OBJECTIVE To examine the effects of premutation alleles on major brain fiber tracts in males. DESIGN Cross-sectional study performed in 2007-2009. SETTING Institutional practice. PATIENTS Fifteen younger (18-45 years old) carriers, 11 older (>45 years old) unaffected carriers, and 15 older carriers with fragile X-associated tremor/ataxia syndrome, together with 19 younger and 15 older con...

Under anaerobic conditions, organic pollutants in wastewater are degraded by microbes producing methane and carbon dioxide. The degradation process is effective compared to the more conventional aerobic processes and produces only 5-10% of sludge. This saves considerably on cost associated with the sludge disposal. Among anaerobic technologies, the most popular ones is the upflow anaerobic slud...

The maternal or paternal dietary composition can have important effects on various aspects of their offspring's physiology. Studies from animal models and humans showed that a maternal high-fiber diet protected offspring against fat accumulation. However, little is known about how a maternal low-fiber diet modifies the metabolism of offspring in herbivorous rodents. We hypothesized that a mater...

A total number of thirty two males and females, 35 to 40 days old growing New Zealand White (NWZ) rabbits were performed to investigate the effect of feeding rabbits on 8 diets with grade levels 10, 13, 16 and 19% of crude fiber (CF) incorporated with or without some enzymes (Caplix commercial product for multienzymes) supplementation at the level of 0.5 ml / 1 litter water (as recommended by p...

Not long ago, I e-mailed Donald McNeil, Jr. I wanted to know how many HIV/AIDS articles the New York Times reporter had written over the years. “Fiddling with the Times’ website and internal library . . . produces 201 to 495,” McNeil replied. “I think it’s safe to say I’ve written 400 stories about AIDS.” At the end of this piece I’ll share McNeil’s favorite, but for now I’ll state the obvious....

We introduce a framework for quality assurance of corpora, and apply it to the Reuters Multilingual Corpus (RCV2). The results of this quality assessment of this standard newsprint corpus reveal a significant duplication problem and, to a lesser extent, a problem with corrupted articles. From the raw collection of some 487,000 articles, almost one tenth are trivial duplicates. A smaller fractio...

Introduction: Schawannomas (neuromas, neurilemmomas) are benign tumors originating from showann cells or nerve fiber sheet cells. They are solitary, encapsulated tumors usually attached to, or surrounded by a nerve. Case Report: We present a case of left hypoglossal nerve schwannoma in a 19 year old man who was admitted with progressive left tongue atrophy. Conclusion: Schwannoma of the hy...