The giant otter, Pteronura brasiliensis, is one of the largest carnivores of South America (Duplaix, 1980). Its historical distribution extended from the northern part of the South American continent to the north-central portion of Argentina (Carter and Rosas, 1997). Because of the destruction of its habitat and intense hunting pressure due to the demand of the international “haute couture” for...

Consider a unit which can experience any one of k competing failure types, and suppose that for each unit we observe the time to failure, T , and the type of failure, C ∈ {1, 2, . . . , k}. The case of observing the pair (T, C) is termed “competing risks” in the statistical literature. After considering some examples we review basic notation and theory of competing risks. In particular we consi...

Introduction Listeriosis is a food-borne disease which primarily affects people in particular risk-groups (immuno-suppressed, elderly, neonates) in which lethality is as high as 25%. The disease does occur in out-breaks but most cases appear as sporadic cases. The disease is primarily associated with ready-to-eat (RTE) food products with extended (refrigerated) shelf life. Outbreaks have mostly...

1 renal drug-drug interactions with selected antivirals 2 3 František Trejtnar, Jana Mandíková, Jana Kočíncová, Marie Volková 4 5 Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Pharmacy in Hradec Kralove, Department of 6 Pharmacology and Toxicology, Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic 7 8 Corresponding author: Tel: +420 495 067 436; Fax: +420 495 067 170; E-mail: 9 [email protected] 10 11 Running titl...

We compute complete leading logarithms in Φ4 theory with the help of Connes and Kreimer RG equations. These equations are defined in the Lie algebra dual to the Hopf algebra of graphs. The results are compared with calculations in parquet approximation. An interpretation of the new RG equations is discussed.

N. E. Rajeevan, P. P. Pradyumnan, Ravi Kumar, D. K. Shukla, S. Kumar, A. K. Singh, S. Patnaik, S. K. Arora, and I. V. Shvets Department of Physics, University of Calicut, Kerala-673 635, India Materials Science Division, IUAC, New Delhi 110 067, India Department of Physics, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh 202 002, India Department of Applied Physics, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh 202 00...

Objective(s): Repaglinide (RG) is an antihyperglycemic agent used for the treatment of non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus. It has a good safety and efficacy profile in diabetic patients with complications in renal impairment and is an appropriate treatment choice, even for individuals with more severe degrees of renal malfunctions. The aim of the present study was to examine the protective...