In every decade, sarcoidosis makes a chameleon-like change so its profile needs to be updated. It was first recognised as a dermatological curiosity which evolved into a multisystem disorder with bone cysts, uveitis, and intrathoracic involvement. New dimensions were uncovered by biochemistry and immunology, bringing it still nearer the elusive enigma, namely the cause of sarcoidosis. Aetiology...

Darrin, age 4, and Corrinne, age 3, attend a child care center while their mother, Shawna, age 22, works at a dry cleaning business. One afternoon the teacher in the center noticed bruises on Darrin’s buttocks. She reported this to the center’s social worker, Lisa. Lisa contacted the hotline of the Missouri Division of Family Services (DFS), the CPS agency. This call was the fifth report to DFS...

1 Institut für Informatik, LFG Künstliche Intelligenz, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Rudower Chaussee 25, 12489 Berlin, Germany 2 Bremer Institut für Sichere Systeme, TZI, FB 3 Mathematik/Informatik, Universität Bremen, Postfach 330440, 28334 Bremen, Germany 3 Fachgebiet Simulation und Systemoptimierung, FB 20 Informatik, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Alexanderstr. 10, 64283 Darmstadt, Ge...

We study the two-body and three-body charmful baryonic B decays: B 0 → Λc p̄ and B → Λc p̄ π(ρ). The factorizable W -exchange contribution to B 0 → Λc p̄ is negligible. Applying the bag model to evaluate the baryon-to-baryon weak transition matrix element, we find B(B → Λc p̄) <∼ 2.5 × 10−5|gB0pΣ+b /8| 2 with gB0pΣ+ b being a strong coupling for the decay Σb → B 0 p and hence the predicted branchin...

Since 2008 several European countries have fallen into a financial crisis. This crisis has mainly affected the Greek population. The lower of income and the increase of unemployment as consequences of crisis lead to negative effects on people's mental health. Usually, in periods of economic crisis there is an increase of suicidality of population. The aim of this study is to examine the changes...

Persistent symptomless human metapneu-movirus infection in hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients. metapneumovirus infection in lung transplant recipients: clinical presentation and epidemiology. Characterization of multidrug-resistant in-fl uenza A/H3N2 viruses shed during one year by an immunocompromised child. et al. Virological features and clinical manifestations associated with hum...

PURPOSE To examine smoking behaviours in Taiwan and compare those behaviours to those in the USA. METHODS Using the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) of Taiwan (2001), a survey of over 20 000 participants, frequencies were calculated for smoking, ex-smoking, quantity smoked, and exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS). Breakdowns by age, sex, and socioeconomic status were also cal...