BACKGROUND CYP2E1, the coding gene for the ethanol inducible cytochrome P4502E1, is polymorphic at the RsaI restriction site in the 5' flanking region. The mutant allele c2 has a higher transcriptional activity than the wild-type gene c1. P4502E1 catalyses the activation of several environmental carcinogens at a rate that is increased, if only moderately, by longterm ethanol intake. AIMS To e...

A dual formulation of the S Matrix for N = 4 SYM has recently been presented, where all leading singularities of n-particle Nk−2MHV amplitudes are given as an integral over the Grassmannian G(k, n), with cyclic symmetry, parity and superconformal invariance manifest. In this short note we show that the dual superconformal invariance of this object is also manifest. The geometry naturally sugges...

CASE REPORT Case 1 A 50-year-old female intravenous drug user presented with neck pain and electrical sensations in the upper and lower limbs on neck flexion (Lhermitte’s sign). There was no history of head and neck trauma but she reported tonsilopharyngitis one to two weeks prior to consultation. Her physical examination was normal except for a positive Lhermitte’s sign. Magnetic resonance ima...

In this paper, we introduce the notion of super finitely separating functions which gives a characterization of RB-domains. Then we prove that FS-domains and RB-domains are equivalent in some special cases by the following three claims: a dcpo is an RB-domain if and only if there exists an approximate identity for it consisting of super finitely separating functions; a consistent join-semilatti...

The purpose of multi-focus image fusion is gathering the essential information and the focused parts from the input multi-focus images into a single image. These multi-focus images are captured with different depths of focus of cameras. A lot of multi-focus image fusion techniques have been introduced using considering the focus measurement in the spatial domain. However, the multi-focus image ...

BACKGROUND: Electrocardiography is one of the simplest, most widely used, inexpensive, and informative methods in functional diagnostics; yet, if performed poorly, its diagnostic value sharply reduced. Several attempts were made to systematize errors deviations electrode application, but all concerned common options (rearrangement red yellow electrodes, green chest electrodes above or below sta...

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Aquatic habitats are usually structured by light attenuation with depth resulting in different microalgal communities, each one adapted to a certain light regime by their specific pigment composition. Several taxa contain pigments restricted to one phylogenetic group, making them useful as marker pigments in phytoplankton community studies. The nuisance and invasive freshwater microalga Gonyost...

ions are star-free ω-regular expressions [Lad77, Tho79] with variables and intersection. In general, deciding subset for such a language is intractable, but not every history abstraction expression can appear in practice. Our implementation of Mobile decides subset for a sub-language of the language of history abstractions. We present this sub-language below, we argue that it captures most of t...

This study investigated associations between SNPs in genes encoding metabolizing drug enzymes and laboratory parameters in sickle cell anemia patients under hydroxyurea (SCA-HU+). We evaluated hematologic and biochemical parameters by electronic methods and SNPs by PCR-RFLP and multiplex PCR in 35 SCA-HU+ patients and 67 SCA-HU- patients. The HbS, total cholesterol, lactate dehydrogenase, aspar...