African horse sickness (AHS) is a severe, often fatal, arbovirus infection of horses, transmitted by Culicoides spp. midges. AHS occurs in most of sub-Saharan Africa and is a significant impediment to export of live horses from infected countries, such as South Africa. A stochastic risk model was developed to estimate the probability of exporting an undetected AHS-infected horse through a vecto...

Voluminously epidemiological studies show that the relationships exist between the air pollution and human health and cancer. Aromatic hydrocarbons (AHs) in air form a large class of organic pollutants, which are widely in environment and many of them are known to be carcinogenic and/or mutagenic and contribute to ambient air pollution. In the past decades, bioassays mainly have been used to ev...

Alien hand syndrome (AHS) is characterized by involuntary and autonomous activity of the affected limbs, and consists of the frontal, callosal and posterior AHS variants. The callosal subtype, resulting from damage to the corpus callosum, frequently features intermanual conflict. However, infarction of the corpus callosum is rare due to abundant blood supply. The present study reported a case o...

OBJECTIVE To illustrate the clinical features, laboratory findings, and management of anticonvulsant hypersensitivity syndrome (AHS), emphasizing the importance of recognizing its multiple clinical components and raising awareness of the cross-sensitivity among different anticonvulsants. CLINICAL PRESENTATION AND INTERVENTION Two cases of AHS due to carbamazepine and a combination of sodium v...

Valproic acid (VPA) is an antiepileptic medication used in the treatment of bipolar disorder. Its toxicity profile is characterized by a very rare but well-documented complication-hepatotoxicity. The risk of acute hypersensitivity syndrome (AHS) caused by VPA is less well known. In the vast majority of reported cases of AHS, the syndrome is the result of aromatic anticonvulsants (AAs), such as ...

We observe two deficiencies of current query processing and scheduling techniques for sensor networks: (1) A query execution plan does not adapt to the hardware characteristics of sensing devices; and (2) the data communication schedule of each node is not adapt to the query workload. Both cause the time and energy waste problem in query processing. To address this problem, we propose an adapti...

Antiepileptic hypersensitivity syndrome (AHS) is a potentially life-threatening syndrome, especially in pediatric cases. Drug rash with eosinophilia and systemic symptoms (DRESS) syndrome reflects a serious hypersensitivity reaction to drugs. We report here two children with AHS due to phenytoin. Both cases were under treatment with phenytoin: the first case was a seven-year-old boy who was ref...

Abstract. Aromatic hydrocarbons (AHs) contribute significantly to ozone and secondary organic aerosol (SOA) formation in the atmosphere, but their mechanisms are still unclear. Herein, photochemical oxidation of nine AHs was investigated a chamber. Only small amount produced from direct AHs, while lower number AH substituents resulted higher concentrated ozone. Addition NOx increased SOA produc...

The authors conducted a meta-analysis of the literature on 2,4-D and NHL. Scientific meta-analyses involve examining and weighing the results of multiple studies together, because collectively those studies can tell us things they cannot tell us individually. This is the first meta-analysis conducted on 2,4-D and NHL to include data from the Agricultural Health Study (AHS). The AHS is an ongoin...

Adaptive Hypermedia Systems (AHS) have long been concentrating on adaptive guidance of links between domain concepts. In this paper we first study parallels between navigation and linking in hypertext on the one hand and information searching or querying on the other hand. We show that to a large extent linking and searching can be modeled in the same way. Secondly we present a transition towar...