objective: lc/na system is activator of hypothalamic–pituitar–adrenal (hpa) axis and cold stress triggers an equally robust increase in plasma na. increased lhrh content probably due to absence or decrease of ne release from the lc and positive feedback action of e2 on lh secretion show that in late proestrous phase na, lh and e2 have a strong link. this study was conducted to evaluate the effe...

One of the main challenges of developing self-adaptive systems in open environments comes from uncertain self-adaptation requirements due to the unpredictability of environment changes and its co-existence with well-defined self-adaptation requirements in self-adaptive systems. This paper presents an integrated approach that combines off-line and on-line self-adaptation together in a unified te...

BACKGROUND Extracapsular extension (ECE) of disease from cervical lymph nodes (LNs) is an important prognostic factor for head and neck cancers; moreover, the presence of ECE has been shown to be a criterion for the addition of chemotherapy to postoperative radiation. METHODS We reviewed the frequency of ECE in the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) registry database, particul...

The age and growth of the dusky grouper, Epinephelus marginatus, in the Balearic Islands (western Mediterranean) were studied by otolith analysis from a sample of 358 specimens ranging in total length (LT) from 6 6 to 105 6 cm. The specimens came from commercial artisanal and recreational spear fisheries between 1999 and 2003. Otoliths grew asymmetrically throughout the range of LT studied, sho...

leigh syndrome is a severe progressive neurodegenerative disorder with different clinical presentationsthat usually becomes apparent in the first year of life and rarely in late childhood and elderly years. it is causedby failure of mitochondrial respiratory chain and often results in regression of both mental and motor skills and might even lead to death. in some of the inherited neurodegenera...

On the semantics of determiners in a rich type-theoretical framework The variation of word meaning according to the context led us to enrich the type system of our syntactical and semantic analyser of French based on categorial grammars and Montague semantics (or lambda-DRT). The main advantage of a deep semantic analyse is too represent meaning by logical formulae that can be easily used e.g. ...