Objective: To study the effects of stress among lady health visitors and housewives in regard to their serum total cholesterol, HDL cholesterol, and LDL cholesterol and triglyceride levels. Methods: The study was performed at the Institute of Biochemistry, University of Sindh, Jamshoro, Pakistan during the years 2003 to 2005. Seventy lady health visitor and housewives aged between 25-40 years p...

Introduced species have been linked to declines of native species through mechanisms including intraguild predation and exploitative competition. However, coexistence among species may be promoted by niche partitioning if native species can use resources that the invasive species cannot. Previous research has shown that some strains of the aphid Aphis craccivora are toxic to a competitively dom...

I take the first part of the title of my essay from a character in Mary Wroth’s Urania , dubbed the Lady of the Oddest Passion, who makes a fleeting appearance in book 3. 1 This lady, described as “most loving, most discreet” (452), is loved by, and in return loves equally, two men. All three were content with this situation for a time, but ultimately the Lady is pressed to choose between the s...

An 84-year-old female presented with a 2-day history of abdominal pain, vomiting, and constipation/obstipation. She had a prior history of abdomino-perineal resection for carcinoma of rectum 15 years ago. On examination, the abdomen was distended with increased bowel sounds. There was increased tenderness in the medial aspect of the thigh, no palpable inguinal mass, or any evidence of hernia. C...

A 20-year-old woman presented to the emergency department at 0730 hrs with a 3-hour history of sharp right-sided chest pain without radiation. She denied having shortness of breath, cough or fever. She had not sustained any trauma or undergone any surgical procedure recently. Although a smoker, she had no other significant past medical or family history. At the time, she was not on any prescrip...

To very many of you, Lady Norman is synonymous with the N.A.M.H. ^ will therefore come as a shock to know that at the next A.G.M. she will not be standing as Vice-Chairman of the Association and Chairman of the Executive Committee. We have known for some time that Lady Norman felt she had carried these responsibilities for long enough; in fact, since the Association was formed. Now we are glad ...

ES1-1 8:30 10:00 am Mm-wave LO Distribution Insights, Amr Fahim, Inphi Corporation Recent technology advances have enabled millimeter wave (mmWave) transceiver technology to be integrated into silicon in a cost-effective manner. One main challenge in enabling millimeter wave circuitry is local oscillator (LO), or clock signal, distribution throughout the millimeter wave transceivers. In this ta...