Taihu Lake in China has suffered from severe eutrophication over the past 20 years which is partly due to significant land use/cover change (LUCC). There is an increasing need to detect the critical watershed region that significantly affects lake water degradation, which has great significance for environmental protection. However, previous studies have obtained conflicting results because of ...

introduction: aml is the second most common leukemia in children after all. the rate of aml in 14-year-old children is reported to be 6.6 cases per million. this study reviews 40 children with aml within 5 years. these patients have been evaluated for clinical findings and overall survival. materials & methods: all patients with aml have been evaluated from 1996 to 2000 for clinical findings, a...

A model with differential susceptibility, differential infectivity (DS-DI), and age of infection is formulated in this paper. The susceptibles are divided into n groups according to their susceptibilities. The infectives are divided into m groups according to their infectivities. The total population size is assumed constant. Formula for the reproductive number is derived so that if the reprodu...

Anderson Technical, Inc. has developed rapid, semiautomated equipment for antimicrobial susceptibility testing. A total of 310 fresh clinical bacterial isolates (226 gram-negative and 75 gram-positive) were tested with the Anderson Technical system and compared with those of Micro-Media Systems, Inc. For the gram-positive organisms, 74.3% of the test pairs had identical minimum inhibitory conce...