Although Superintendent of Lingfield Colony for 30 years, Dr. Fox was always firm in his belief that colony life was only essential for a minority of patients, and even for them that it should only be regarded as a period for stabilization and drug adjustment. It was one of his greatest satisfactions that the last 10 or 15 years showed such startling changes in drug therapy. He often said that ...

In this paper we describe RAPOSA, a question answering system for Portuguese, and we present detailed results of the participation in the QA@CLEF 2007 evaluation task. We explain how we improved our system since the last participation in QA@CLEF, by expanding the set of rules associated with Question Parsing and Answering Extraction. We will finish by pointing lines for future work, and by intr...

The Forkhead or Fox gene family encodes putative transcription factors. There are at least four Fox genes in yeast, 16 in Drosophila melanogaster (Dm) and 42 in humans. Recently, vertebrate Fox genes have been classified into 17 groups named FoxA to FoxQ. Here, we extend this analysis to invertebrates, using available sequences from D. melanogaster, Anopheles gambiae (Ag), Caenorhabditis elegan...

The RAPD-PCR technique was applied to identify genetic markers able to distinguish between four canid species: the arctic fox (Alopex lagopus), red fox (Vulpes vulpes), Chinese raccoon dog (Nyctereutes procyonoides procyonoides) and six breeds of the domestic dog (Canis familiaris). A total of 29 ten-nucleotide arbitrary primers were screened for their potential use in the differentiation of th...

The precise regulation of many alternative splicing (AS) events by specific splicing factors is essential to determine tissue types and developmental stages. However, the molecular basis of tissue-specific AS regulation and the properties of splicing regulatory networks (SRNs) are poorly understood. Here we comprehensively predict the targets of the brain- and muscle-specific splicing factor Fo...

BACKGROUND Follicular Unit Transplantation (FUT) is performed using large numbers of naturally occuring individual follicular units obtained by single-strip harvesting and stereo-microscopic dissection. Donor wound scarring from strip excision, although an infrequent complication, still concerns enough patients that an alternative solution is warranted. OBJECTIVE The purpose of this paper is ...

When disks containing cefuroxime (CXM) or HR 756 (756) were placed next to cefoxitin (FOX) on plates inoculated with Enterobacter resistant to FOX, there was marked flattening of the zones of inhibition produced by CXM or 756, but colonies growing near the CXM or 756 disks were found to be fully susceptible to these drugs on retesting. In contrast, when a checkerboard titration with CXM or 756 ...