In the centrosymmetric title compound, [Co(C(7)H(4)NO(4))(2)(C(12)H(9)N(5))(2)(H(2)O)(2)]·2H(2)O, the Co(II) atom, located on an inversion center, is coordinated by two N atoms [Co-N = 2.155 (3) Å] and four O atoms [Co-O = 2.099 (2)-2.117 (3) Å] in a distorted octa-hedral geometry. Inter-molecular N-H⋯O, O-H⋯N and O-H⋯O hydrogen bonds link the components into a three-dimensional supramolecular ...

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SETTING In July 2005, Médecins Sans Frontières and the Ministry of Health, Kenya, implemented an integrated tuberculosis-human immunodeficiency virus (TB-HIV) programme in western Kenya. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the impact of an integrated TB-HIV programme on patient care and TB programme outcomes. DESIGN Retrospective evaluation of three time periods: before (January-June 2005), shortly after...

A new European guideline on drug-eluting stents (DES) introduces for the first time detailed information that European drug authorities should review concerning the medicinal substance that is incorporated into this type of drug-device combination product. Part I of this article discusses European requirements that apply to DES. Part II will discuss the new guideline, other stent guidelines and...

We prove that the braid group on 4 or more strands modulo its center is co-Hopfian. We then show that any injective endomorphism of these braid groups is geometric in the sense that it is induced by a homeomorphism of a punctured disk. We further prove that any injection from the braid group on n strands to the braid group on n + 1 strands is geometric (n ≥ 7). Additionally, we obtain related r...