conclusions hcv coinfection, older age and ast were associated with lf in patients with hiv infection. objectives the aim of this cross-sectional study was to identify factors associated with liver fibrosis (lf) in patients with hiv monoinfection and hiv-hcv coinfection. patients and methods we analyzed lf by transient elastometry ([te], fibroscan) in three groups of patients (hiv, hiv-hcv and ...

The cellular basis for the laminar structure of the central nucleus of the inferior colliculus has been investigated by computer-assisted 3-D reconstruction of Golgi impregnated dendritic arbors, sampled from serial sections of resin embedded material of adult rat. Two types of flattened neurone, defined here as flat (F) and less flat (LF), are described as contributing to the pattern. The dend...

Experiments were conducted to quantify downstream heating from inclined fires generated by a 25 cm wide, 5 deep gaseous line burner. A variety of orientation angles (?) and fire heat-release rates (HRR) employed simulating, at reduced scale, the dynamics two-dimensional (2-D) flame spread as found in wildland or building fires. The total heat flux q?f?(x) nearly-adiabatic surface ahead burner w...

BACKGROUND Despite improvements in neonatal heart surgery, neurologic complications continue to occur from low-flow cardiopulmonary bypass (LF-CPB) and deep hypothermic circulatory arrest (DHCA). Desflurane confers neuroprotection against ischemia at normothermia and for DHCA. This study compared neurologic outcome of a desflurane-based with a fentanyl-based anesthetic for LF-CPB. METHODS Thi...

Objectives. Our main objective was to describe the effect of foot and hand (F&H) massage on the autonomic nervous system (ANS) activity in children hospitalized in a pediatric intensive care unit (PICU); the secondary objectives were to assess the relationship between ANS function and the clinical severity and to explore the effects of repeated massage sessions on the ANS. Methods. Design was a...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Methotrexate (MTX) safety is questioned by the risk of inducing liver fibrosis (LF). As transient elastography (FibroScan®) is an effective non-invasive technique to evaluate LF, our aims were to assess LF in MTX-treated patients, to evaluate LF regarding treatment duration and cumulative dose, and to determine differences depending on the underlying disease. PATIENTS AND ...

A semigroup whose bi-ideals and quasi-ideals coincide is called a -semigroup. The full transformation semigroup on a set X and the semigroup of all linear transformations of a vector space V over a field F into itself are denoted, respectively, by T(X) and LF(V). It is known that every regular semigroup is a -semigroup. Then both T(X) and LF(V) are -semigroups. In 1966, Magill introduced and st...

A semigroup whose bi-ideals and quasi-ideals coincide is called a -semigroup. The full transformation semigroup on a set X and the semigroup of all linear transformations of a vector space V over a field F into itself are denoted, respectively, by T(X) and LF(V). It is known that every regular semigroup is a -semigroup. Then both T(X) and LF(V) are -semigroups. In 1966, Magill introduced and st...