The mechanism by Hart and Mas-Colell (1996) for non-transferable utility (NTU) games is generalized so that a coalition structure among players is taken into account. The new mechanism yields the Owen value for transferable utility (TU) games with coalition structure as well as the consistent value (Maschler and Owen 1989, 1992) for NTU games with trivial coalition structure. Furthermore, we ob...

DE VOS, A.]. & DOBSON, LYNNE D. Eimeria chinchillae DeVos & Vander Westhuizen, 1968 and other Eimeria spp. from three South African rodent species. Onderstepoort ]. vet. Res., 37 (4), 185-190 (1970). Eimeria chinchillae DeVos & Vander Westhuizen, 1968, an organism originally described from the chinchilla and subsequently shown to be transmissible to other rodents, was found to occur naturally i...

By A. Jefferis Turner, m.d. (Intercolonial Medical Journal of Australasia.)?After describing the spread of anchylostomiasis in Australia, Dr. Turner gives his experience of treatment. He had disappointing results with calomel, santonin, male fern, naphthalin, naphthol, thymol, and other drugs. Ordinary doses of thymol, such as five grains thrice daily, he had found utterly useless; but on readi...

INTRODUCTION The clinical use of serial quantitative computed tomography (CT) to characterize lung disease and guide the optimization of mechanical ventilation in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is limited by the risk of cumulative radiation exposure and by the difficulties and risks related to transferring patients to the CT room. We evaluated the effects of tube curre...

OBJECTIVES To compare the pro-inflammatory cytokine profiles and the cytokine kinetics in patients with secondary macrophage activation syndrome (MAS) due to systemic-onset juvenile idiopathic arthritis (s-JIA) and in both active and inactive disease states of s-JIA (but no MAS), with those demonstrated in EBV-induced haemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) and Kawasaki disease (KD), and to i...

When [3H]inositol-labeled carrot (Daucus carota L.) cells were treated with 10 or 25 microM wasp venom peptide mastoparan or the active analog Mas-7 there was a rapid loss of more than 70% of [3H]phosphatidylinositol-4-monophosphate (PIP) and [3H]phosphatidylinositol-4,5-bisphosphate (PIP2) and a 3- and 4-fold increase in [3H]inositol-1,4-P2 and [3H]inositol-1,4,5-P3, respectively. The identity...

Introduction: This study aims to provide a comparative evaluation of the clinical and paraclinical diagnosis in patients with acute appendicitis. Methods: After investigation, the cases of 200 patients with symptoms of acute appendicitis who had referred to Shahid Beheshti Hospital of Yasuj-Iran in 2018 year and underwent surgery were examined. Variables of age and sex, pathology results, ultr...

A peptide that strongly stimulates juvenile hormone (JH) biosynthesis in vitro by the corpora allata (CA) was purified from methanolic brain extracts of adult Spodoptera frugiperda. Using HPLC separation followed by Edman degradation and mass spectrometry, the peptide was identified as Manduca sexta allatotropin (Mas-AT). Treating the CA from adult S. frugiperda with synthetic Mas-AT (at 10(-6)...

There has been a great interest in using multiagent systems (MAS) in a wide variety of applications in recent years, especially Webbased applications such as those in the field of electronic commerce. Agent-oriented methodologies, development environment and tools have become a priority for the development of large-scale agent-based systems. The work we present here belongs to the disciplines o...

A multiagent system (MAS) structures a software system as a set of autonomous agents that interact through a shared environment. Software architecture is generally considered as the structures of a system which comprise software elements and the relationships among the elements. So there is a clear connection between MAS and software architecture. In our research, we study situated MAS, i.e. sy...