SUMMARY This study comprises 732 newborns in the period from Dec. 15 1992 to June. 15 1993 in the neonatal ward, Bou Ali Medical Center. Of the newborns, 367 were cared for with rooming-in facilities and 365 in the nursery. Physical examinations performed at the first week, second week and the end of the 4th week showed that incidence of skin and ophthalmic infections were high in these newbor...

PIN-FORMED (PIN)-dependent auxin transport is essential for plant development and its modulation in response to the environment or endogenous signals. A NON-PHOTOTROPIC HYPOCOTYL 3 (NPH3)-like protein, MACCHI-BOU 4 (MAB4), has been shown to control PIN1 localization during organ formation, but its contribution is limited. The Arabidopsis genome contains four genes, MAB4/ENP/NPY1-LIKE1 (MEL1), M...

Cloud computing is set of resources and services offered through the Internet. Cloud services are delivered from data centers located throughout the world. Cloud computing facilitates its consumers by providing virtual resources via internet. The biggest challenge in cloud computing is the security and privacy problems caused by its multi-tenancy nature and the outsourcing of infrastructure, se...

BACKGROUND Acne is a chronic inflammatory disease of pilosebaceous units. In addition to an unpleasant appearance, it may result in scarring in some cases. Despite the introduction of different treatments, oral isotretinoin is the most effective treatment and affects all the factors involved in the pathogenesis of this disease. This study was performed on patients with acne to examine the thera...

Intercellular transport of the phytohormone auxin is a significant factor for plant organogenesis. To investigate molecular mechanisms by which auxin controls organogenesis, we analyzed the macchi-bou 4 (mab4) mutant identified as an enhancer of pinoid (pid). Although mab4 and pid single mutants displayed relatively mild cotyledon phenotypes, pid mab4 double mutants completely lacked cotyledons...

Antoine Riaud, Jean-Louis Thomas, Michael Baudoin and Olivier Bou Matar Institut d’Electronique, de Microélectronique et Nanotechnologie (IEMN), LIA LICS, Université Lille 1 and EC Lille, CNRS UMR 8520, 59652 Villeneuve d’Ascq, France Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, CNRS UMR 7588, Institut des NanoSciences de Paris (INSP), F-75005, Paris, France Abstract Despite their self-reconstruct...

A hydrostat ic weighing system is described t hat provicies inciepenci (' nt valu ('s of apparent mass with a standard deviat ion of a bou t 0.2 microgra m. The ciefi ni t ion of " inciep(, IHI<'n t" used here includes the requirement t hat t he sample under observat ion be removed from Lhe water, dried, and recleaned between measurements. This precis ion is between one a nd two orders better t...

Numerical generalized randomized Hamiltonian Monte Carlo is introduced, as a robust, easy to use and computationally fast alternative conventional Markov chain methods for continuous target distributions. A wide class of piecewise deterministic processes generalizing Randomized HMC (Bou-Rabee Sanz-Serna) by allowing state-dependent event rates defined. Under very mild restrictions, such will ha...