Water and sediment samples have been collected from five different stations, located along Djendjen River between February and June, 2016 so that the concentrations of Cd, Ni, Zn, and Cu could be determined. The extent of the sediment pollution has been assessed, using the multiple pollution indices, namely Contamination Factor (CF), Pollution Load Index (PLI), and the geoaccumulation index (Ig...

We study the non-negativity conjecture of the complete cd-index of a Bruhat interval as defined by Billera and Brenti. For each cd-monomial M we construct a set of paths, such that if a “flip condition” is satisfied, then the number of these paths is the coefficient of the monomial M in the complete cd-index. When the monomial contains at most one d, then the condition follows from Dyer’s proof...

We give a convolution formula for cd-index coefficients. The convolution formula, together with the proof by Davis and Okun of the CharneyDavis Conjecture in dimension 3, imply that certain cd-coefficients are nonnegative for all Gorenstein* posets. Additional coefficients are shown to be non-negative by interpreting them in terms of the top homology of certain Cohen-Macaulay complexes. In part...

OBJECTIVES In colorectal cancer, to describe the cytophotometric expression of the CD-34 and Factor VIII; to evaluate the degree of correlation between them; and to compare the CD-34 and Factor VIII expressions in relationship to label index and optical density. METHODS Seventeen cases of colorectal adenocarcinoma recovered from paraffin-embedded archival tissue and confirmed by hematoxilin-e...

BACKGROUND To assess the impact of a continuous measure of adherence with infliximab maintenance treatment in Crohn's disease (CD) during the first year of treatment on CD-related health care utilization, CD-related hospitalizations, inpatient costs, and length of hospital stay. PATIENTS AND METHODS A retrospective claims analysis using the IMS LifeLink Health Plan Claims Database (September ...

OBJECTIVE To describe the nutritional status in patients with screen-detected celiac disease (CD). METHODS Nutritional status was assessed by serum tests and anthropometric measures in 26 subjects (16 to 25 years of age) with biopsy-proven CD and 29 healthy control subjects (16 to 21 years of age) with negative tissue transglutaminase antibodies (16 to 22 years of age); all the subjects were ...

In a group of 117 patients with multiple myeloma (MM) examined at the time of diagnosis, i.e. excluding previous chemotherapy, we analysed the levels of propidium-iodide (proliferative) - PC-PI/CD(138) and annexin-V (apoptotic) - PC-AI/CD(138) indices of myeloma plasmocytes using the method of flow-cytometry to determine their relationship to prognosis. It was revealed that patients with high v...

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A gluten-free diet (GFD) is the treatment for celiac disease (CD), but due to its complexity, dietitian referral is uniformly recommended. We surveyed patients with CD to determine if dietitian use is associated with quality of life, symptom severity, or GFD adherence. The survey utilized three validated CD-specific instruments: the CD quality of life (CD-QOL), CD symptom index (CSI) and CD adh...