BACKGROUND In Bihar State, proportion of fully immunized children was only 19% ;in Coverage Evaluation Survey of 2005. In October 2007, a special campaign called Muskaan Ek Abhiyan (The Smile Campaign) was launched under National Rural Health Mission to give a fillip to the immunization program. OBJECTIVES To evaluate improvement in the performance and coverage of the Routine Immunization Pro...

Oral cancer, mainly oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC), is one of the ten most common cancers in the world (Scully and Bedi, 2000) and the disease is predicted to increase in prevalence during the next several decades (Sciubba, 2001). In Thailand, the incidence for the disease is the highest in the southern part of the country where it is ranked the second in males and the sixth in females amo...

The thiouracil derivative PF-06282999 [2-(6-(5-chloro-2-methoxyphenyl)4-oxo-2-thioxo-3,4-dihydropyrimidin-1(2H)-yl)acetamide] is an irreversible inactivator of myeloperoxidase and is currently in clinical trials for the potential treatment of cardiovascular diseases. Concerns over idiosyncratic toxicity arising from bioactivation of the thiouracil motif to reactive species in the liver have bee...

These notes give a brief summary of the major techniques of the class, and an example for each. The descriptions are kept short so that this can be a useful, quick reference. 1. Executive Summary We record below the types of equations we can solve. In the next sections we give more details, including conditions on the functions and, if possible, explicit solutions. This section is meant to be a...

Leg 209 was devoted to drilling mantle peridotites and associated gabbroic rocks along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge from 14° to 16°N. This area was identified at the 1996 Workshop on Oceanic Lithosphere and Scientific Drilling into the 21st Century (OL Workshop) as the ideal region for drilling of a strike line of short holes to sample the upper mantle in a magma-starved portion of a slow-spreading r...

The purpose of this presentation is to outline the Museum Multimedia (MM) experience in Russia. I am quite not sure wether all my colleagues experts and museum community in West Europe and America are intimately familiar with Russian experience in this sphere and I am pleased to have this opportunity to fill the gap. I will mainly focus on the general picture for some more reports with detailed...

To determine the relationship between the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) encephalitis (HIVE) and diffuse poliodystrophy in the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome dementia complex, we examined the neuropathologic features in brain autopsy tissue specimens of HIV-1Yinfected patients with (n = 11) or without HIVE (n = 9). The brains were free of opportunistic diseases and major cerebr...

The introduction of TNF inhibitors more than a decade ago marked the beginning of an exciting era in the management of RA. Despite the development of biologics with alternative modes of action, TNF inhibitors remain today the most widely prescribed class of biologics for RA. However, tuberculosis (TB) is a major safety concern with TNF inhibitors. The risk of active TB is increased up to 56-fol...

Nearly every major process in a cell is carried out by assemblies of multiple dynamically interacting protein molecules. To study multi-protein interactions within such molecular machineries, we have developed a fluorescence microscopy method called three-chromophore fluorescence resonance energy transfer (3-FRET). This method allows analysis of three mutually dependent energy transfer processe...