INTRODUCTION The relationship between brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) increase in acute pulmonary embolism (PE) and the increase in mortality and morbidity has frequently been suggested in small studies but its global prognostic performance remains largely undefined. We performed a systematic review and meta-analysis of data to examine the prognostic value of elevated BNP for short-term all-cau...

How likely is that a randomly given (non-) deterministic finite automaton recognizes no word? A quick reflection seems to indicate that not too many finite automata accept no word; but, can this intuition be confirmed? In this paper we offer a statistical approach which allows us to conclude that for automata, with a large enough number of states, the probability that a given (non-) determinist...

The nature is composed of infinite process, and each process is surely deterministic (out of mention for the micro process on the level of quantum physics, which is under the uncertainty principle of Heisenberg, 1927), but affected by uncountable number of factors. What we are trying to do with modeling is to find the most dominating factors on a process and to simplify the process with an unde...

Dans le but d'étudier les aspects cliniques, radiologiques et évolutifs de la pneumonie tuberculeuse (PT) au Maroc, pays à forte prévalence de tuberculose, une étude rétrospective s'étalant de Janvier au Septembre 2013 a été menée au service de phtisiologie femme de l'hôpital Moulay Youssef de Rabat. 27 cas de PT ont été diagnostiqués, dont 2 VIH séropositives. La fièvre et l'altération de l'ét...

INTRODUCTION Syphilis is a sexually transmitted disease, remaining under-estimated, under-recognized due to the variability of clinical presentation and ageing of the population with chronic comorbidities. Hence, some manifestations of the past are nowadays superimposed on the course of chronic diseases. Clinical suspicion should be guided by past medical history of contracting any other sexual...

Optimal device selection between one (VR) and two-lead (DR) ICDs for patients without conventional indications pacing remain contentious. Traditional one-lead do not provide atrial diagnostics. Alternatively, offer potential advantages over defibrillators but the addition of an lead may increase procedural cost risk complications. A third option, BIOTRONIK’s hybrid (DX) is a single-lead with fl...

Eliot goes on to discount the idea of innate limitation, but while she wrote in 1872, the leaders of European anthropometry were trying to measure "with scientific certitude" the inferiority of women. Anthropometry, or measurement of the human body, is not so fashionable a field these days, but it dominated the human sciences for much of the nineteenth century and remained popular until intelli...

In presenting the data concerning altered states of consciousness in an even-handed manner, I have found that I cannot at the outset assume that materialism is the correct theory of reality. As demonstrated by survey data, the beliefs about consciousness and reality of academics and scientists who could write about consciousness in the academic literature range along a material-transcendent dim...

The supraordinal mammalian clade Afrotheria was first recognized in its entirety based on DNA analysis dating to the mid-1990s. Since then, this ‘‘African clade’’, which includes proboscideans, sirenians, hyracoids, tubulidentates, elephant-shrews, tenrecs and chrysochlorids, has been supported by numerous molecular and genomic studies. According to these molecular inferences, the origin of cro...