Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) is a mountainous country in Southeast Asia, situated along the Mekong and bordering China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, and Myanmar. Cholera epidemics are known to have occurred in Laos during the time of the French colonial era and the Kingdom of Laos period prior to the establishment of Lao PDR in 1975. There are public records of cholera epidemics i...

UNLABELLED This study evaluated the intrapatient correlation for gastric emptying times with instant oatmeal and scrambled egg meals. In addition, this study evaluated the degree of overlap between the stomach and the colon or jejunum in the anterior (AP) and left anterior oblique (LAO) projections in CT studies of the abdomen. METHODS Fifteen patients were studied twice, 1 d apart, with inst...

Although biplane right anterior oblique-left anterior oblique (RAO/LAO) quantitative left ventricular (LV) angiography is commonly performed, justification for LV volume calculation using the area length method (originally formulated from anteroposterior-lateral (AP/LAT) angiograms) has been limited. To assess whether RAO/LAO and AP/LAT LV volumes are similar when computed by the area length me...

Introduction: Teratoma and Wilms’ tumor are among the most frequent tumors of childhood. The occurrence of nephroblastic elements in a teratoma is extremely rare. Only eight cases that occurred in the retroperitoneum have been reported in English literature. Such occurrence complicates the differential diagnosis because of the overlapping histopathological findings between teratoma with nephrob...

3H-Cimetidine binding to plasma membranes of isolated guinea pig gastric glands was investigated, and the effects of five H2-receptor antagonists on 3H-cimetidine binding and histamine stimulation of cellular cAMP were compared. Of the five cations tested, Cu++ markedly increased specific 3H-cimetidine binding. 3H-Cimetidine had high affinity (Kd = 0.41 x 10(-6) M) and low affinity (Kd = 12.8 x...

The physical properties of oxide heterointerfaces depend crucially on the electronic and ionic reconstructions across interface. For formation a two-dimensional electron liquid (2DEL) at interface ${\mathrm{LaAlO}}_{3}/{\mathrm{SrTiO}}_{3}$ (LAO/STO) systems, although it is well accepted that conduction amorphous-LAO/STO samples comes exclusively from oxygen vacancies due to interfacial redox r...

battlefield. Some twenty-five hundred years ago, Sun-Tzu taught us that if you knew the enemy and yourself, you would never be in danger in hundreds of battles. Sun-Tzu’s words, “Know your enemy,” mean knowing the enemy leader’s intentions. Sun-Tzu thought that if we knew the enemy's intentions, we could win a victory without war against the enemy. However, it is very difficult to find out the ...

This paper describes LaoGEM (Lao General Equilibrium Model), a 20 sector, 400 household general equilibrium model of the Lao economy, constructed specifically for the analysis of the effect of road improvement on rural poverty incidence in Laos. Unless otherwise stated, the database of the model refers to the year 2002. These features are relatively standard for comparative static general equil...