BACKGROUND Diltiazem hydrochloride is a commonly prescribed benzothiazepine calcium channel blocker for the treatment of cardiovascular disease. Recently, 8 cases of diltiazem-induced photodistributed hyperpigmentation occurring predominantly in elderly African American women were reported. Here, we report occurrence for the first time in a light-skinned African American woman and a Hispanic wo...

Asymptotic behaviors for subcritical Branching Processes in Random Environment (BPRE) starting with several particles depend on whether the BPRE is strongly subcritical (SS), intermediate subcritical (IS) or weakly subcritical (WS) (see [12]). Descendances of particles for BPRE are not independent. In the (SS+IS) case, the asymptotic probability of survival is proportional to the initial number...

Abstract The objective of this study is to determine the impact rainfall on duration efficacy a commercial pour-on against susceptible (SS) and permethrin resistant (PR) horn flies. Eighteen Angus-Hereford crossbred heifers (BW) were used in completely randomized design with repeated measures longevity permethrin-based pour-on. Animals randomly assigned one two fly infestations (SS or PR) withi...

Keratocytes are vital for maintaining the overall health of human cornea as they preserve the corneal transparency and help in healing corneal injuries. Manual segmentation of keratocytes is challenging, time consuming and also needs an expert. Here, we propose a novel semi-automatic segmentation framework, called Conditional Random Field Weakly Supervised Segmentation (CRF-WSS) to perform the ...

Accurate and efficient splicing is of crucial importance for highly-transcribed intron-containing genes (ICGs) in rapidly replicating unicellular eukaryotes such as the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. We characterize the 5' and 3' splice sites (ss) by position weight matrix scores (PWMSs), which is the highest for the consensus sequence and the lowest for splice sites differing most fro...

The aim of this paper is to introduce and study two new classes of functions called weakly $e^{*}$-open functions and weakly $e^{*}$-closed functions via the concept of $e^{*}$-open set defined by Ekici cite{erd1}. The notions of weakly $e^{*}$-open and weakly $e^{*}$-closed functions are weaker than the notions of weakly $beta$-open and weakly $beta$-closed functions defined by Caldas and Nava...

A fully nonlinear non-dispersive energy balance for surfzone waves is derived based on the shallow water equations (NLSWE) to study nearshore dynamics of infragravity (IG) waves. Based simulations a relatively moderate and mild beach slope with non-hydrostatic wave-flow model (SWASH), new theory shows that spatial gradients in IG flux are nearly completely balanced by combined effect bottom str...

PURPOSE To investigate in impression cytology (IC) specimens the expression of inflammatory and apoptosis-related markers by conjunctival epithelial cells from patients with dry eye as a rationale for treatment with topical cyclosporine. METHODS Immunologic anomalies were identified at baseline, before treatment with the masked medication, in a homogeneous series of patients with dry eye synd...