The term “childhood cancer” is used to designate neoplasms arising before 15 years of age (Stewart and Wild, 2014). These represent between 0.5% and 4.6% of the total number of cancer cases worldwide, being greater in countries with low human development (Stewart and Wild, 2014). Between 2008 and 2014, there was an increase of approximately 3,000 cases of childhood cancer world wide (Stewart an...

Türk-İslam kültüründe bilinmeyeni ve geleceği öğrenmeye yönelik çeşitli uygulamaları konu edinen ilimler vardır. Bu ilimlerden biri de ilm-i nücumdur. İlm-i nücum zaman falcılıkla ilişkilendirilip gerçek dışı ilim olarak görülmesine rağmen toplumu derinden etkilemiştir. Yıldızların insanların yaptıkları işler üzerinde etkili olduğuna dair inançlar bu ilme bağlı “saatname” adı verilen türün meyd...

Title of Dissertation: POPULATION DECLINES AND GENETIC VARIATION: EFFECTS OF SERIAL BOTTLENECKS Taylor Eilers Callicrate, Doctor of Philosophy, 2015 Dissertation directed by: Associate Professor Jiuzhou Song Department of Animal & Avian Sciences Adjunct Professor Robert C. Fleischer Department of Biology Islands foster unique biodiversity, yet also present biogeographic limitations that impose ...

a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: New product adoption Exporter–importer relationship Technology–environment–organization framework International marketing From an international business setting, this paper investigates how importers determine new product adoptions and how exporters diffuse new products to offshore markets through importers. Using the technology–environment–or-ganization framewor...

La maladie de Wilson est une maladie rare autosomique récessive due à une diminution de l'élimination du cuivre dans la bile et son accumulation toxique dans les organes en particulier le cerveau, le foie, la cornée et le rein d'où son hétérogénéité clinique. Les manifestations ophtalmologiques représentent des critères diagnostiques importants. Le traitement précoce permet une réversibilité de...

Causes of Melanosis other than Chlorpromazine THE pathological deposition of melanin is rarely seen in the tissues of the eye. Normally, small collections of melanin are sometimes seen in the eyes of Caucasians where the ciliary vessels pierce the sclera near the limbus. Larger collections of melanocytes form a benign naevus which may invade the cornea, or there may be multiple collections of m...

Emily S. Birkholz, MD, Thomas A. Oetting, MS, MD July 28, 2009 Chief Complaint: Referral for evaluation of Kayser-Fleischer Rings History of Present Illness: The patient was a 25 year old male who had been experiencing a right-sided subcostal tenderness and increasing fatigue for the last several months. He also had noticed dark urine, jaundice and a 60 pound weight loss. The patient was admitt...

Purpose — to discover peculiarities of Wilson disease course in children dependently on the variant liver affection. Materials and methods. Anamnesis clinical paraclinical with consideration affection severity have been studied 50 aged 5–17 years. Results. It was estimated that 52% had a form chronic hepatitis minimal symptoms, 44% patients cirrhosis predominant signs edematous ascitic syndrome...

Abstract A rare genetical autosomal recessive disorder called Wilson disease (WD) is characterized by excess copper being deposited in numerous major organs, mainly the liver and brain causing hepatic, neurological mental symptoms. WD caused mutations gene ATP7B. Although not always present, Kayser-Fleischer (KF) ring pathognomonic indication of deposition corneas eyes. The condition worsens wi...