The spectrum of obsessive-compulsive disorders has received a great deal of theoretical attention, but there has been relatively little associated empirical research. The purpose of this study was to compare three groups of patients; those diagnosed with hypochondriasis (HC, a proposed spectrum condition), obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and those with both OCD and HC (OCD/HC). The results ...

Meteosat satellite images are processed to yield values of the incoming surface solar irradiance (SSI), one of the Essential Climate Variables. Two HelioClim databases, HC-1 and HC-3, were constructed covering Europe, Africa and the Atlantic Ocean, and contain daily and monthly means of SSI. The HC-1 database spans from 1985 to 2005; HC-3 began in 2004 and is updated daily. Their quality and li...

The study was designed to determine the extent to which respiratory muscle wasting, resulting from corticosteroid-induced atrophy, may affect respiration in normal rats and in rats with denervated diaphragm. Twenty four male Wistar rats were divided into four groups: 1) controls with sham operation (SX) and vehicle injections: 2) SX with eight hydrocortisone (HC) injections (60 mg.kg-1.day-1 i....

Polyoma BK virus (BKV) is frequently identified in the urine of bone marrow transplantation (BMT) patients with hemorrhagic cystitis (HC). However, viruria is common even in asymptomatic patients, making a direct causative role of BKV difficult to establish. This study prospectively quantified BK viruria and viremia in 50 BMT patients to define the quantitative relationship of BKV reactivation ...

In warm-winter regions, induction of dormancy release by hydrogen cyanamide (HC) is mandatory for commercial table grape production. Induction of respiratory stress by HC leads to dormancy release via an uncharacterized biochemical cascade that could reveal the mechanism underlying this phenomenon. Previous studies proposed a central role for abscisic acid (ABA) in the repression of bud meriste...

We propose in this paper a new method for the mapping of hippocampal (HC) surfaces to establish correspondences between points on HC surfaces and enable localized HC shape analysis. A novel geometric feature, the intrinsic shape context, is defined to capture the global characteristics of the HC shapes. Based on this intrinsic feature, an automatic algorithm is developed to detect a set of land...

HC-toxin is a cyclic tetrapeptide of structure cyclo(D-Pro-L-Ala-D-Ala-L-Aeo), where Aeo stands for 2-amino-9,10-epoxi-8-oxodecanoic acid. It is a determinant of specificity and virulence in the interaction between the producing fungus, Cochliobolus carbonum, and its host, maize. HC-toxin qualifies as one of the few microbial secondary metabolites whose ecological function in nature is understo...

The blends formed mixing hydrofluorocarbons (HFC) and hydrocarbons (HC) can be classified as semi-natural refrigerants since, by optimizing the composition, it is in principle possible to adapt basic features such as GWP, TEWI and flammability to the industrial and environmental requirements. However, the energetic efficiency must be competitive with the traditional refrigerants. To evaluate th...

Standard incremental parsing algorithm employs a single scoring function and beam-search to find the best parse tree from an exponentially large search space. Inspired by recently proposed HC-search framework, we decompose the incremental parsing algorithm into two steps: first searching a set of high-quality outputs with beam-search, and second selecting the best output with a ranking model. W...