BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES Palestinian strains of L.tropica characterized by multilocus enzyme electrophoresis (MLEE) fall into two zymodemes, either MON-137 or MON-307. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPLE FINDINGS Assays employing PCR and subsequent RFLP were applied to sequences found in the Hexokinase (HK) gene, an enzyme that is not used in MLEE, and the Phosphoglucomutase (PGM) gene, an enzyme that is used...

BACKGROUND Differences could exist in the likelihood of asthma attacks in patients treated with inhaled corticosteroid (ICS), long-acting beta-agonist (LABA), and montelukast (MON) (ICS/LABA/MON) and patients treated with an inhaled corticosteroid (ICS) and montelukast (MON) (ICS/MON). METHODS This was a post-hoc analysis of a pretest-posttest retrospective cohort study. Patients with mild pe...

Macbeath gave a formula for the number of xed points for each non-identity element of a cyclic group of automorphisms of a compact Riemann surface in terms of the universal covering transformation group of the cyclic group. We observe that this formula generalizes to determine the xed-point set of each non-identity element of a cyclic group of automorphisms acting on a closed non-orientable sur...

In this paper we formulate and prove some xed and common xed pointTheorems for self-mappings dened on complete lower Transversal functionalprobabilistic spaces.

In this paper a hybrid type theory HTT is deened which combines the programming language notion of partial type with the logical notion of total type into a single theory. A new partial type constructor A is added to the type theory: objects in A may diverge, but if they converge, they must be members of A. A xed point typing rule is given to allow for typing of xed points. The underlying theor...

The basics of a block oriented fractal image coder, are described. The output of the coder is an IFS (Iterated Function System) code, which describes the image as a xed-point of a contractive transformation. A new hierarchical interpretation of the IFS code, which relates diierent scales of the xed-point to the code, is presented and proved. The proof is based on nding a function of a continuou...

Human leukemic cells which bear the common acute lymphoblastic leukemia antigen can be lysed with a murine mon oclonal antibody (J-5) in the presence of rabbit complement. Conditions have been defined for eliminating 51Cr-labeled com mon acute lymphoblastic leukemia antigen-positive NALM-1 cells or cryopreserved leukemic lymphoblasts from a 100-fold excess of human bone marrow. Optimal lysis is...

For a family of operator inclusions with convex closed-valued right-hand sides in Banach spaces, the existence of solutions is obtained by chieey using Ky Fan's xed point principle. The main result of the paper improves Theorem 1 in 16] as well as Theorem 2.2 of 3]. Some meaningful concrete cases are also presented and discussed. KEY WORDS: operator inclusions in Banach spaces, Ky Fan's xed poi...

The inequality Ffx;fy(qs) Fx;y(s) (s 0), where q 2 (0; 1), is generalized for multivalued mappings in many directions. Using Hausdor distance S.B. Nadler in [7] introduced a generalization of Banach contraction principle in metric spaces. In [3] the de nition of probabilistic Nadler q-contraction is given. Using some results given in [12] a xed point theorem on spaces with a convex structure is...