Violator Spaces were introduced by J. Matoušek et al. in 2008 as generalization of Linear Programming problems. Convex geometries were invented by Edelman and Jamison in 1985 as proper combinatorial abstractions of convexity. Convex geometries are defined by antiexchange closure operators. We investigate an interrelations between violator spaces and closure spaces and show that violator spaces ...

BACKGROUND The effect of adjunctive heparin for primary angioplasty in patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) is not well established, so the authors investigated the effect of early heparin administration in the emergency room (ER) on initial patency of the infarct-related artery (IRA) and on the clinical outcome in STEMI patients. METHODS AND RESULTS One hundred and twenty...

objectives: the onset of multiple sclerosis in the majority of the cases occurs as a clinically isolated syndrome (cis). we sought to assess serum levels of 25-hydroxyvitamin d (25-ohd) in cis patients and healthy controls. methods: in this cross-sectional study 40 patients (36 women and 4 men) with cis manifesting as a single isolated optic neuritis and 40 age- and sex-matched healthy controls...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to determine if granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) is normally present in amniotic fluid and then to determine if amniotic-fluid G-CSF levels are affected by labor and intrauterine infection. METHODS Amniotic fluid was collected from 35 patients in 4 groups: no labor, early labor, late labor, and labor plus chorioamnionitis. G-CSF levels were...

BACKGROUND Acetaminophen (APAP)-induced acute liver failure (ALF) is associated with significant mortality due to intracranial hypertension (ICH), a result of cerebral edema (CE) and astrocyte swelling. Brain-type fatty acid-binding protein (FABP7) is a small (15 kDa) cytoplasmic protein abundantly expressed in astrocytes. The aim of this study was to determine whether serum FABP7 levels early ...

BACKGROUND In age-related macular degeneration (AMD) the complement system is thought to be activated by chronic oxidative damage with genetic variants identified in the alternative pathway as susceptibility factors. However, the involvement of the lectin pathway of complement, a key mediator of oxidative damage, is controversial. This study investigated whether mannose-binding lectin (MBL) lev...

Eight spring wheat cultivars were evaluated under three heat stress conditions (early, late and very late) in order to identify suitable cultivars to develop heattolerant genotypes resistant to future global warming. Results from the study indicate that stress did not negatively affect flag leaf area in ‘Prodip’ and ‘Sufi’, flag leaf dry matter partitioning in ‘Prodip’, ‘BARI Gom-26’ and ‘S...

This study presents calcareous nannofossils biostratigraphy of the Campanian‒Danian interval at the Gurpi Formation in the southwest of Ilam Province, in the Zagros Basin. The studied sequence of the Gurpi Formation mainly consists of marly shale and limestones. The thickness of Gurpi Formation was measured as approximately 230 m. Forty-five species belonging to twenty-eight genera were recorde...

BACKGROUND The aim of the present study was to determine whether the parameters of cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMRI) might correlate with early ST-segment resolution (STR) after primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). METHODS AND RESULTS CMRI was performed in 45 STEMI patients (age: 56.6+/-13.0 years) at 8.2+/-8.0 days (early pha...