BACKGROUND AND AIM Both thalassemia and carnitine deficiency represent independent causes of erythropoietin resistance, and thus anemia, in uremic patients. We evaluated the unknown long-term effects of L-carnitine administration in β-thalassemic on chronic hemodialysis. METHODS We studied twelve subjects (M = 8; F = 4) affected by β-thalassemia minor (β-thal; HbA2 level = 6.6 ± 0.6%) and for...

OBJECTIVE To compare the differences in the efficacy and safety of the commonly prescribed AEDs in the management of epilepsy in children when using divided doses of adult solid oral formulations (DDSF) with the liquid oral formulations (LFs). MATERIALS AND METHODS Patients who had one or more seizures per month and prescribed with DDSF were recruited. Initially the patients were continued on...

625 Relapsing Coombs-negative haemolytic anaemia in pregnancy with haemolytic disease in the newborn A rare form of acquired haemolytic anaemia is Coombs-negative haemolytic disease restricted to the period of pregnancy.'-3 Unlike previously reported cases, in our patient transient haemolytic disease developed in the infant also, lending support to the assumption of an autoimmune mechanism. Cas...

Although several staging systems have been proposed for pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (pNETs), the optimal staging system remains unclear. Here, we aimed to assess the application of the newly revised 8th edition American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) staging system for exocrine pancreatic carcinoma (EPC) to pNETs, in comparison with that of other staging systems. We identified pNETs pati...

The approaches and interpretations of a class of 6th graders and a class of 8th graders in a U.S. middle school asked to engage in tasks that involved using observations to describe and classify samples is the subject of this paper. Overall 8th graders were better able to perform the tasks, suggesting a developmental advantage aspect. However, the descriptions of the rock and mineral samples re...

the pea aphid, acyrthosiphon pisum (harris) is one of the most important pests of pea throughout the world.host stage preference under choice and no-choice tests and age-specific functional response of praon volucre (haliday) parasitizing a. pisum were investigated. the experiments were carried out under laboratory conditions at 25 ± 1 °c, 60 ± 5% rh and a photoperiod of 14: 10 h (l: d). functi...

disodium hemiphthalate glycyrrhetinic acid (dhga) possesses anti-inflammatory and analgestic activities. in our research, this agent was injected intraperitoneally to mice, according to the following schedule.1) 25 mg/kg, 50mg/kg & 75mg/kg at 7th day of pregnancy.2) 50 mg/kg & 75mg/kg at 8th day of pregnancy.3) 50mg/kg & 75mg/kg at 9th day of pregnancy.dhga with doses of 50mg/kg and 75mg/kg at ...

This paper discusses Brooks’ The Mythical Man-Month, a landmark work in the software project management field, and compares the software project management advice given there with practices employed some 25 years later. To find out the state of today’s practice 20 experienced software developers were interviewed regarding their impressions of factors leading to success or failure of software de...

Computer A nalysts frequently describe troubled projects with the tar pit metaphor used so effectively in Fred Brooks’s The Mythical Man-Month (2nd ed., AddisonWesley, Reading, Mass., 1995). We have found a similarly effective metaphor: Think of a troubled software project as an insect caught in a spiderweb of sticky constraints, trying desperately to break free before the spider arrives to feed.