Let pod(n) denote the number of partitions of n wherein odd parts are distinct (and even parts are unrestricted). We find some new interesting congruences for pod(n) modulo 3, 5 and 9.

Topical preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP) against HIV has been marginally successful in recent clinical trials with low adherence rates being a primary factor for failure. Controlled, sustained release of antiretroviral (ARV) drugs may help overcome these low adherence rates if the product is protective for extended periods of time. The oral combination of tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (TDF) and e...

Background/Aims Postoperative delirium (POD) is more frequent in elderly patients undergoing major cancer surgery. The interplay between individual clinical vulnerability and a series of perioperative factors seems to play a relevant role. Surgery is the first-line treatment option for cancer, and fast-track surgery (FTS) has been documented to decrease postoperative complications. The study so...

BACKGROUND/AIMS Serum alkaline phosphatase (ALP) levels tend to increase after hepatectomy, however, no previous examinations have yet focused on the relationship between liver regeneration and the individual ALP isoenzymes levels. METHODOLOGY Forty living liver transplantation donors who underwent hemi-hepatectomy were herein investigated. We evaluated the serum ALP levels and ALP isoenzyme ...

Inheritance of plant height, pod length, pod width, seed length and seed width was studied in a set of crosses grown during rabi 2007-08. F2 phenotypic data for plant height was a good fit to a phenotypic ratio of 1:4:6:4:1 and 1:2:1 respectively in two crosses studied indicating the involvement of more than two genes. Segregation of pod length in F2 generation of the cross ICGV 00350 x K 1340,...

We use POD and EPOD (extended POD) analysis to extract the main features of the flow over a thick flat plate simulated with a LES. Our goal is to better understand the coupling between the velocity field and the surface pressure field. We find that POD modes based on the full velocity and energy fields contain both flapping and shedding frequencies. Pressure modes are found to be uniform in the...

Nonlinear PDEs domain discretization yields finite but high dimensional nonlinear systems. Proper Orthogonal Decomposition (POD) is widely used to reduce the order of such systems but it assumes that data belongs to a linear space and therefore fails to capture the nonlinear degrees of freedom. To overcome this problem, we develop a Space Vector Clustering (SVC) POD and use the reduced order mo...

A study was conducted to evaluate the seasonal influence on yield and yield contributing characters of four lablab bean genotypes: IPSA Seam-1, IPSA Seam-2, BU Seam-3 and JER during September 2000 to December 2001 covering one main season (winter) and two off-seasons (early summer and late summer). Compared to off-seasons, all the genotypes performed better for all the parameters during winter....

AIM The aim of the present study was to investigate the occurrence of postoperative delirium (POD) in elderly patients undergoing transurethral resection of prostate (TURP) and to identify those factors associated with delirium. METHODS From July 2010 to February 2015, 358 patients, aged ≥65 years and undergoing TURP were prospectively enrolled. Personal, medical and cognitive data, laborator...

BACKGROUND Ambulatory surgery has recently gain popularity, as it is a good method of optimizinghospital resources utilization. To support ambulatory surgery, anaesthetic goals nowrevolve around patients' early recovery with minimal pain and nausea, expedientdischarge home and prompt resumption of activities of daily living. In this study, weevaluated the effect of a single pre-induction dose o...