BACKGROUND Determination of Basal Energy Expenditure (BEE) is essential for planning nutritional therapy in patients with esophageal cancer. AIMS The objective of this study was to determine BEE through indirect calorimetry (IC) in patients with squamous cell carcinoma of the esophagus (SCC). METHODS Cross-sectional study involving 30 patients admitted with a diagnosis of SCC who underwent ...

BACKGROUND Atopic dermatitis (AD) is a common, complex disease that follows a chronic relapsing course and significantly affects the quality of life of patients. Skin barrier dysfunction and inflammatory processes induce and aggravate this skin condition. Proper use of an emollient for hydration is a keystone of AD treatment. Bee venom is known to have anti-inflammatory effects and has been wid...

The objectives of the study were to review bee venom immunotherapy from the patient's perspective: in particular its benefits and its problems, and to investigate any genetic tendency for bee venom hypersensitivity. A self administered, 9 item questionnaire was sent to 219 patients who had undergone either inpatient or outpatient bee venom immunotherapy at Flinders Medical Center. The clinic re...

An amplitude-optimised bit-edge equalisation (BEE) scheme is presented and compared with pulse-width modulation for mitigating intersymbol interference in high-speed backplane applications. With transmitter pre-coding and pre-emphasis, this BEE uses an adaptive LMS algorithm as a receiver error convergence engine by adjusting error derivation points. The optimality of the proposed BEE scheme is...

severe allergic reactions during specific immunotherapy may occur in the treatment of hymenoptera sting allergy. the objective of the present study was to examine the characteristics of allergic reactions during specific immunotherapy in patients with allergy towards hymenoptera venom in the iranian population. a prospective study was performed using the clinical reports of 27 patients with ana...

Understanding biodiversity distribution is a primary goal of community ecology. At a landscape scale, bee communities are affected by habitat composition, anthropogenic land use, and fragmentation. However, little information is available on local-scale spatial distribution of bee communities within habitats that are uniform at the landscape scale. We studied a bee community along with floral a...

This paper is based on swarm intelligence and chaotic dynamics for learning. We address this issue by considering the problem of path planning for mobile robots. Autonomous systems assume intelligent behavior with ability of dealing in complex and changing environments. Path planning problem, which can be studied as an optimization problem, seems to be of high importance for arising of intellig...

This report deals with a father and his son who developed acute renal failure following multiple bee stings. The renal lesion in these patients appears to be due to rhabdomyolysis caused by the bee venom. The other mechanisms are also discussed. The need for clinicians to be aware of acute renal failure as a complication of bee stings is stressed.

1 Swiss Bee Research Center, Agroscope, Bern, Switzerland, 2 Vetsuisse Faculty, Institute of Bee Health, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, GenPhySE, INRA, INPT, INP-ENVT, Université de Toulouse, Castanet Tolosan, France, 4 The Roslin Institute and Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK, 5 Bee Protection Laboratory, Department of Biology, Faculty o...