Drug addiction is a complex problem which leads to many somatic, psychic and social diseases. It is accompanied by the disturbed metabolism of various macro and micronutrients. The aim of this study was to assess serum magnesium concentration in drug-addicted patients and analyze whether Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection and methadone treatment affect the level of serum magnesium in ...

in a previous paper, the second author established that, given finite fields $f < e$ and certain subgroups $c leq e^times$, there is a galois connection between the intermediate field lattice ${l mid f leq l leq e}$ and $c$'s subgroup lattice. based on the galois connection, the paper then calculated the irreducible, complex character degrees of the semi-direct product $c rtimes {rm gal} (e/f)$...

In [ECHLPT] and [S] it is shown that if the fundamental group of a Seifert fibred 3manifold is not virtually nilpotent then it has an automatic structure. In the unpublished 1992 preprint [G2] Gersten constructs a biautomatic structure on the fundamental group of any circle bundle over a hyperbolic surface. He asks if the same can be done for the above Seifert fibered 3-manifold. We show the ex...

We introduce the rank-growth function rkH(i) of a subgroup H of a finitely generated free group F . rkH(i) is defined to be the rank of the subgroup of H generated by elements of length less than or equal to i (with respect to the generators of F ), and it equals the rank of the fundamental group of the subgraph of the cosets graph of H, which consists of the paths starting at 1 that are of len...

A group G given by a presentation G = 〈A ‖ R〉 is called weakly finitely presented if every finitely generated subgroup of G, generated by (images of) some words in A, is naturally isomorphic to the subgroup of a group G0 = 〈A0 ‖ R0〉, where A0 ⊆ A, R0 ⊆ R are finite, generated by (images of) the same words. In the article, weakly finitely presented periodic groups which are not locally finite ar...

For decades, babies were thought to be born germ-free, but recent evidences suggest that they are already exposed to various bacteria in utero. However, the data on population levels of such pioneer gut bacteria, particularly in context to birth mode, is sparse. We herein aimed to quantify such bacteria from the meconium of 151 healthy term Japanese infants born vaginally or by C-section. Neona...

In the first part, we prove that the dominion (in the sense of Isbell) of a subgroup of a finitely generated nilpotent group is trivial in the category of all nilpotent groups. In the second part, we show that the dominion of a subgroup of a finitely generated nilpotent group of class two is trivial in the category of all metabelian nilpotent groups. Section

We develop some new topological tools to study maximal subgroups of free idempotent generated semigroups. As an application, we show that the rank 1 component of the free idempotent generated semigroup of the biordered set of a full matrix monoid of size n×n,n > 2 over a division ring Q has maximal subgroup isomorphic to the multiplicative subgroup of Q.

1. Introduction. It is the purpose of this paper to study some of the properties of the double cosets of a finite group and to prove two main theorems which generalize the results of two previous papers by the author, 2 giving some relations between the double cosets and the irreducible components of the permutation group generated by a given subgroup. We let H be an arbitrary but fixed subgrou...