BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES Dietary inadequacy is common in developing countries and so is in immune-deficient HIV infected individuals. Hence, an assessment of dietary patterns was done among a group of HIV infected individuals and compared with recommended dietary allowances. METHODS One hundred consecutive HIV infected individuals were interviewed from the Immunodeficiency Clinic of a tertiary...

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Medulloblastoma is a malignant pediatric brain tumor. Current treatment following patient stratification into standard and high-risk groups using clinical features has improved survival. However, a subset of patients with standard risk features have unanticipated aggressive disease, underscoring the need for a better understanding of tumor biology and the development of novel treatments. Poor d...

The importance and value of Jacob Bernoulli’s work was eloquently stated by Andrĕı Andreyevich Markov during a speech presented to the Russian Academy of Science on December 1, 1913. Marking the bicentennial anniversary of the Law of Large Numbers, Markov’s words remain pertinent one hundred years later: In concluding this speech, I return to Jacob Bernoulli. His biographers recall that, follow...

Clustering is a common task in the field of cheminformatics. A key parameter that needs to be set for nonhierarchical clustering methods, such as k-means, is the number of clusters, k. Traditionally, the value of k is obtained by performing the clustering with different values of k and selecting that value that leads to the optimal clustering. In this study, we describe an approach to selecting...

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F (Factor) VIIIa binds to phospholipid membranes during formation of the FXase complex. Free thiols from cysteine residues of isolated FVIIIa A1 and A2 subunits and the A3 domain of the A3C1C2 subunit were labelled with PyMPO maleimide {1-(2-maleimidylethyl)-4-[5-(4-methoxyphenyl)-oxazol-2-yl]pyridinium methanesulfonate} or fluorescein (fluorescence donors). Double mutations of the A3 domain (C...

In congestive heart failure (CHF), muscle sympathetic activity (MSNA) is greatly elevated, but our laboratory has shown that single muscle vasoconstrictor neurons primarily fire only once per cardiac interval, as in normal subjects (Elam M and Macefield VG. J Appl Physiol 91: 717-724, 2001; Macefield VG, Rundqvist B, Sverrisdottir YB, Wallin BG, and Elam M. Circulation 100: 1708-1713, 1999). In...

Electron microscopic (EM) studies were performed to clarify the interactions of membrane proteins in the red blood cell membrane structure in situ of a homozygous patient with total deficiency of protein 4.1 who carried a point mutation of the downstream translation initiation codon (AUG --> AGG) of the protein 4.1 gene [the 4.1 (-) Madrid; Dalla Venezia et al, J Clin Invest 90:1713, 1992]. Imm...

Dealing with ambiguous data is a challenge in Science in general and geometry processing in particular. One route of choice to extract information from such data consists of replacing the ambiguous input by a continuum, typically a one-parameter family, so as to mine stable geometric and topological features within this family. This work follows this spirit and introduces a novel framework to h...