A6-year-old boy on maintenance treatment for acute lymphoblastic leukemia (according to mid-risk Protocol for ALL A.I.E.O.P. 9502) came to our observation because of anemia (Hb = 7 g/dL) and mild thrombocytopenia of no apparent etiology. A May-Grünwald-Giemsa stained blood smear revealed the presence of neutrophilia and rare immunocytes. Bone marrow smears showed maturation arrest of erythroid ...

Cellular morphology has a predominant place in diagnosis of hematological malignancies in spite of flow cytometry, cytogenetic and molecular biology progresses. CellaVisionDM8/96TM is automated microscope and image analysis software which are able to characterize white and red blood cells morphology and to perform platelets counts in peripheral blood smears. Validity of results is always submit...

An explicit numerical method to solve a fractional cable equation which involves two temporal Riemann-Liouville derivatives is studied. The numerical difference scheme is obtained by approximating the first-order derivative by a forward difference formula, the Riemann-Liouville derivatives by the Grünwald-Letnikov formula, and the spatial derivative by a three-point centered formula. The accura...

An evaluation of the standardised Romanowsky stain of Marshall et al. has been made in a routine haematology laboratory. It was noted that this stain had several advantages over the May-Grünwald Giemsa stain used in most British laboratories. These advantages include ease and speed of preparation, a shorter staining time, and reproducibility of results. These results are described in detail. Th...

I n March 2012, a 31-year-old male patient was diagnosed with alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma (ARMS) manifesting within the left sinus maxillaris with local lymphonodular metastases. No further metastases could be found by positron emission tomography–magnetic resonance imaging. He was treated by neo-adjuvant chemotherapy and consecutive radical endonasal resection and reconstruction in July 2012. In...

The aim of this study was to investigate diagnostic methods for cryptococcal meningitis (CM). A retrospective analysis was conducted for 31 patients with CM confirmed by etiologic detection of cerebrospinal fluid in our hospital in the past 5 years. Nineteen cases in 31 patients were confirmed with CM in the first diagnosis, with a misdiagnosis rate of 38.7%. The positive rates of cryptococcus ...

Bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) fluid cells count provides information about presence or absence of interstitial lung diseases. BAL fluid samples were taken from 50 patients hospitalized in University Hospital for Lung Diseases "Jordanovac" in Zagreb, Croatia. The samples of BAL fluid were prepared by cytocentrifuge. From each sample two cytospin were selected (C1 and C2) and after determing adequ...

We establish a general multiple recurrence theorem for an action of a nilpotent group by homeomorphisms of a compact space. This theorem can be viewed as a nilpotent version of our recent polynomial Hales-Jewett theorem ([BL2]) and contains nilpotent extensions of many known “abelian” results as special cases. 0. Introduction 0.1. The celebrated van der Waerden theorem on arithmetic progression...

09:00 – 09:55 Registration and coffee-break 09:55 – 10:00 Opening remarks 10:00 – 10:50 Emmanuel Candes (California Institute of Technology) The Dantzig Selector: Statistical Estimation when p is Larger than n 11:00 – 11:30 Coffee-break 11:30 – 12:20 Franck Barthe (Université Toulouse III) About Talagrand’s Concentration Inequality for Exponential Measures 12:30 – 14:30 Lunch break 14:30 – 15:2...

We study the switch distribution, introduced by van Erven, Grünwald and De Rooij (2012), applied to model selection and subsequent estimation. While switching was known to be strongly consistent, here we show that it achieves minimax optimal parametric risk rates up to a log logn factor when comparing two nested exponential families, partially confirming a conjecture by Lauritzen (2012) and Cav...