Electrocardiographic examination of rabbits during the anaphylactic reaction revealed marked and various changes of the heart's activity in twenty-two out of twenty-four animals. Changes occurred in fatal as well as in non-fatal cases, after the vagi were cut as well as when they were intact. Cardiac disturbances are thus a practically constant result of serum anaphylaxis in the rabbit. It ther...

Effective disease surveillance is critical to the functioning of health systems. Traditional approaches are, however, limited in their ability to deliver timely information. Internet-based surveillance systems are a promising approach that may circumvent many of the limitations of traditional health surveillance systems and provide more intelligence on cases of infection, including cases from t...

Using an effective field theory framework we reconsider the problem of radiative corrections from compact dimensions to the 4D gauge couplings. We evaluate the general structure of one-loop contribution from Kaluza-Klein states to the 4D gauge couplings, in models with one-and two-dimensional orbifold compactifications. The calculation includes the additional effect of a non-vanishing constant ...

To define a set of quality indicators that should be routinely measured and evaluated to confirm that the clinical outcome reaches the requested standards, Eusoma has organised a workshop during which twenty four experts from different disciplines have reviewed the international literature and selected the main process and outcome indicators available for quality assurance of breast cancer care...

ISSUE ADDRESSED The study investigates whether the perceived sun protective practices of the peer group during a day-time recreational boat trip were associated with the sun protective attitudes and behaviours of individuals on the same boat. METHODS Cross-sectional survey of recreational boat users conducted in Townsville, North Queensland, during the summer of 2003. One hundred and twenty-f...

to the contagiousness of leprosy. From the reports before us, it appears that thirty-six medical officers are of opinion that the disease is contagious, twenty-six are doubtful on this point, and twenty-four deny that leprosy can be communicated from one person to another. The majority, therefore, are in favour of contagion ; but it is expressly stated in several of the reports that " leprosy i...

BACKGROUND In recent years, Iran has made significant developments in the field of health sciences. However, the question is whether this considerable increase has affected public health. The research budget has always been negligible and unsustainable in developing countries. Hence, using the Payback Framework, we conducted this study to evaluate the impact of health research in Iran. METHOD...

We discuss the relation between partonic distributions near the phase space boundary and Wilson loop expectation values calculated along paths partially lying on the light-cone. Due to additional light-cone singularities, multiplicative renormalizability for these expectation values is lost. Nevertheless we establish the renormalization group equation for the light like Wilson loops and show th...