Handling Monographs in Series

Series 0contributions from the European Respiratory Monographs

Noninvasive ventilation and obstructive lung diseases. A. Cuvelier, J-F. Muir. #ERS Journals Ltd 2001. ABSTRACT: The key role of noninvasive positive pressure ventilation (NPPV) is well documented in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients with acute respiratory failure (ARF) since it may avoid endotrachal intubation in w50% of cases when used as the initial treatment. However, cu...

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Handling Hypergeometric Series in Maple

This paper discusses and evaluates the standard procedures available in Maple 4.3 for handling hypergeometric series. Some suggestions for improvement are given. The paper concludes with a survey of the algorithms of Gosper and of Zeilberger for possibly evaluating a terminating series of hypergeometric type. This paper appeared in Orthogonal polynomials and their applications, C. Brezinski, L....

Monographs in Allergy

The relation of tissue mast cells to immune reactions, particularly anaphylaxis, has been the subject of extensive investigation and speculation in recent years. It is generally agreed that a variety of pharmacologically active substances are involved in the pathogenesis of anaphylaxis, that many of these substances are stored in tissue mast cells, and that anaphylaxis in many species is mediat...

Virology Monographs

The author of the section on cytomegaloviruses (CMV, formerly known as salivary gland virus) is Dr. J. B. Hanshaw, who has been one of the major contributors in elucidating the problems of this interesting infection. The characteristic large cells with prominent intranuclear inclusions seen in histologic sections of infected tissues were recognized as early as 1904, but extensive information co...