Two germanium thioantimonates [Co(dien)(2)](2)GeSb(4)S(10) (1, dien = diethylenetriamine) and [Mn(en)(3)]GeSb(2)S(6) (2, en = ethylenediamine) have been solvothermally synthesized and characterized by IR, UV/Vis, fluorescence spectroscopy, elemental analysis, thermogravimetric analysis, powder X-ray diffraction and single-crystal X-ray diffraction. 1 contains heterometallic pseudosemicube [GeSb...

Reduction en masse refers to the rare occurrence of an incarcerated inguinal hernia arising from the manual reduction of a hernia. Such a condition constitutes a medical emergency because the hernia contents, such as the small bowel, remain strangulated in the preperitoneal space. Therefore, an early and accurate diagnosis, with early treatment, is important. A 61-year-old Japanese man presente...

The development of ambient social applications brings challenges to aggregate information from heterogeneous sources, like users, physical environments, and available services. We propose a framework for aggregating information from different sources, and utilize a novel representation, Entity Notation (EN), as a starting point of connecting all information to knowledge-based systems, which off...

NiCr2O4 normal spinel nanostructures were prepared via hydrothermal treatment at 180 °C for 12 h in the presence of cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB), sodium dodecyl sulphate (SDS) and poly vinylpyrrolidone-25000 (PVP-25000) as capping agents and subsequent calcination process at 500 °C for 3 h . In this method, [Ni(en)2(H2O)...

This paper discusses the QA system submitted by Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, India in the ResPubliQA 2010. We have participated in the monolingual en-en task. Our system retrieves a candidate paragraph that contains the answer to a natural language question. Depending on the n-gram similarity score of the candidate paragraph, a decision is made whether...

Many studies focus on the generation of hard SAT instances. The hardness is usually measured by the time it takes SAT solvers to solve the instances. In this preliminary study, we focus on the generation of instances that have computational properties that are more similar to realworld instances. In particular, instances with the same degree of difficulty, measured in terms of the tree-like res...

OBJECTIVE Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) surgery is currently the most effective treatment for diabetes and obesity. An increasingly recognized and highly disabling complication of RYGB is postprandial hypoglycaemia (PPH). The pathophysiology of PPH remains unclear with multiple mechanisms suggested including nesidioblastosis, altered insulin clearance and increased glucagon-like peptide-1 (GL...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the early effect of Roux-en-Y (RYGB) gastric bypass on hormones involved in body weight regulation and glucose metabolism. SIGNIFICANT BACKGROUND DATA: The RYGB is an effective bariatric procedure for which the mechanism of action has not been elucidated yet. Reports of hormonal changes after RYGB suggest a possible endocrine effect of the operation; however, it is unknown...