Methods are described for taking finger-prick blood samples and for analyzing these samples for lead. Quality-control techniques and procedures for the validation of all results are described. Results of a survey of 1241 children are given and results for 149 venous samples are compared with results for the corresponding finger-prick samples. This finger-prick sampling method evidently is suita...

The relationship between aquaculture and infestations of sea lice on wild sea trout (Salmo trutta) populations is controversial. Although some authors have concluded that there is a link between aquaculture and lice burdens on wild fish, others have questioned this interpretation. Lice levels have been shown to be generally higher on Atlantic salmon farms during the second years of two-year pro...

The approval of the 1241 standard means that all users and manufacturers of analog-to-digital converters should use the terminology and test methods described in the standard. However it is not an easy task to leave an already developed, tested and used environment for a new one. To inspire the users to use the standard, a program has been developed, which realizes most of the described algorit...

CryptMT Version 3 (CryptMT3) is a stream cipher obtained by combining a large LFSR and a nonlinear filter with memory using integer multiplication. Its period is proved to be no less than 219937−1, and the 8-bit output sequence is at least 1241-dimensionally equidistributed. It is one of the fastest stream ciphers on a CPU with SIMD operations, such as Intel Core 2 Duo.

We report a 38-year-old Japanese woman who had cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy (CADASIL) with a novel mutation (TGT to TAT) at nucleotide position 1241 (C388Y) in exon 7 of the Notch3 gene (NOTCH3). Immunostaining of a skin biopsy with a Notch3 monoclonal antibody is a beneficial method for the screening of CADASIL, particularly in the ...