Systemic mastocytosis is characterized by bone marrow involvement, which requires a bone marrow biopsy for diagnostic work-up. We questioned whether bone marrow involvement could be predicted using biochemical markers. We selected patients with various symptoms suggestive of indolent systemic mastocytosis, of whom 63 ultimately had bone marrow involvement. Patients suspected of aggressive masto...

Five cases of lymphocytic meningitis are described where a Bromide Partition Test was performed and proved positive at levels usually considered consistent with tuberculous meningitis. Three of these cases were ultimately shown to have herpes simplex viral encephalitis, one had Listeria monocytogenes in the CSF and the fifth patient recovered without treatment and was thought to have had a vira...

This paper presents research conducted using a scenario test of a facial recognition authentication system. The goal of the research was to test the hypothesis that a facial recognition authentication system could be integrated into an existing Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) system in an office, and that the system could perform an access control function at the levels of false acceptance and...

This paper presents investigate the therm BackScattered Diffract with centimetric grai placement and strain fields stitutive modelling of crystal Image Correlation (DIC) and Infrared Thermography (IRT) methods to anical behavior of an aluminum at the microstructural scale. Electron SD) is used to characterize the microstructure of a 3 mm thick specimen ion (EB n size. This study combines the fo...

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Lucy-n is a language for programming networks of processes communicating through bounded buffers. A dedicated type system, termed a clock calculus, automatically computes static schedules of the processes and the sizes of the buffers between them. In this article, we present a new algorithm which solves the subtyping constraints generated by the clock calculus. The advantage of this algorithm i...

An early onset idiopathic scoliosis refers to idiopathic deformity that presents itself from birth to ten years of age and includes an infantile type (identified from birth to three years of age) and a juvenile type (identified from three to ten years of age). In contrast to adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (identified from ten years of age to the age of skeletal maturity), the juvenile idiopath...