Background: The aim of this study was to describe the endoscopic findings in patients with upper GI symptoms after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery and to correlate clinical features with endoscopic findings. Methods: Patients with symptoms after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass referred for endoscopy were studied. Endoscopy was performed in standard fashion with a 9.8-mm diameter endoscope. Results: F...

I discuss the physics reach of a fixed-target charm experiment which can reconstruct >10 charm decays, three orders of magnitude beyond the largest extant sample. Such an experiment may run at Fermilab shortly after the Year 2000. In addition to “programmatic” charm physics such as spectroscopy, lifetimes, and tests of QCD, this “Charm2000” experiment will have significant sensitivity to new ph...

The Image Reduction and Analysis Facility is a scientific image processing package widely used throughout the astronomical community. IRAF has been developed and distributed by the National Optical Astronomy Observatory in Tucson, Arizona since the early 1980’s. Other observatories and projects have written many dozens of layered external application packages. More than ten thousand journal art...

adsorption of co2 on the surface of single-wall zigzag (5,0) and armchair (4,4) carbon nanotubes (swcnts) were studied through using density functional theory (dft) calculations. optimizations of geometric were performed at the b3pw91 level of 6-311++g** method standard basis set using gaussian 03 package of program [1]. structural models were optimized and adsorption energies, band gap, charge...

8 9 Abstract 10 11 The control of the right application of medical protocols is a key issue in hospital environments. 12 For the automated monitoring of medical protocols, we need a domain-independent language for 13 their representation and a fully, or semi, autonomous system that understands the protocols and 14 supervises their application. In this paper we describe a specification language ...

This study was undertaken to analyze the differentiation profiles assessed by immunophenotyping in AIDS-related B-cell lymphoma (ARL) and their relation to the clinical course. Paraffin-embedded sections of 89 ARL cases during 1989 to 2004 were stained immunohistochemically with antibodies to CD3, CD10, CD20, CD38, CD138/Syndecan-1 (Syn-1), multiple myeloma-1/interferon regulatory factor-4 (MUM...

The infamous bug has come and passed. This bug came about because programmers’ thought horizon did not reach into the new millenium. When the clock rolled over into the 21 century, software that thought the date was 1900 could disastrously fail. Fortunately, its impact was less than forecasted. Problem prevention has cost about 100B, which is significantly less than many forecasters predicted. ...

The primary associations of the HLA class II genes, HLA-DRB1 and HLA-DQB1, and the class I genes, HLA-A and HLA-B, with type 1 diabetes (T1D) are well established. However, the role of polymorphism at the HLA-DRB3, HLA-DRB4, and HLA-DRB5 loci remains unclear. In two separate studies, one of 500 subjects and 500 control subjects and one of 366 DRB1*03:01-positive samples from selected multiplex ...

We describe an Electronic Programming Guide (EPG) that uses interactive panning and zooming, gestures, and spoken dialog to enable viewers to access relevant information in large hyperlinked databases. The guide is imbued with a "personality" that gives the impression to the viewer of interacting with an intelligent, opinionated agent.