From time to time epidemics of j aunui^ suggestive of Weil's disease have been describee by workers in India, but in no case so iar recorded could the causative organism ^e demonstrated with certainty. Tucker (1907) reported a very severe epidenj10 of jaundice in the crowded quarters about tne Byculla District of Bombay. These cases showed the usual signs of yellow atrophy of t"e liver and nine...

Bluetongue is a primarily midge-borne devastating hemorrhagic viral disease of sheep characterized by high morbidity and mortality resulting severe economic losses to sheep farmers. An epidemiological study was undertaken to assess the crude and specific measures of morbidity, mortality and case fatality against bluetongue in sheep. In this study, a total of 11 bluetongue outbreaks were selecte...

Potential cases and controls were identified through electronic data query of the Partners Healthcare Research Practice Data Registry (RPDR), using ICD-9 billing codes to identify variants of IBD coexisting with celiac disease. Because the RPDR also contains laboratory results, the investigators were able to identify possible patients with celiac disease by abnormal serologies in addition to IC...

background vitamin d deficiency is believed to cause variety of abnormalities such as liver stiffness and fibrosis. it is also shown that vitamin d deficiency may result in chronic liver disease or liver cirrhosis. in this study, we aimed to systematically review the literature wherein the relationship between vitamin d deficiency and the severity of chronic liver disease or liver cirrhosis had...

Although lichen planus is a fairly common disorder, its familial occurrence is uncommon and varies between 1.5 and 10.7%. In most reports, only two or three members of the family have had disease but occasionally more family members may be affected. We present a case of lichen planus, whose father, mother, and maternal aunt also had this disease.

This paper investigates association between portfolio returns and higher-order systematic co-moments at different timescales obtained through wavelet multiscalinga technique that decomposes a given return series into different timescales enabling investigation at different return intervals. For some portfolios, the relative risk positions indicated by systematic co-moments at higher timescales ...