The present study sought to determine the spectrum of diseases associated with subnormal concentrations of serum cobalamin in cats undergoing investigation of suspected gastrointestinal problems. The solid-phase boil radioassay (RA) for cobalamin employed in the present study was immunologically specific, precise, and accurate, with a sensitivity of 15 pg/mL. The RA yielded results that strongl...

In this paper we establish some subnormal embeddings of groups into groups with additional properties; in particular embeddings of countable groups into 2-generated groups with some extra properties. The results obtained are generalizations of theorems of P. Hall, R. Dark, B. Neumann, Hanna Neumann, G. Higman on embeddings of that type. Considering subnormal embeddings of finite groups into fin...

Various theorems on lifting strong commutants of unbounded sub-normal (as well as formally subnormal) operators are proved. It is shown that the strong symmetric commutant of a closed symmetric operator S lifts to the strong commutant of some tight selfadjoint extension of S. Strong symmetric commutants of orthogonal sums of subnormal operators are investigated. Examples of (unbounded) irreduci...

Let H be a separable, infinite dimensional complex Hilbert space and let B(H) be the algebra of bounded linear operators on H. An operator T∈ B(H) is said to be normal if T ∗T = TT ∗, subnormal if T is the restriction of a normal operator (acting on a Hilbert space K ⊇ H) to an invariant subspace, and hyponormal if T ∗T ≥ TT ∗. The Bram-Halmos criterion for subnormality states that an operator ...

Optic nerve hypoplasia is a non-progressive condition characterised by subnormal vision and a subnormal number of optic nerve axons. It may be unilateral or bilateral, isolated or combined with other defects. Analysis of fundus photographs from a series of 7 patients with a stationary abnormality of different degrees showed that the functional defects could be closely correlated with defects in...

When the Scott Report on the training of staff in training centres for the mentally subnormal was published in 1962, it marked an already discernible turning away from a mainly medical concept of care and occupation for the severely subnormal, towards an educational concept of maximum development for the individual. 'Education', it said, '... does not exclude useful training but, on the other h...

An aetiological study of mentally handicapped children in Edinburgh has provided an opportunity for assessing the prevalence of mental handicap in this area and the distribution of handicapped children by severity of defect and clinical type. A definite cause of mental handicap is found in only a minority of cases. Nevertheless, any aetiological investigation must begin with an attempt to class...