We report the autopsy of a 79-year-old Japanese woman with Dubin-Johnson syndrome accompanied by pneumonia, an abetalipoproteinemia-like lipid profile and acanthocytosis. On admission, physical examination of the patient revealed malnutrition. Blood tests revealed marked inflammatory changes and mild liver dysfunction. Chest X-ray indicated bilateral pneumonia. Total cholesterol, low-density li...

In this thesis, I solve the following problem: Given a rectangular region R in which n (n is large) targets are distributed according to some continuous or piece-wise continuous distribution, find the length of the optimal Stochastic Travelling Salesperson tour of a Dubin vehicle over the n targets and design an algorithm that performs within a constant factor of the optimal expected tour lengt...

The dependence on induced charge, experimental geometry, and temperature of electrostatic modes in very low aspect ratio non-neutral plasmas in a Penning trap is considered. The modes are of interest as non-destructive diagnostics of the shape of the plasmas. These investigations include equilibrium calculations of plasma shapes and profiles at finite temperature and particle-in-cell simulation...

The analysis of real estate markets continues to be a prime area for the application and development of spatial analysis techniques. While spatial analytical approaches have become more widespread and accessible over the past decade to researchers and practitioners in a wide variety of disciplines (Páez et al. 2009), it is interesting to note that some early examples of the potential of both sp...

Urinary coproporphyrinisomer distribution was studied in 13 patients suffering from the Dubin-Johnsonsyndromeand several control groups. In patients with the DubinJohnson syndrome the isomer distribution was quite the reverse to that of normal persons. The urinary isomer distribution was in the normal range in patients with Gilbert’s syndrome, hemolytic jaundice, and fatty liver. In many patien...