in the last half century is indubitable, but which of the suggested causes?diet, habits, presence of infective agents, etc.?are responsible for this I have, frankly, no idea. Concerning the increased frequency of the disease, the unpublished observations of the late Dr. Statham, of Cheddar, are very convincing. For many years before his death, he had been encountering a fair number of cases in ...

King (1999) has replied to our review of his book. After summarizing the issues, we will respond to the main points and a few of the minor ones. The book proposes a method for ecological inference and makes sweeping claims about its validity. According to King, his model provides realistic estimates of uncertainty, with diagnostics capable of detecting failures in assumptions. He also claims th...

King (1999) has replied to our review of his book. After summarizing the issues, we will respond to the main points and a few of the minor ones. The book proposes a method for ecological inference and makes sweeping claims about its validity. According to King, his model provides realistic estimates of uncertainty, with diagnostics capable of detecting failures in assumptions. He also claims th...

A 76-year-old man presented with fever, and pain in his right ear. Physical examination revealed tender edematous, erythema, and a few vesicles of the right ear, along with facial involvement (Picture 1, 2). Laboratory examination showed neutrophilic leukocytosis. The next day, his left ear and face showed a tender light-colored erythema (Picture 3). After treatment with intravenous ceftriaxone...

Tuftelin is an acidic protein expressed at very early stages of mouse odontogenesis. It was suggested to play a role during epithelial-mesenchymal interactions, and later, when enamel formation commences, to be involved in enamel mineralization. Tuftelin was also detected in several normal soft tissues of different origins and some of their corresponding cancerous tissues. Tuftelin is expressed...

We study the relationship between l-groups, Bézout domains, and MV -algebras. Our main motivation and starting point has been the Jaffard-Ohm correspondence between Abelian l-groups and Bézout domains ¶ μ 3 ́ Bézout domains with non-zero unit radical ¶ μ 3 ́ Unital l-groups ¶ μ 3 ́ MV -algebras ©© ©© ©© © HHHHHH ——————————– and Mundici’s equivalence between Abelian unital l-groups and MV -algebras...

The OpuA system of Bacillus subtilis is a member of the substrate-binding-protein-dependent ABC transporter superfamily and serves for the uptake of the compatible solute glycine betaine under hyperosmotic growth conditions. Here, we have characterized the nucleotide-binding protein (OpuAA) of the B.subtilis OpuA transporter in vitro. OpuAA was overexpressed heterologously in Escherichia coli a...

Human calprotectin (CP) is a metal-chelating antimicrobial protein of the innate immune response. The current working model states that CP sequesters manganese and zinc from pathogens. We report the discovery that CP chelates iron and deprives bacteria of this essential nutrient. Elemental analysis of CP-treated growth medium establishes that CP reduces the concentrations of manganese, iron and...