with support from the Surgeon General’s Leadership Campaign on AIDS and the California HealthCare Foundation. The California HealthCare Foundation, based in Oakland, California , is a nonprofit philanthropic organization whose mission is to expand access to affordable, quality health care for undeserved individuals and communities, and to promote fundamental improvement in the health status of ...

purpose : to evaluate the results of anterior and nasal transposition (ant) of the inferior oblique muscle (io) in patients with the io muscle overaction methods : this retrospective case series included patients with io muscles overaction, in whom ant of the io muscle was performed. in patient with simultaneous horizontal deviation, horizontal strabismus surgery was also performed. they were e...

background there is limited knowledge about the use of cigarettes by blacks outside the united states (u.s). nigeria creates an opportunity to explore smoking behaviours, smoking cessation (nicotine dependence) and use of cigarettes in a country that has a large black population outside the u.s.   methods we conducted three focus group discussions (fgds) involving twenty-four male migrant worke...

optimization of reservoir parameters is an important issue in petroleum exploration and production. the ant colony optimization(aco) is a recent approach to solve discrete and continuous optimization problems. in this paper, the ant colony optimization is usedas an intelligent tool to estimate reservoir rock properties. the methodology is illustrated by using a case study on shear wave velocity...

The Acacia drepanolobium (also known as Vachellia drepanolobium) ant-plant symbiosis is considered a classic case of species coexistence, in which four species of tree-defending ants compete for nesting space in a single host tree species. Coexistence in this system has been explained by trade-offs in the ability of the ant associates to compete with each other for occupied trees versus the abi...