A total of 907 cases of leprosy from two sources, records from Baba-Baghi Leprosarium (709 cases) and Ahar case finding survey (198 cases), have been studied. The main characteristics of the cases are: a) about 50% of all cases are lepromatous leprosy; b) the leprosarium cases are about 2.5 years younger; c) about 70% of all cases are male; and d) the incidence of leprosy shows a steady increas...

a Tuna Research and Conservation Center, Monterey Bay Aquarium, 886 Cannery Row, Monterey, CA 93940, USA b University of Hawaii, Manoa, 2450 Campus Rd, Dean Hall 2, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA c Research Center for Subtropical Fisheries, Seikai National Fisheries Research Institute, 148-446, Fukai-Ohta, Ishigaki, Okinawa 907-0451, Japan d School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, 905 Koyukuk Drive, F...

The quest for a whiter shade of pale dates back to ancient civilizations, when a pale complexion was associated with aristocratic lineage. During the Tang dynasty (618-907), Chinese women used ground pearl powder as a whitening make-up. In ancient Persia, field workers bleached their skin with pure natural hydroquinone to keep it from darkening under the sun. In Europe, during the Renaissance, ...

The paper concerns discrete versions of the three well-known results of projective differential geometry: the four vertex theorem, the six affine vertex theorem and the Ghys theorem on four zeroes of the Schwarzian derivative. We study geometry of closed polygonal lines in RP and prove that polygons satisfying a certain convexity condition have at least d + 1 flattenings. This result provides a...

The complexity of cancer chemotherapy requires pharmacists be familiar with the complicated regimens and highly toxic agents used. This column reviews various issues related to preparation, dispensing, and administration of antineoplastic therapy, and the agents, both commercially available and investigational, used to treat malignant diseases. Questions or suggestions for topics should be addr...

Circulation is available at http://circ.ahajournals.org DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.115.017923 From the Departments of Medicine (R.C.M., O.S., A.S., M.T.) and Laboratory Medicine (T.W.K.), University of California, San Francisco. This article is Part I of a 2-part article. Part II appears on pp 894–907. Correspondence to R. Curtis Morris, Jr, MD, Department of Medicine, University of California...

Gene conversion and conversion-associated reciprocal recombination have been studied in various Saccharomyces cerevisiae hybrids. In a sample of 11,023 unselected meiotic tetrads, 907 conversions were observed at the arg4, thr3, his1, and SUP6 loci. Of these conversions, 445 (or 49.1%) were associated with reciprocal recombination of bracketing markers no more than 20-centimorgans apart. For co...

S. Dürr1, Z. Fodor1,2,3, C. Hoelbling2,5, S.D. Katz2,3, S. Krieg∗,2,4, Th. Kurth2, L. Lellouch5, Th. Lippert1,2,4, K.K. Szabo2, G. Vulvert5 1John von Neumann Institute for Computing (NIC), DESY, D-15738, Zeuthen / FZJ, D-52425, Juelich, Germany 2Department of Physics, University of Wuppertal, D-42097 Wuppertal, Germany 3Institute for Theoretical Physics, Eötvös University, H-1117 Budapest, Hung...

The safety and feasibility of early ambulation was evaluated prospectively in 907 patients undergoing elective coronary angioplasty and stenting with the use of 6Fr guiding catheters, low-dose heparin (5,000 IU), and immediate postprocedural sheath removal by comparing ambulation after 4 hours with immobilization for at least 12 hours. Because no excess in puncture site complications (2.3% vs 2...