Autoimmunity may be involved in idiopathic premature ovarian failure (POF). However, the frequency, physiopathology and potential reversibility of autoimmune oophoritis needs clarification. Using an ELISA against whole tissue homogenate as antigen, from human ovaries at different ages, positive circulating ovarian antibodies (AOA) were found in 59% of patients with primitive idiopathic POF (27/...

OBJECTIVE Addison's disease is frequently a component of autoimmune polyendocrinopathies while secondary adrenal insufficiency associated with autoimmune disorders is believed to be a rare event. We present a series of patients with secondary adrenal insufficiency coexisting with autoimmune diseases and/or antithyroid autoantibodies. DESIGN AND PATIENTS Among a group of 102 patients with seco...

New Zealand author Lloyd Jones’ novel Mr. Pip, winner of the 2006 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Overall Best Book, is set on the island province of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea, amidst the violence of the island’s attempted secession in 1990. The book takes its title from the facts that students at one village school are reading Dickens’s Great Expectations during the island’s blockade and ...

The collections of the MaZuranić-Brlić-RuZić Memorial Library and Archive in Rijeka contain in addition to the libraries of Ivan, Antun and Matija Mazuranic and of Baron Kuslan, books from the library of Dimitrija Demeter. This Graeco-Croatian man of letters and doctor of medicine was the first modern Croatian playwright. Artefacts, paintings and furniture of the Demeter family are included in ...

As a result of rapid economic growth and increased influence of globalization in international trade activities, intra-industry trade (IIT) becomes prominent across Asia including Malaysia. Free trade agreements and creations of free trade areas have encourage increased cross border investments through production networking as well as fragmentation of production, especially in manufacturing sec...

EXAMINATION of the central visual fields on the Bjerrum screen is easily and accurately carried out when fixation is perfect owing to sparing of the macula. Frequently, however, it is desirable to estimate the central and paracentral fields when the fixation area has been affected. This cannot be done satisfactorily unless the eye which isbeing examined is accurately immobilized. Reed (1960) en...

Jens Eriksson, Ruth Pearce, Tihomir Iakimov, Chariya Virojanadara, Daniela Gogova, Mike Andersson, Mikael Syväjärvi, Anita Lloyd Spetz and Rositza Yakimova, The influence of substrate morphology on thickness uniformity and unintentional doping of epitaxial graphene on SiC, 2012, Applied Physics Letters, (100), 24, 241607. http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4729556 Copyright: American Institute of Phys...

Spare parts inventories assist maintenance staff to keep equipment in operating condition. Thus the level of spares stocked has a direct bearing on machine availability. This paper presents an innovative risk based approach for spare parts inventory optimisation. Research presented here is in response to a real-life problem of developing a methodology for optimising the stocking of spare parts ...

– We study the role of increasing returns (in production) on the emergence of nonlinear endogenous fluctuations in a simple overlapping generations model. We specify conditions for the occurrence of local flip and Hopf bifurcations in terms of relevant parameters. We, also, present orbits exhibiting endogenous fluctuations, for some numerical examples. Our results, in compliance with other rece...

Lloyd asks who claimed to possess specialist knowledge of the body, and what it was used for. In both cultures the body was seen as a symbol of order. In Chinese medicine there was a greater interest in the social hierarchy of organs, but also the free flow of qi was seen as essential for health. Analogies between body and state were used to show that political health depended on the ruler's vi...