The clinical and diagnostic aspects of cystic fibrosis have been extensively reviewed, with an emphasis on neonatal screening. This systematic literature review involved a search for relevant contributions in the PubMed and SciELO databases. The first references to cystic fibrosis date to the Middle Ages. Cystic fibrosis is the most frequent autosomal recessive hereditary disease among Caucasia...

Definition Metasearch is to utilize multiple other search systems (called component search systems) to perform simultaneous search. A metasearch engine is a search system that enables metasearch. To perform a basic metasearch, a user query is sent to multiple existing search engines by the metasearch engine; when the search results returned from the search engines are received by the metasearch...

One of the few research projects to have focused on NHS hospital chaplains reports widely divergent views regarding its service. On the one hand, chaplaincy is described as being ‘utterly essential’, a view supported by comments reporting that it is a discipline surfing along ‘on the crest a wave’. On the other hand, it has also been described as being ‘benignly superfluous’ and as a profession...

A review is given of the mathematical procedures required for a molecular-replacement structure determination. These apply equally to the more frequently encountered situations where a known homologous structure can be used as a search model and to phase determination in the presence of non-crystallographic symmetry (NCS). In general, the former represents improper NCS between two different uni...

the historical background of the dastgāh concept, and the process through which it replaced the maqām system, still remains a major question in the history of persian music. it is usually vaguely assumed that both concepts of the dastgāh and the radīf were introduced to persian music during the qajar era. the present paper is a first attempt to shed light on the issue through a historical music...