A case of Nocardia asteroides pneumonia was diagnosed after death in a patient with AIDS. Six sputum cultures and one bronchoalveolar lavage fluid contained no pathogens, and no growth was obtained from one pleural fluid aspirate. None of these specimens was incubated for more than two days. Extended incubation for mycobacteria also failed to help in the diagnosis. N asteroides was isolated fro...

A radioimmunoassay procedure for follicle-stimulating hormone in serum has been developed in which the assay mixture is incubated at 37#{176}C for a total of 22 h, rather than at 4#{176}C for 4-7 days. The withinassay coefficients of variation for the 37#{176}C and 4#{176}C methods, respectively, are 7.7% and 5.0%, while the between-assay variations are 13.8% and 9.9%. Comparison of values for ...

We studied 29 girls and one boy with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis who were at Risser grade 0 at the time of posterior spinal fusion and were followed until maturity (mean 7.8 years). We used serial radiographs to measure the ratio of disc to vertebral height in the fused segments and to detect differential anterior spinal growth and assess its effect on scoliosis, vertebral rotation, kyphosi...

Rocchini, D. (corresponding author, [email protected], [email protected]) & Neteler, M. ([email protected]): Fondazione Edmund Mach, Research and Innovation Centre, Department of Biodiversity and Molecular Ecology, GIS and Remote Sensing Unit, Via E. Mach 1, 38010 S. Michele all’Adige, TN, Italy McGlinn, D. ([email protected]): Department of Biology, The University of N...

Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a major social and public health problem, affecting many women worldwide (Klein et al. 1997; WHO 2005). Past research reveals that about one in four women are at risk of IPV in most Western nations (Mirrlees-Black 1999; Mouzos & Makkai 2004; Tjaden & Thoennes 2000; WHO 2005) and a range of factors associated with the prevalence and consequences of IPV have bee...

accumulation, 71, 110, 111 non-ideal, 81 agarose, 33, 35, 44 pore size, 59 alkalinity, 35, 176, 183 aluminium, 44, 67, 176, 238 ammonia, 35, 176 ammonium persulphate, 33, 266 analytical techniques, 285 colorimetry, 181–182 computer imaging densitometry (CID), 181–182, 185, 202, 285 hyperspectral imaging, 182 laser ablation – ICPMS, 185–188, 285 PIXE, 175, 176 antimony, 44, 67, 135 area of windo...

Using a system of axioms among with a modified definition of boundary on the basis of the intuitionistic fuzzy sets, we formulate an inductive structure for the dimension of fuzzy spaces which has been defined by Coker. This new definition of boundary allows to characterize an intuitionistic fuzzy clopen set as a set with zero boundary. Also, some critical properties and applications are establ...