AIMS To evaluate the diagnostic usefulness of serial serum C-reactive protein determinations in monitoring the outcome of infective endocarditis (IE). METHODS AND RESULTS C-reactive protein, erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR), and white blood cell count (WBC) were measured from admission until week 10 in 129 patients with 134 episodes of IE. Need for cardiac surgery and final outcome were a...

T he evaluation of infective endocarditis (IE), a complex and diagnostically difficult disease, has benefited dramatically from the developments in noninvasive cardiology, particularly in echocardiography. In the preantibiotic era, the disease progressed inexorably until death, with the diagnosis often confirmed at autopsy. With the development ofmodern antibiotic therapy and cardiothoracic sur...

1.2 Machine failure A system is composed of 5 components, each of which is either working or broken. Consider an experiment that consists of observing the status of each component, and let the outcome of the experiment be given by the vector (x1, x2, x3, x4, x5), where xi = 1 if component i works and 0 if component i is broken. 1. How many outcomes are in the sample space of this experiment? 2....

Neoplastic transformation is a complex process that results from multiple changes in gene activities. Probably most of these are mutational, i.e. alterations in the genomic structure of DNA, but others may be due to adaptive changes wherein genes are expressed that are inappropriate to a stage of development or differentiation. In this commentary neoplastic development is discussed in the conte...

Glutamine (GLN) has many types of biological activity in rats, including anti-inflammatory, antioxidative stress, and anti-apoptosis effects. However, little is known about the effects GLN on bovine mammary epithelial cells (BMEC). γ-d-Glutamyl-meso-diaminopimelic acid (iE-DAP) a cell wall peptidoglycan component gram-negative bacteria that can be recognized by intracellular receptor nucleotide...

le mouvement transversal de la locomotive ou des wagons , appele ie lacet, provient de deux causes principales: -la conicite des bandages -les irregularites de la voie dans ie plan horizontal. on se propose ici d'etudier la premiere cause , ce qui nous conduit a une equation differentielle non lineaire du deuxieme ordre. • l'equation en question est etudiee dans plusieurs cas difftten...

We design and release BONIE, the first open numerical relation extractor, for extracting Open IE tuples where one of the arguments is a number or a quantity-unit phrase. BONIE uses bootstrapping to learn the specific dependency patterns that express numerical relations in a sentence. BONIE’s novelty lies in task-specific customizations, such as inferring implicit relations, which are clear due ...

Municipal wastewater is a very unique pool full of energy and useful substances. Though the innovative integrated anaerobic membrane bioreactor reverse osmosis-ion exchange (AnMBR-RO-IE) process can produce high-grade reclaimed water with high efficiency, phosphorus resources recovery in WWTPs has been rarely reported thus far. This study evaluated feasibility batch reactor (PRBR) as an approac...

JEM © The Rockefeller University Press $30.00 Vol. 205, No. 4, April 14, 2008 967-979 www.jem.org/cgi/doi/ 967 10.1084/jem.20072051 Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic disease aff ecting the peripheral joints in which abnormalities in the synovium precipitate a destructive process that often leads to cartilage and bone erosion. The autoimmune nature of this disease has been defi ned, in part...

Even though the European Union has long promoted multilingualism, it proven difficult to achieve widespread multilingual language competence beyond English through formal education in Europe. In Sweden, high dropout rates have been recorded second foreign (SFL) classes, and French is currently most vulnerable among major SFLs with respect number of pupils availability across country. Therefore,...