In 1993-1995, the authors evaluated risk factors for elevated blood and bone lead levels in 264 Boston, Massachusetts, area women previously selected for a case-control study of lead and hypertension. Bone lead was measured at the tibia and patella with K x-ray fluorescence. Blood lead was analyzed by graphite furnace atomic absorption. Participants were aged 46-74 years and had mean lead level...

OBJECTIVE To describe a patient with idiopathic zinc overload without an identifiable source and secondary copper deficiency causing myelopolyneuropathy and pancytopenia. DESIGN Case report. PATIENT AND RESULTS A 46-year-old man presented with severe bone marrow suppression and subsequently developed progressive myelopathy with sensory ataxia. No identifiable cause of myelopathy was detecte...

the essential nutrients in the pharmacological plants play a significant role in the remedy of illnesses but, these elements at high levels; can also be dangerous and toxic. the aim of this study was to determine the concentration of macro (mg, ca, p, and k) and micro (cu, zn, fe and mn) essential elements in seven indigenous pharmacological plants growing in fars province, southern iran. they ...

We discuss the deletion of a single vertex in a Delaunay tetrahedralization (DT). While some theoretical solutions exist for this problem, the many degeneracies in three dimensions make them impossible to be implemented without the use of extra mechanisms. In this paper, we present an algorithm that uses a sequence of bistellar flips to delete a vertex in a DT, and we present two different mech...

We present a spectral study of the evolution matrix of the totally asymmetric exclusion process on a ring at half filling. The natural symmetries (translation, charge conjugation combined with reflection) predict only two fold degeneracies. However , we have found that degeneracies of higher order also exist and, as the system size increases, higher and higher orders appear. These degeneracies ...

In the geometric realization of a cubical complex without degeneracies, a 2-set, dipaths and dihomotopies may not be combinatorial, i.e., not geometric realizations of combinatorial dipaths and equivalences. When we want to use geometric/topological tools to classify dipaths on the 1-skeleton, combinatorial dipaths, up to dihomotopy, and in particular up to combinatorial dihomotopy, we need tha...

Strong evidence indicates that the spectrum of planar anomalous dimensions of N = 4 super Yang-Mills theory is given asymptotically by Bethe equations. A curious observation is that the Bethe equations for the psu(1, 1|2) subsector lead to very large degeneracies of 2 multiplets, which apparently do not follow from conventional integrable structures. In this article, we explain such degeneracie...

We compute the boundary entropies for the allowed boundary conditions of the SU (2)-invariant principal chiral model at level k = 1. We used the reflection factors determined in previous work. As a by-product we obtain some miscellaneous results such as the ground-state energy for mixed boundary conditions as well as the degeneracies of the Kondo model in the underscreened and exactly screened ...