In a stable population of 250 000, the diagnosis of congestive cardiomyopathy could be firmly established in fifty-nine cases during a period of 8 years. This gives an incidence of the disease of 3/100 000/year. If cases disclosed at post-mortem during the same period are included, the frequency of the disease will equal 5/100 000/year.

In this project, we implemented the recursive autoencoder (RAE) as described in Socher’s paper to discover the sentiment of sentences. We train and test our RAEs with a dataset of over 10000 sentences from movie reviews, and achieve 75.4% accuracy.

Background Cytomegalovirus (CMV) reactivation is a frequent complication after allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplant (alloHCT). Method We analyzed 159 alloHCT recipients with 4409 quantitative CMV viral loads to determine pre-transplant predictors of reactivation, clinically significant infection (cs-CMVi, defined as load >1000 IU/mL), disease, kinetics spontaneous clearance CMV, and surviva...

Several experiments using a self-regulated system were conducted to define the factors likely to influence the uptake of paralytic shellfish poison (PSP) by oysters in the Penzé estuary (France, Brittany). Each 4-day experiment was carried out in a recirculated sea water system using 15 Pacific oysters (Crassostrea gigas) separated from each other and supplied with unfiltered natural seawater c...

Sodium polyanethol sulfonate (SPS) at 500 microgram/ml, but not sodium amylosulfate (SAS) at 500 microgram/ml, precipitated egg white lysozyme (1 mg and 50 microgram of lysozyme per ml) as determined with the assay strain Micrococcus lysodeikticus ATCC 4698. Fresh and heat-inactivated (56 degrees C, 30 min) human serum (80%, vol/vol) killed M. lysodeikticus (10(4) bacteria per ml at zero time) ...

Doogh is the most popular and commonly consumed yoghurt-based Iranian drink. The aim of this study was to investigate the antibacterial effects of Ziziphora clinopodioides essential oil (ZEO) at 0.10 and 0.20% concentrations, nisin at 250 and 500 IU mL-1, and their combination against Salmonella typhimurium and Staphylococcusaureus in doogh during storage at 4 ˚C for  9 days. Nine batches were ...

1. The oxidation of p-dimethylaminomethylbenzylamine by purified placental diamine oxidase was followed by measuring the change in E250 caused by the production of p-dimethylaminomethylbenzaldehyde. 2. The inhibition of this reaction by substrate analogues such as isothiouronium, guanidinium, dimethylsulphonium and trimethylammonium compounds was extensively studied. 3. The type and degree of i...

We retrospectively studied seven children (six girls, one boy) aged from 7.5 to 25 months who presented to our institution after taking large doses of vitamin D (900 000-4 000 000 U) prescribed by medical practitioners for wrong indications like failure to thrive, etc. The clinical manifestations were constipation, decreased appetite, lethargy, polyuria, dehydration and failure to thrive. All p...