A polymorphic DNA marker has been found genetically linked, in a set of 39 human families, to an autosomal recessive gene that causes cystic fibrosis (CF), a disease affecting one in 2000 Caucasian children. The DNA marker (called D0CRI-917) is also linked to the PON locus, which by independent evidence is linked to the CF locus. The best estimates of the genetic distances are 5 centimorgans be...

BACKGROUND Rates of hip arthroscopy have been on an exponential rise. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the rate and timing of subsequent total hip arthroplasty (THA) after hip arthroscopy and identify if rates of THA differed based on age, diagnosis of osteoarthritis, or arthroscopic procedure performed. METHODS The Humana administrative claims data set was reviewed from 2007 to 2014...

OBJECTIVE To assess the efficacy of a single intra-articular injection of triamcinolone hexacetonide (THA) in knee osteoarthritis (OA) and examine factors which may relate to treatment efficacy. METHODS Eighty four patients with clinical and radiographic evidence of knee OA were recruited and randomly allocated to receive either THA (20 mg in 1 ml) or placebo (0.9% normal saline, 1 ml). Follo...

BACKGROUND A Phase II trial was conducted at the University of Michigan to determine the efficacy of a preoperative regimen of concurrent cisplatin, paclitaxel, and radiation for patients with locoregional esophageal carcinoma. METHODS Sixty-nine patients with esophageal carcinoma were treated with cisplatin 75 mg/m(2) on Day 1, paclitaxel 60 mg/m(2) on Days 1, 8, 15, and 22, and radiation 1....

1 0 Introduction The tropical semiring is the semiring denoted by M which has support Nf+1g and operations ab = minfa; bg and ab = a+b. It was rst introduced in the context of cost minimization in Operations Research. However it appeared that M plays in fact a central role in several decision problems concerning rational languages (see 15] for a survey of the tropical semiring theory and of its...

INTRODUCTION Cystic fibrosis (CF) is one of the common genetic disorders in the western world. It has been reported to be very rare in Asian populations. According to the Cystic Fibrosis Genetic Analysis Consortium, more than 1,000 mutations of the CF gene have been identified. The CF gene, named the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR), is located on chromosome 7 and comp...

Bose and Chaudhuri (1960) have introduced a class of binary errorcorrecting codes of block length 2 ~ 1, m = 2,3,• • which we refer to here as B-C codes. An efficient decoding scheme has been devised for them by Peterson (1960), and generalized to the natural extension of the B-C Codes to codes in pm symbols by D. Gorenstein and N. Zierler (1960). Two further properties of B-C codes are establi...

to evaluate germination and seedling growth of safflower an experiment carried out as factorial with two factor; temperature (5, 15, and 25 °c) and salinity of sodium chloride (0, 5, 10, and 15 ds/m) based on randomized complete block design with four replications, in dept. of horticulture of urmia university. results of different concentration sodium chloride on germination and seedling growth...