A Porroche-Escudero,* J Popay, B Barr, S Mosedale, A Ring, G Sadler, G Simpson, P Wheeler. National Institute for Health Research Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (NIHR CLAHRC) North West Coast, UK/ Division of Health Research, Lancaster University, UK; National Institute for Health Research Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (NIHR C...

A Novel DNA Repair Disorder With Thrombocytopenia, Nephrosis, and Features Overlapping Cockayne Syndrome Elizabeth Forsythe, Ruth Wild, Gabrielle Sellick, Richard S. Houlston, Alan R. Lehmann, and Emma Wakeling* Kennedy Galton Centre, North West Thames Regional Genetics Service, The North West London Hospitals NHS Trust, Middlesex, United Kingdom Section of Cancer Genetics, Institute of Cancer ...

Ten North Temperate taxa representing diverse angiosperm lineages were analyzed for biogeographic histories using the dispersal-vicariance analysis method to gain insights into the origin and evolution of disjunct distributions in the Northern Hemisphere. Results indicate four general biogeographic patterns: (1) origin and speciation in eastern Asia with subsequent expansion into North America ...

The characteristics of life-long persistent infection of hepatitis B virus (HBV) and the prevalence of different genotypes of HBV in China may cause new recombinants. In north-west China, HBV inter-genotype recombinants have been reported frequently over the last decade. Here, we report a B/C inter-genotype recombinant HBV with a novel genome mosaic structure from Lanzhou, a city in north-west ...

In the classical Projection-based Model for cardinal directions [6], a two-dimensional Euclidean space relative to an arbitrary single-piece region, a, is partitioned into the following nine tiles: North-West, NW(a); North, N(a); North-East, NE(a); West, W(a); Neutral Zone, O(a);East, E(a); South-West, SW(a); South, S(a); and South-East,SE(a). In our Horizontal and Vertical Constraints Model [9...

Based on a systematic review of the scientific literature, the North West Oxygen Group have developed guidelines for oxygen therapy for patients who present with acute breathlessness. The above emergency medicine physicians, chest physicians and intensive care physicians have gained approval from their regional societies to have this document accepted as the agreed regional guidelines for the u...

The aim of this project was to produce guidance for a rationalised virological electron microscopy specimen testing policy for PHLS North West, to facilitate centralisation of a groupwide diagnostic electron microscopy service on a single site. Careful specimen selection to limit numbers and the groupwide use of commercially available enzyme immunoassays has allowed PHLS North West to reduce th...

Barn Orientation The first freestall barn design criteria to consider should be the orientation of the structure. Barns with a north-south orientation are exposed to greater solar radiation than barns with an east-west orientation. Sunlight enters north-south oriented barns directly in the morning and afternoon. While afternoon sun is the most detrimental, morning sun also can affect cow behavi...

According to the rotational invariance of Harris corner detector and the robustness of Sift descriptor. An improved Harris-Sift corner descriptor was proposed. At first, the algorithm given multi-scale strategy to Harris corner, improved corner counting method and removed redundant points at the same time, then, the corner was directly applied to low-pass Gaussian filter image. Based on the his...