a: Recent studies of choroidal neovascultization (CNV) associated with high myopia suggest that laser weatment can be effective in the management of selected cases. Nevertheless, visual outcome of treated cases during follow-up tends to be jeopardtzed by extension of laser scars. This study was designed to clarify the visual prognosis during long-rem? followup of myopic CNV treated by laser pho...

background: hb a2 is elevated in subjects with beta thalassemia minor but small percent of carriers have normal hb a2 with elevated levels of hbf (2-10%). this type of thalassemia is called delta beta thalassemia, and can be missed in pre-marriage hematologic consults or screening which leads to increased risk of child birth with beta thalassemia major. materials and methods: in this prospectiv...

We show that oral inoculation of 5 day old conventional piglets with a rough. attenuated S. Infantis 1326/28Ф (serogroup C1), 24h prior to oral challenge with S. Typhimurium 4/74 (serogroup B), resulted in significant weight gain (~10%) measured at 14 days post-weaning (38 days of age). Two days after challenge the S. Typhimurium induced stunting and, in some cases loss, of villi but this was p...

Note that we assume of the sphere being embedded in R, and the unit distance included from the ambient space. Diameter graphs arise naturally in the context of Borsuk’s problem. In 1933 Borsuk [3] asked whether any set of diameter 1 in R can be partitioned into (d+1) parts of strictly smaller diameter. The positive answer to this question is called Borsuk’s conjecture. This was shown to be true...

An asymptomatic 75-year-old female with past medical history of percutaneous coronary intervention for angina pectoris was referred to our department for the management of left ventricular aneurysm which was pointed out on the follow-up echocardiography. Coronary angiography revealed no restenosis of the stent site, but 100% stenosis of a distal segment of the left circumflex artery that had no...

1326. Validation of the Antibiotic Spectrum Score Method to Measure Antibiotic De-escalation (AD) Utilizing Electronic Bar Code Medication Admininstration Data in Patients with Healthcare Associated Pneumonia (HCAP) Karl Madaras-Kelly, PharmD, MPH; Makoto Jones, MD, MS; Richard Remington, MS; Christina Caplinger, PharmD; Benedikt Huttner, MD; Matthew Samore, MD; VA Med. Ctr., Coll. of Pharmacy,...

The objective of a Texttospeech system is to convert an orthographic text into intelligible and natural sounding speech. In order to achieve this, unit selection plays a vital role. Phoneme, diphone, allophone and syllable are the basic units of speech system. Considering phoneme as a basic unit for concatenation based TTS system results in larger concatenation points, this result in low qualit...

Vector systems allowing autonomous or site-specific integrative gene cloning were developed for Micromonospora sp. strain 40027, a producer of the antibiotic fortimicin A. The autonomous system depends on the discovery of a low-copy-number, self-transmissible covalently closed circular plasmid, pJTU112 (ca. 14.1 kb), which was shown to be present in the progenitor strain in both integrated and ...