The objective. was to investigate L-Carnitine level and the effects of its supplementation in children with moderate persistent Asthma. Methods. Free and total serum carnitine levels were measured in 50 children having moderate persistent asthma and 50 healthy control children. The patients group was randomly divided into two subgroups. Subgroup A was supplemented with L-carnitine for 6 months ...

For 4 ∤ L and g large, we calculate the integral Picard groups of the moduli spaces of curves and principally polarized abelian varieties with level L structures. In particular, we determine the divisibility properties of the standard line bundles over these moduli spaces and we calculate the second integral cohomology group of the level L subgroup of the mapping class group (in a previous pape...

OBJECTIVE To determine the feasibility of using the combined oral clonidine and the short-ACTH test instead of the sometimes dangerous insulin-induced hypoglycemia test as a screening procedure, for the simultaneous assessment of growth hormone reserve and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis integrity in children with growth retardation. DESIGN Evaluative study. METHOD Seventy-three childre...

We are concerned with conditions under which a locally compact group G has a maximal compact normal subgroup K and whether or not G/K is a Lie group. If G has small compact normal subgroups K such that G/K is a Lie group, then G is pro-Lie. If in G there is a collection of closed normal subgroups {Ha} such that f~| Ha = e and G/Ha is a Lie group for each a, then G is a residual Lie group. We de...

Let G be a semi-simple Lie group with finite center and S ⊂ G a semigroup with intS 6= Ø . A closed subgroup L ⊂ G is said to be S -admissible if S is transitive in G/L . In [10] it was proved that a necessary condition for L to be S -admissible is that its action in B (S) is minimal and contractive where B (S) is the flag manifold associated with S , as in [9]. It is proved here, under an addi...

1. The main theorems revisited We now state in more detail the main theorems of class field theory. However, we need two more preliminary definitions: Definition 1.1. Given an extension L/K of number fields, and a fractional ideal I of L, we define the fractional ideal N L/K (I) of K as follows: write I = i q ei i , let p i = q i ∩ O K , and let N L/K (I) = i p eifi i. Definition 1.2. Let σ : K...

‎we characterize those groups $g$ and vector spaces $v$ such that $v$ is a faithful irreducible $g$-module and such that each $v$ in $v$ is centralized by a $g$-conjugate of a fixed non-identity element of the fitting subgroup $f(g)$ of $g$‎. ‎we also determine those $v$ and $g$ for which $v$ is a faithful quasi-primitive $g$-module and $f(g)$ has no regular orbit‎. ‎we do use these to show in ...

Let $G$ be a locally compact group, $H$ be a compact subgroup of $G$ and $varpi$ be a representation of the homogeneous space $G/H$ on a Hilbert space $mathcal H$. For $psi in L^p(G/H), 1leq p leqinfty$, and an admissible wavelet $zeta$ for $varpi$, we define the localization operator $L_{psi,zeta} $ on $mathcal H$ and we show that it is a bounded operator. Moreover, we prove that the localizat...

Aspartate aminotransferase from Corynebacterium glutamicum (CgAspAT) is a PLP-dependent enzyme that catalyzes the production of L-aspartate and α-ketoglutarate from L-glutamate and oxaloacetate in L-lysine biosynthesis. In order to understand the molecular mechanism of CgAspAT and compare it with those of other aspartate aminotransferases (AspATs) from the aminotransferase class I, we determine...