For the first time we tried to examine the basic parameters of innate immunity in beavers for developing the new methods of prevention against infectious diseases in different reintroduction and translocation programmes in Poland. The aim of the present study was to determine the selected innate immunity parameters in Eurasian beavers living in natural conditions. The analyses of the results sh...

There is a need for a short instrument to assess the multiple areas of dysfunction as well as drinking dyscontrol in alcoholics. The Brief Addiction Rating Scale (BARS), covering 10 areas of functioning has been developed to meet this need. This report describes the rationale and development of this new scale. A high interrater reliability (0.9) on all the items of the scale and the ease of adm...

AIM To present, through a thorough literature research, current and older scientific efforts to investigate the putative association between Alzheimer's disease (AD) and glaucoma, especially primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG). METHODS We included in our review article epidemiological, experimental and clinical laboratory studies. RESULTS While many authors support the existence of a strong ...

Figure 1: A line arrangement in the plane The study of configurations of lines in the plane or planes in space has a relatively short history. Some say the field arose from the cheese cutting problem: what is the maximum number of pieces one can produce from a fixed number of cuts? Others say that it arose through the history of braid groups: the pure braid group on n strands turns out to be th...

This short position paper proposes a task-ontological approach to geovisualization. Two recently identified challenges in geovisualization research justify such an endeavor, particularly for the webenabled domain: (1) the need for developing task-driven tools to facilitate problem solving and knowledge sharing amongst heterogeneous user communities, and (2) the lack of sound evaluation procedur...

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