We investigated the size distribution, scattering and absorption properties of Amazonian aerosols and the optical thickness of the aerosol layer under the pristine background conditions typical of the wet season, as well as during the biomass-burning-influenced dry season. The measurements were made during two campaigns in 1999 as part of the European contribution to the Large-Scale BiosphereAt...

1606 Emerging Infectious Diseases • www.cdc.gov/eid • Vol. 12, No. 10, October 2006 Maël Bessaud,* Christophe N. Peyrefitte,*† Boris A.M. Pastorino,* Fabienne Tock,* Olivier Merle,* Jean-Jacques Colpart,‡ Jean-Sébastien Dehecq,§ Romain Girod,* Marie-Christine Jaffar-Bandjee,¶ Pamela J. Glass,# Michael Parker,# Hugues J. Tolou,* and Marc Grandadam* *Institut de médecine tropicale du Service de s...

BACKGROUND Galectin 3 (Gal-3) is a potential mediator of cardiac fibrosis, and Gal-3 concentrations predict incident heart failure. The same mechanisms that lead to cardiac fibrosis in heart failure may influence development of atrial fibrosis and atrial fibrillation (AF). We examined the association of Gal-3 and incident AF in the community. METHODS Plasma Gal-3 concentrations were measured ...

Herein, we present an interesting case of an aberrant hypothenar muscle found during carpal tunnel decompression. The variant muscle arised from the voloradial antebrachial fascia and coursed over the ulnar artery and nerve in the Guyon canal, and inserted into the ulnar aspect of the hypothenar. Tension on the muscle belly provided slight abduction of the fifth metacarpophalangeal joint, which...

We designed four datasets for the purpose of benchmarking local causal discovery algorithms. These include two “re-simulated” datasets obtained from artificially generated data from models trained with real data and two datasets including real variables intermixed with artificial variables (called probes). There is no time dependency in the samples. We chose applications in marketing, pharmacol...

Issues of spatial dependence have arisen in several areas of research, such as the environmental sciences, economics and sociology, but may be more generally relevant in circumstances in which cross-sectional or panel data are collected. Book-length descriptions statistical methods of analyzing spatial data include Cliff and Ord (1981), Anselin (1988), Haining (1990), Cressie (1993), Guyon (199...

Many scientific disciplines use modelling and simulation processes and techniques in order to implement non-linear mapping between the input and the output variables for a given system under study. Any variable that helps to solve the problem may be considered as input. Ideally, any classifier or regressor should be able to detect important features and discard irrelevant features, and conseque...

MEDIAN nerve compression at the wrist is common and its treatment by decompression is usually successful. Ulnar nerve entrapment, on the other hand, is uncommon. The ulnar nerve as it enters the hand passes through and divides in the canal of Guyon, into its deep (motor) and superficial (sensory) branch. This ulnarcarpal tunnel is bounded proximally and medially by the pisiform, distally and la...