Results: Stone size greater than 0.67 centimeters and location in the proximal ureter were found to be statistically significant in predicting complications. When individualizing operative complications with stone characteristics, a stone density of 817 Hounsfield units (HU) or greater, stone size of 0.79 centimeters or greater, and operative time greater than 53 minutes all showed statistical ...

Chemical Synthesis and Pollution Contro College of Chemistry and Chemical Engin Nanchong 637002, P. R. China. E-mail: 2568067; Tel: +86 817 2568067 State Key Laboratory of Functional Materi Microsystem and Information Technology, 20050, P. R. China. E-mail: yangsiwei@ma 420; Tel: +86 021 62511070 ext. 420 School of Chemical Engineering, Nanjing Nanjing 210094, P. R. China Materials and Process ...

Biodegradable polyacrylates were produced by a series of novel copolymerization and/or crosslinking techniques using poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA) moieties modified by the incorporation of olefinic structures. PVA was modified by a tosylation and/or detosylation reaction. The functionalized PVA was copolymerized and/or crosslinked with acrylic acid or its partially neutralized form to give crosslin...

UNLABELLED The National Agricultural Biotechnology Information Center (NABIC) in South Korea reconstructed a RiceQTLPro database for gene positional analysis and structure prediction of the chromosomes. This database is an integrated web-based system providing information about quantitative trait loci (QTL) markers in rice plant. The RiceQTLPro has the three main features namely, (1) QTL marker...

Human porphobilinogen deaminase (PBGD) is, reportedly, encoded by 2 distinct messenger RNAs (mRNAs) transcribing from a single gene. The ubiquitous form of the PBGD gene product is often used as an endogenous reference in gene expression studies because it is pseudogene free and has minimal transcriptional variability among tissues. A distinct erythroid-specific gene product has also been descr...

Funding: we thank the Parker Hughes Fund and National Institutes of Health for grants for supporting this study. DN is supported by a research grant from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, NO 817/1-1), NK is supported by a fellowship from the Tower Cancer Research Foundation. HPK holds the Mark Goodson Chair in Oncology Research at Cedars Sinai Medical Center and is a member of the Jonss...

For a monadic sentence ψ in the finite vocabulary we show that the spectra, the set of cardinalities of models of ψ is almost periodic under reasonable conditions. The first is that every model is so called “weakly k-decomposable”. The second is that we restrict ourselves to a nice class of models constructed by some recursion. This research was supported by the Israel Science Foundation I woul...

The title compound CpH49Cl4LN80 16Pt-,, Mr 1314.1, is monoclinic P 2, (from structural analy­ sis), a = 8.74(1), b = 11.36(1), c = 8.63(1), ß = 107.6(5), V = 817 Ä3, Z = 1, Dm (flotation) = 2.65 g cm-3, D c = 2.66 g cm-3, MoKa A = 0.71069, /u = 110.7 cm-1, R = 0.063 for 1068 observed reflections. Rotation photographs show diffuse patterns corresponding to odd values of k together with weak Brag...

PROBLEM The purpose of this retrospective study was to explore the relationship between recognized risk factors for suicidal thought and the presence or absence of self-reported suicidal thought. METHODS This study was conducted through the secondary analysis of data obtained from a larger, prospective, cluster-randomized intervention study. A subset of 817 recruits between the ages of 17 and...

This paper is the first of a series of papers in which we generalize our results in (Asian J. of Math. 4, 817–830 (2000); J. Geom. Anal. 12, 63–79 (2002); Intern. J. Math. 14, 259–287 (2003)) to the general complex compact almost homogeneous manifolds of real cohomogeneity one. In this paper we deal with the exceptional case of the G2 action (Cf. Intern. J. Math. 14, 259–287 (2003), p. 285). In...