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Chlamydia trachomatis genital tract infections are prevalent worldwide (Stamm 2008), with 92 million new chlamydia cases occured every year: 3–4 million new cases occur every year in the US, 5 million in Western Europe, and 16 million in Sub-Saharan Africa (World Health Organization 2001; Weinstock et al., 2004). Chlamydia prevalence has been reported to range from 3%–7% among asymptomatic popu...

We would like to report a genetic screening of SDHB, SDHC, SDHD and SDHAF2 genes (hereafter abbreviated to SDHx) in patients with paragangliomas (PGL) and phaeochromocytomas (PCC) from northern Portugal. PGL and PCC are neuroendocrine tumours that can be caused by heterozygous germline loss-of-function mutations in SDHx genes (Gimenez-Roqueplo et al. 2012). The spectrum of germline SDHx mutatio...

The main goal is the early detection of disease recurrence, even if the impact of a prompt treatment on prognosis is still debated (Barth et al 1995, Atkins et al 2008, Garbe et al 2008). Several authors believe that early detection of asymptomatic metastases does not affect overall survival (Barth et al 1995, Atkins et al 2008). Others (Garbe et al 2008) showed a clear survival benefit for an ...

The transfer of heat radiation through clothing (Bröde et al., 2005; Clark & Cena, 1978; Lotens & Pieters, 1995) and the effects of moisture in different clothing layers (Bröde et al., 2008a; Havenith et al., 2008; Richards et al., 2008) have been studied separately. Also models predicting the heat gain from radiation (den Hartog et al., 2007; Lotens & Pieters, 1995) or the heat loss with wet c...

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American Journal of Botany 100(12): 1–10, 2013 ; http://www.amjbot.org/ © 2013 Botanical Society of America The establishment and survival of epiphytic orchids depend on factors such as the environmental conditions of the forest that sustain them and, perhaps most importantly, on the presence of appropriate fungi. Because orchid seeds are minute and contain few stored reserves, colonization of ...

One perspective in communication systems is to increase the spectrum utilization using cognitive radios. A cognitive radio is a network of intelligent co-existing radios which senses the environment to find the available frequency slots, white spaces, or the spectrum holes as noted in Akyildiz et al. (2008); Haykin (2005). Then, it modifies its transmission characteristics to use that particula...

This special issue focuses on “advanced scheduling strategies and Grid programming environments”, and is based on selected papers from the 6 International Workshop on Middleware for Grid Computing (MGC 2008) and 2 Latin American Grid (LAGrid 2008) workshop . The authors were invited to provide extended versions of their original papers taking into account comments and suggestions raised during ...

Over the last three decades, fluorescence spectroscopy has developed into a unique tool for probing biologically relevant systems. In particular, fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS) is now a routine measurement enabling biologists access to reaction kinetics (Wu et al. 2006; Heyduk and Niedziela-Majka 2002; Allen and Thompson 2006) and sizes of biomolecular assemblies (Pitschke et al. 1...