We present the CSF Common Semantic Features method for metaphor detection. This method has two distinguishing characteristics: it is cross-lingual and it does not rely on the availability of extensive manually-compiled lexical resources in target languages other than English. A metaphor detecting classifier is trained on English samples and then applied to the target language. The method includ...

in this study demographic, clinical, paraclinical, microbiological, and therapeutic features of patients with community-acquired acute bacterial meningitis admitted to a referral center for infectious diseases in iran, have been evaluated. medical records of adult (> 18 years) individuals with confirmed diagnosis of community-acquired bacterial meningitis during a 4-year period were retrospecti...

Disturbed sleep during affective episodes may impact levels of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF)-amyloid-beta (Aβ)42 and other biomarkers neurodegeneration in patients with bipolar disorder (BD). The study aimed to investigate the correlations between for Alzheimer's disease (AD) BD healthy controls (HC). We present a prospective, longitudinal case-control euthymic (N = 86) HC 44). All participants wer...

Mice deficient in granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) and macrophage colony-stimulating factor (M-CSF, CSF-1) were generated by interbreeding GM-CSF-deficient mice generated by gene targeting (genotype GM-/-) with M-CSF-deficient osteopetrotic mice (genotype M-/-, op/op). Mice deficient in both GM-CSF and M-CSF (genotype GM-/-M-/-) are viable and have coexistent features c...

BACKGROUND Abnormal intrathecal synthesis of IgG, reflected by cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) oligoclonal IgG bands (OBs) and increased IgG index, is much less frequently observed in Japanese multiple sclerosis (MS) cohorts compared with Western cohorts. We aimed to clarify whether genetic and common infectious backgrounds influence CSF IgG abnormality in Japanese MS patients. METHODOLOGY We analy...

Increased signal intensity in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) on magnetic resonance imaging due to the presence of gadolinium is rarely observed, but has been seen in patients with brain or spinal pathology or underlying renal impairment. We report this phenomenon in a 66-year-old woman with diabetic nephropathy and discuss the possible pathogenesis of the scan findings. Recognition of this unusu...

Three patients with antibiotic induced meningitis, one following penicillin with seven episodes, are reported on--the first well documented description of penicillin induced meningitis. In this patient episodes of headache and nuchal rigidity appeared with and without CSF pleocytosis. Two patients had a total of five episodes of antibiotic induced meningitis after trimethoprim-sulphamethoxazole...

In this paper we demonstrate that maturing neoplastic cells from patients with chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) constitutively produce G-CSF and are also receptive for this molecule. G-CSF functions as an autocrine growth factor in stable phase CML, and thus is responsible for divisions of maturing leukemic cells leading to an expansion of the compartment of mature cells. This observation is ...