In his book [Ad, p. 105 bottom], C. Adams mentions a result of Morton that there exist knots, whose genus g is strictly less than their weak genus g̃, the minimal genus of (the surface of Seifert’s algorithm applied on) all their diagrams. This observation appears just as a remark in [Mo], but was very striking to the author. Motivated by Morton’s example, the author started in a series of paper...

Results: Approximately 11.6% of the strains were resistant against at least one major drug, and 8.3% were resistant against more than one drug. Single-drug resistance for INH, ETB, SM, and RIF was found as 5.8%, 2.1%, 3.7%, and 0.0%, respectively. Two or more drug resistance rates for SM + ETB, SM + INH, INH + RIF, RIF + ETB, INH + ETB + RIF, SM + ETB + INH and INH + ETB + RIF + SM were determi...

M. PFEIFER 1 , 2 ∗, P . J . PLATTS 2 , 3 , N . D . B U R G E S S 3 , 4 , 5 , R . D. S W ET NAM 6 , S . WILLCOCK 7 , S . L . LEWIS 7 AND R. MARCHANT 2 1Faculty of Natural Sciences, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, Silwood Park Campus, Ascot, Buckhurst Road, London SL5 7PY, UK, 2York Institute for Tropical Ecosystem Dynamics, Environment Department, University of York, Heslin...

Fiona Timmins 1,*,†, Richard Egan 2, Bernadette Flanagan 3,†, Yvonne Muldowney 1,†, Colm OBoyle 1,†, Vivienne Brady 1,† ID , Jacqueline Whelan 1,†, Kathleen Neenan 1,† and Wilfred McSherry 4,5,6,† ID 1 School of Nursing and Midwifery, Trinity College Dublin, 24 D’Olier Street, Dublin 2, Ireland; [email protected] (Y.M.); [email protected] (C.O.); [email protected] (V.B.); [email protected] (J.W.); kaneena...

Abstract Because an exact pairing between an object and its dual is extraordinarily natural in the object, ideas of the paper [St4] apply to yield a definition of dualization for a pseudomonoid in any autonomous monoidal bicategory as base; this is an improvement on [DS; Definition 11, page 114]. We analyse the dualization notion in depth. An example is the concept of autonomous (which, usually...

Blastocystis sp. is currently the most common eukaryotic parasite found in humans. Despite its potential public health impact, epidemiological data regarding its prevalence and molecular subtype (ST) distribution in Maghreb are rarely reported. Therefore, the aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of the parasite in a cohort of healthy food handler Tunisian individuals and to acquire...

Blastocystis is the most common human enteric protist with controversial clinical significance. Metronidazole is considered a first-line treatment for Blastocystis infection; however, there has been increasing evidence for the lack of efficacy of this treatment. Treatment failure has been reported in several clinical cases, and recent in vitro studies have suggested the occurrence of metronidaz...

OBJECTIVES The main purpose of this research is to investigate the effect of treatment with Hominis Placental pharmacopuncture (HPP) for 32 patients with hemifacial spasm. METHODS We treated facial spasm patients with acupuncture and HPP at Sabaek (ST2), Seung-eup (ST1), Gwallyeo (SI18), Chanjuk (BL2), Sajukgong (TE23), Hagwan (ST7), Hyeopgeo (ST6), Jichang (ST4), Wan-gol (SI4) and Yepung (TE...

A threshold concept is defined by Meyer and Land (2003) as possessing the following qualities: transformative, integrative, bounded, and probably irreversible. This concept provides a promising way of interpreting the learning demand presented by subjects and Meyer and Land have begun to apply the idea in analysing learning economics. It redefines the familiar idea of a ‘powerful concept’ in a ...

This paper focused on numerical study of hybrid composite specimens, which was experimentally done by preparing according to ASTM standards. Hybrid Composites are the formed by the combination of more than one reinforcement and matrix, which exibits very good properties compared to that of single reinforcement composites. These materials shows better flexibility when comparing with other compos...