Interest in African cardiology has been focused on its two main peculiarities. One is the welldocumented rarity of coronary thrombosis. The other is the prevalence of cardiomyopathies of unknown origin among indigenous Africans. While both are receiving much publicity their extent has been difficult to assess. In the relatively undeveloped areas, where their incidence might be of greatest inter...

where Bn, n ≥ 0, denotes the nth Bernoulli number, and where σν(n) = ∑ d|n d ν . The latter two representations in (1.1) can be established by using the Lipschitz summation formula or Fourier analysis. For these and other basic properties of Eisenstein series, see, for example, R. A. Rankin’s text [41, Chap. 6]. In Ramanujan’s notation, the three most relevant Eisenstein series are defined for ...

BACKGROUND An increased incidence of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) at weekends has been previously noted, although it has not been found in all studies. Where a weekend effect has been found it is most prominent on Sundays. AIM To identify the magnitude of this effect in British data before and after the fall in prevalence associated with the "back to sleep" campaign. METHODS Aggregat...

Methods To reach diagnosis this method uses a wide range of biological parameters providing a great deal of significant information in the context of allergy such as lymphocyte typing and protein profiles or the Th1/Th2 differentiation, as well as many bacterial and viral serologies, to substantiate the biological diagnosis and guide the therapeutic result. Within this therapy, numerous immune-...

perfection of staining methods, the results were tainted with defects. In 1932, the epochal discovery of the terminal formation of the vegetative nerve fibres, that is the terminalreticulum, was made by Stohr1) and Reiser,2) after a painstaking labor. Subsequent observations by many investigators on the subject led to a remarkable illustration of the problem. On the other hand, the sensory nerv...