Bacterial vaginosis (BV) is characterized by dramatic changes in the vaginal ecosystem. Women without evidence of vaginal infection may exhibit transient changes in their flora. We prospectively followed up women by using diaries and self-obtained vaginal smears to correlate behaviors with changes in flora. The majority of women (38/51, 78%) had significant, although transient, changes. Behavio...

background: aquatic insects are very abundant and divers groups of insects that are associated with an aquatic or semiaquatic environment in one or more of their life stages. these insects have been, in some cases, well studied because they are vectors of several diseases. this is the first comprehensive faunistic study of aquatic insects from babol county. the results may provide basic data fo...

Kalpana V Mahadik1, Ashish Pathak2,3, Harshada Shah4, Manju Raj Purohit2,5 1. Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, RD Gardi Medical College, Ujjain, India 2. Division of Global Health, Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden 3. Department of Paediatrics, RD Gardi Medical College, Ujjain, India 4. Department of Microbiology, RD Gardi Medical College, U...

The present ethnobotanical study was carried out in Holi (Deol, Kut, Dal, and Lahaud Dhar) forest range and in Bharmor (Seri, Bharmour, Malkauta, Bharmani, Harsar, Dhancho, Sundrasi, Gorikund, and Manimahesh) forest range to obtain information on the plants used by the local inhabitants for several purposes. A total of 54 plants were recorded in this study. The plants are employed to treat simp...

This paper describes how a concept lattice that represents semantic relations (synonymy, hyponymy, hypernymy) in a set of words can be used for semantic matching. This kind of concept lattice is the result of the formal concept analysis technique used for determining semantic relations in a set of words extracted from a monolingual dictionary. It is shown how relations between concepts can be m...

*Correspondence: H. Peter Linder, Institute of Systematic Botany, University of Zurich, Zollikerstrasse 107, CH-8008 Zurich, Switzerland e-mail: [email protected] Sub-Saharan Africa includes some 45,000 plant species. The spatial patterns of this diversity have been well explored. We can group the species into a set of biogeographical regions (largely co-incident with regions defined ...

The isolation rate of Streptococcus pneumoniae in sputum cultures from patients with pneumococcal pneumonia is low. An investigation was made to determine whether this low yield might be due to loss of pneumocci and/or overgrowth by pharyngeal flora before the specimen is plated. Pneumococcal survival times and pharyngeal overgrowth at 4 degrees C and at room temperature were determined in sput...

The paper explores the possibility of performing temporal projection in the “Digital Aristotle” reasoning system. In particular, it investigates the relationship between two methods for computing trajectories of dynamic systems: a first method using action languages and the answer set semantics, and a second method using the object-oriented declarative language Flora-2. The former method is sou...

We define logic programs with defaults and argumentation theories, a new framework that unifies most of the earlier proposals for defeasible reasoning in logic programming. We present a model-theoretic semantics and study its reducibility and well-behavior properties. We use the framework as an elegant and flexible foundation to extend and improve upon Generalized Courteous Logic Programs (GCLP...