are considerably swollen, and the pudenda. The smaller area is in the groin, is semi-lunar, and it and the larger might well have been produced by apposition of surface. M;?nsori's picture on page 440 is very like it. It has bv its constant irritation reduced her health considerably. The glands are unaffected. I have no reason to suppose it is syphilitic. She has, under natives, had enough merc...

In this paper, we show that salient regions, detected by a biologically motivated attention system, have a considerably higher repeatability than features detected by standard detectors (Harris-Laplacians and DoG features). If a scene contains a salient region, which differs in one of several possible features from the rest of the scene, the repeatability is close to 100%. In settings in which ...

This paper presents the improvement of the antimicrobial character of woven fabrics based on cotton. The woven fabrics were cleaned in oxygen plasma and treated by padding with silver chloride and titanium dioxide particles. The existence of silver and titanium on woven fabrics was evidenced by electronic microscope images (SEM, EDAX) and by flame atomic absorption spectrophotometry. The antimi...

In this paper, simple circuital techniques to design efficient pulse triggered flip-flops are presented. The proposed approach aims at considerably alleviating the detrimental effects of current contention mechanisms, occurring at critical switching nodes of the circuits. In this way, both latency and power consumption of pulse triggered flip-flops are reduced. The proposed approach is assessed...

We study the binding energy and the width of the Θ in nuclei, associated to the KN and KπN components. The first one leads to negligible contributions while the second one leads to a sizeable attraction, enough to bind the Θ in nuclei. Pauli blocking and binding effects on the KN decay reduce considerably the Θ decay width in nuclei and medium effects associated to the KπN component also lead t...

Glomus intraradices is a widespread arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus (AMF), which has been found in an extremely broad range of habitats, indicating a high tolerance for environmental factors and a generalist life history strategy. Despite this ecological versatility, not much is known about the genetic diversity of this fungal species across different habitats or over large geographic scales. A n...

IN HEALTHY SUBJECTS, AUTONOMIC CARDIOVASCULAR REGULATION VARIES CONSIDERABLY WITH SLEEP STAGE. NON-RAPID EYE MOVEMENT (NREM) SLEEP is characterized by relative autonomic stability, a dominance of parasympathetic influences to the heart, and a reduction in sympathetic efferent vasomotor tone, all of which translate into a stable low heart rate and low blood pressure.1,2 In contrast, rapid eye mo...

Application of a direct-current electrical field for very short times can serve as a practical nonthermal procedure to reduce or modify the microbial distribution in gel beads. The viability of Escherichia coli and Serratia marcescens entrapped in alginate and agarose beads decreases as the field intensity and duration of electrical field increase.

BACKGROUND The DerSimonian and Laird approach (DL) is widely used for random effects meta-analysis, but this often results in inappropriate type I error rates. The method described by Hartung, Knapp, Sidik and Jonkman (HKSJ) is known to perform better when trials of similar size are combined. However evidence in realistic situations, where one trial might be much larger than the other trials, i...

The aim of the study was to monitor present status of the Ixodes ricinus tick vertical distribution in the Krkonose Mts. (Czech Republic) and evaluate its potential changes. Two methods were used: monitoring of tick presence on dogs in 2001-2002 and direct monitoring of host-seeking ticks by flagging on two vertical transects reaching from 620 to 1270 m above sea level (a. s. l.) and from 600 t...