Studies were performed on four patients undergoing intracranial operation during the induction and reversal of surface hypothermia to 30 °C. Oxygen uptake decreased an average of 26 per cent from 34° to 30°C to a mean value of 48 per cent of predicted basal uptake. At the same time, cardiac output decreased only 11.5 per cent, resulting in a consistent rise in calculated mixed venous oxygen sat...

The Double Face of Janus: A Historical Account of the Emergence of Bone Marrow Transplantation Camilla Scanlan*1, Ian Kerridge 1, 2 1 Centre for Values, Ethics & the Law in Medicine, University of Sydney NSW, Australia 2 Department of Hematology, Royal North Shore Hospital, St Leonards, NSW, Australia Corresponding author: Dr. Camilla Scanlan, Centre for Values, Ethics & the Law in Medicine, Un...

We propose using a feature extraction scheme, Dis-criminant Component Analysis, for face recognition. This scheme decomposes a signal into orthogonal bases such that for each base there is an eigenvalue representing the discriminatory power of projection in that direction. The bases and eigenvalues are obtained by iteratively applying Fisher's Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA). We illustrate t...

1. Kahr WH, Hinckley J, Li L et al. Mutations in NBEAL2, encoding a BEACH protein, cause gray platelet syndrome. Nat Genet 2011: 43 (8): 738–740. 2. Albers CA, Cvejic A, Favier R et al. Exome sequencing identifies NBEAL2 as the causative gene for gray platelet syndrome. Nat Genet 2011: 43 (8): 735–737. 3. Gunay-Aygun M, Falik-Zaccai TC, Vilboux T et al. NBEAL2 is mutated in gray platelet syndro...

The aim of this study was to assess, whether polymerase chain reaction (PCR) allows sensitive screening of treatment failure suspicions in areas, where drug resistance against African animal trypanosomosis (AAT) appears to be a problem. PCR was used to detect trypanosome infections prior to, 14 and 28 days after controlled treatment of 738 cattle from 10 villages in Kénédougou, Burkina Faso wit...