OBJECTIVE To explore the potential of the GPIbalpha gene variable number tandem repeat (VNTR) and -5T/C Kozak polymorphisms to act as independent risk factors for myocardial infarction. METHODS 256 patients aged 33-80 years (180 caucasian, 76 Indian Asian) were recruited at cardiac catheterisation for any diagnostic indication, and divided into two groups: group A, with confirmed previous myo...

Discovery of X–rays from the supernova remnant G0.9+0.1 L. Sidoli, G.L. Israel, L. Chiappetti, A. Treves, M. Orlandini, E. Kuulkers, P. Predehl , J. Heise and S. Mereghetti Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano, Via Celoria 16, I-20133 Milano, Italy Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma, Via dell’Osservatorio 2, I-00040 Monteporzio Catone (Roma), Italy Istituto di Fisica Cosmica del C.N.R., V...

The supernova remnant N157B (30 Dor B, SNR 0539-69.1, NGC 2060), located in the Tarantula Nebula of the Large Magellanic Cloud, has long been considered a possible Crab-like remnant. This hypothesis has been confirmed, quite spectacularly, with the discovery of PSR J0537−6910, the remarkable 16 ms X-ray pulsar in N157B. PSR J0537−6910 is the most rapidly spinning pulsar found to be associated w...

Giardia duodenalis is a common human and animal pathogen. It has been increasingly reported in wild and captive non-human primates (NHPs) in recent years. However, multilocus genotyping information for G. duodenalis infecting NHPs in southwestern China is limited. In the present study, the prevalence and multilocus genotypes (MLGs) of G. duodenalis in captive NHPs in southwestern China were det...

Mixtures are a commonly encountered form of biological evidence that contain DNA from two or more contributors. Laboratory analysis of mixtures produces data signals that usually cannot be separated into distinct contributor genotypes. Computer modeling can resolve the genotypes up to probability, reflecting the uncertainty inherent in the data. Human analysts address the problem by simplifying...

Recent timing observations of the double pulsar J0737−3039A/B have shown that its transverse velocity is extremely low, only 10 km/s, and nearly in the Plane of the Galaxy. With this new information, we rigorously re-examine the history and formation of this system, determining estimates of the pre-supernova companion mass, supernova kick and misalignment angle between the preand post-supernova...

We present some arguments in support of the association of the pulsar PSR B 1706−44 with the supernova remnant G 343.1−2.3, based on the idea that these objects could be the result of a supernova explosion within a mushroom-like cavity (created by the supernova progenitor wind breaking out of the parent molecular cloud). We suggest that in addition to the known bright " half " of G 343.1−2.3 th...

aim : the aim of this study is to investigate the molecular identification of giardia lamblia in patients with diarrhea. background : giardiasis caused by giardia lamblia is a common intestinal disease. although this parasitic infection found in mammals including human, pets and livestock, but few species within the genus giardia can infects humans. g. lamblia have seven complex genotypes terme...