To evaluate the efficacy and safety of tap water iontophoresis in the treatment of severe idiopathic palmar hyperhidrosis, nine Chinese patients with severe palmar hyperhidrosis that had failed to respond to topical aluminium chloride were given 6 weeks' treatment with tap water iontophoresis at the Social Hygiene Service, Department of Health, Hong Kong. The reduction in sweat output was asses...

We develop the basic theory of hod mice below the Largest Suslin Axiom (LSA), which says that the largest Suslin cardinal is a member of the Solovay sequence. We also prove comparison theorem for such hod mice in the context of AD+. This is the first paper in planned sequence of three papers that eventually will establish that Mouse Set Conjecture holds provided there is no inner model satisfyi...

— We give a proof, based on the Poincaré inequality, of the symmetric property (τ) for the Gaussian measure. If f :Rd → R is continuous, bounded from below and even, we define Hf(x) = infy f(x+y)+ 1 2 |y|2 and we have ∫ e−f dγd ∫ e dγd 1. This property is equivalent to a certain functional form of the BlaschkeSantaló inequality, as explained in a paper by Artstein, Klartag and Milman. RÉSUMÉ. —...

Laser removal of biodeteriogen layers warrants detailed studies due to the advantages it brings with respect to mechanical elimination or the use of biocides. We have investigated elimination of biological crusts on dolomite stones from heritage sites in central Spain. The samples were colonized by epilithic crustose lichens of different species, such as Caloplaca sp. and Verrucaria nigrescens....

Usnea Adans. is a somewhat rare lichen in South Korea, and, in nearly two decades, no detailed taxonomic or revisionary study has been conducted. This study was based on the specimens deposited in the lichen herbarium at the Korean Lichen Research Institute, and the samples were identified using information obtained from recent literature. In this study, a total of eight species of Usnea, inclu...

In this paper we demonstrate methods of improving both the recall and the precision of automatic methods for extraction of hyponymy (IS A) relations from free text. By applying latent semantic analysis (LSA) to filter extracted hyponymy relations we reduce the rate of error of our initial pattern-based hyponymy extraction by 30%, achieving precision of 58%. Applying a graph-based model of noun-...

In a series of multiple-regression analyses conducted on the French part of the Dundee corpus, the time spent inspecting a target word in a given sentence was found to depend on its degree of semantic relatedness (as assessed in the LSA framework) to two content words belonging to a prior part of the sentence, and located at varying distances to the left of the target. However, only verb primes...

O estudo de Trattinnickia burserifolia levou ao isolamento dos triterpenos conhecidos ursanos α-amirenona, α-amirina, 3-epi-α-amirina, 3α,16β-diidroxiurs-12-eno; oleananos β-amirenona, βamirina, 3-epi-β-amirina, 3α,16β-diidroxiolean-12-eno; tirucalanos ácidos 3α-hidroxitirucal-8,24dien-21-óico, 3α-hidroxitirucal-7,24-dien-21-óico, e 3-oxotirucal-8,24-dien-21-óico; damaranos dammarenediol-II e 3...

Maytham S. Ahmed 1,2,*, Azah Mohamed 1, Raad Z. Homod 3 and Hussain Shareef 4 1 Department of Electrical, Electronic and System Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Built Environments, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi, Selangor 43600, Malaysia; [email protected] 2 General Directorate of Electrical Energy Production-Basrah, Ministry of Electricity, Basrah 61001, Iraq 3 Department o...

A. G. Greenwald and H. G. Shulman (see record 1974-10326-001) found that 2 tasks characterized by ideomotor (IM) compatibility could be perfectly timeshared (i.e., performed simultaneously without mutual interference). The 2 tasks were pronouncing "A" or "B" in response to hearing those letter names, and making a manual left or right response to seeing a left- or right-positioned arrow. M.-C. L...