Research in Anthropology and Departament of A...

Background: The Canadian Resident Matching Services (CaRMS) collects comprehensive data on residency applicants. However, match outcomes by age were not reported. It was unclear whether older applicants found it more difficult to the specialties of their choice, i.e. does influence match? We ask in particular, affect neurology Methods: In response written request, CaRMS provided pre-pandemic fo...

The α-stable family of distributions constitutes a generalization of the Gaussian distribution, allowing for asymmetry and thicker tails. Its many useful properties, including a central limit theorem, are especially appreciated in the financial field. However, estimation difficulties have up to now hindered its diffusion among practitioners. In this paper we propose an indirect estimation appro...

Correspondence: Francesco Di Costanzo Direttore S.C. di Oncologia Medica, Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria Careggi, Florence, italy Tel +39 055 7949648 Fax +39 055 7948394 email [email protected]; [email protected] Abstract: Taxanes are chemotherapeutic agents with a large spectrum of antitumor activity when used as monotherapy or in combination regimens. Paclitaxel ...

Content-based approaches to music retrieval are of great relevance as they do not require any kind of manually generated annotations. In this paper, we introduce the concept of structure fingerprints, which are compact descriptors of the musical structure of an audio recording. Given a recorded music performance, structure fingerprints facilitate the retrieval of other performances sharing the ...

Cyclo-oxygenase 2 (COX2) inhibiting drugs were subjected to comparative quantitative structure activity relationship (QSAR) analysis with an attempt to derive and to understand the relationship between the biological activity and molecular descriptors by multiple regression analysis. The different drugs that inhibit cyclo-oxygenase 2 enzyme were compared instead of subjecting one drug and its d...

1. German Society for Gynecology and Obstetrics 2. Study Group for Urogynecology and Plastic Pelvic Floor Reconstruction of the German Society for Gynecology and Obstetrics 3. Study Group for Urogynecology and Reconstructive Pelvic Floor Surgery, Austria 4. Study Group for Urogynecology and Reconstructive Pelvic Floor Surgery, Switzerland 5. Surgical Study Group for Coloproctology 6. Profession...

Tumor necrosis factor (TNF) of hepatic origin is thought to play a pivotal role early in the genesis of the septic shock syndrome, regardless of microbial etiology. To determine if production of TNF by Kupffer cells varies with microbial taxonomic class, we measured TNF secretory responses in primary cultures of rat Kupffer cells to numerically equivalent gram-negative bacterial or fungal phago...

Correspondence: edoardo Mannucci Diabetologia Ponte Nuovo, via delle Oblate, 4-50141 Firenze, italy Tel +39 055 794 9742 Fax +39 055 794 9742 email [email protected] Abstract: Liraglutide is a once-daily glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) receptor agonist, approved for use as a treatment of type 2 diabetes. Like other drugs of the same class, liraglutide stimulates insulin secretion in a g...

Content-based approaches to music retrieval are of great relevance as they do not require any kind of manually generated annotations. In this paper, we introduce the concept of structure fingerprints, which are compact descriptors of the musical structure of an audio recording. Given a recorded music performance, structure fingerprints facilitate the retrieval of other performances sharing the ...