Bacteriological failure with penicillin that has been used widely for years in group A beta hemolytic streptococcal (GABHS) tonsillopharyngitis is being reported as high as 30%. Because of this unresponsiveness, many different agents are being used as alternative options. We evaluated the effect of clarithromycin, amoxicillin/clavulanate (CAM), cefprozil and benzathine penicillin G (Pen G) on t...

OBJECTIVES To identify and quantify determinants of captan exposure among 74 private orchard pesticide applicators in the Agricultural Health Study (AHS). To adjust an algorithm used for estimating pesticide exposure intensity in the AHS based on these determinants and to compare the correlation of the adjusted and unadjusted algorithms with urinary captan metabolite levels. METHODS External ...

A combination of market forces, cost constraints, and other factors necessitate incremental evolution of a fully automated highway system (AHS) rather than instantaneous deployment. Thus, an understanding of the interdependencies among required AHS functional capabilities is essential for planning. This paper proposes a set of three AHS functional evolution reference models that include essenti...

Alpers-Huttenlocher syndrome (AHS), first described over 80 years ago is an autosomal recessive neurodegenerative disorder characterised by the triad of refractory seizures, neuro-developmental regression and hepatic failure. AHS is now known to be caused by mutations in the gene encoding the catalytic subunit of polymerase gamma (POLG1), an important mitochondrial DNA replication enzyme. The p...

The dominance of Western theories in an age globalization and swift technological advances, which brought to collective consciousness manifestations literary artistic genres distant geographical places that were once viewed as primitive or exotic, necessitates raising the question comparative poetics anew. During second half twentieth century, scholars such James J.Y. Liu, Earl Miner, Stephen O...

In this study, the extraction and characterization of aquatic humic substances (AHS) from two blackwater rivers in Amazon basin was carried out order to assess seasonal effects AHS structure. addition, an investigation complexing capacities (CC) structures containing metal ions CdII, NiII PbII also done. The (of AHS) done using UV-Vis, molecular fluorescence, infrared spectroscopy. Negro River ...

PURPOSE Temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) is often associated with Ammon's horn sclerosis (AHS) characterized by hippocampal cell death and dentate gyrus granule cell dispersion (GCD). Granule cells survive AHS and have been proposed to be hyperexcitable in TLE. Here we studied whether the passive excitability of granule cells correlates with the severity of AHS. METHODS We analyzed the passive me...

SIMPLIFICATION, ESTIMATION AND CLASSIFICATION OF GEOMETRIC OBJECTS by Nabil H. Mustafa Department of Computer Science Duke University