In recent years, screening studies have been carried out in several countries. The findings have defined the scope of the problem and indicated which population groups are at risk of developing CKD. The most numerous are patients with hypertension and diabetes. Also, these studies have indicated that screening should include measurement of serum creatinine for eGFR as well as urine albumin. Ear...

Analysis of 200 cases reveals that the two neurological syndromes, brachial neuritis and myelopathy, associated with cervical spondylosis are distinct with relatively little overlap. While upper limb motor and sensory loss are doubtless due to nerve root compression in cases of "pure' brachial neuritis, they are more likely to be due to cord damage in cases with myelopathy (with spastic parapar...

Even though people have owned a wide variety of companion animals since times of old, the modern craze for increasingly exotic and little-known species raises a number of questions, including some of an ethical nature. While trade in exotic animals is certainly profitable for these who practise it, it poses great risks of varying types: ecological risks, threats to biodiversity conservation and...

Having a doubtless election in the information technology era requires satisfaction and verification of security properties in electronic voting (e-voting) systems. This paper focuses on verification of authentication-type properties of an e-voting protocol. The well-known FOO92 e-voting protocol is analyzed, as a case study, against the uniqueness and eligibility properties and their satisfact...

One of the key problems in the pathogenesis of pyelonephritis is to explain how obstruction of urine flow renders the kidney more susceptible to infection. Since urine is a good culture medium, slowing of its excretion doubtless provides opportunity for more luxuriant bacterial multiplication, but there are indications that other consequences of urinary obstruction favor the growth and survival...

This is a partial list of some interesting questions that arose in the past decade or so from applications of homotopy-theoretic methods in knot and link theory. The ones I have in mind (because those are the ones I am familiar with) are manifold calculus of functors, cosimplicial spaces, and operad actions. (Some problems are also about configuration space integrals as they have proven to be a...

Mr. President and Gentlemten-Some years have now elapsed since I had the honor to communicate to you in this Academy the result of my alkali-metric experiments, through which, I believe, I have definitely demonstrated the excessive alcalinity' which characterizes the atmosphere of Havana. Some of the gentlemen now present will doubtless remember also the conjectural relations which, at that tim...

The detection of consanguinity by the presence of multiple regions of homozygosity (ROH) is not an uncommon occurrence in clinical laboratories performing SNP microarray analysis. Reporting practices amongst laboratories are highly variable, due in part to differences in testing platforms, threshold parameters, language utilized, and laboratory policies. While guidance documents have provided a...

The optical and electrical properties of fluorinated tin oxide (FTO) films deposited at room temperature by sputtering have been investigated varying the fluorine content hydrogen atmosphere. complex behavior obtained is disclosed using a wide set characterization techniques that reveals combined effects these two parameters on generated defects. These defects control transport (carrier density...

to become exclusively a medical institution focusing on curative procedures, and ultimately to expand its clientele to all levels of society. While large-scale involvement of medical men with hospitals doubtless preceded the administrative-institutional transformation of the latter (medical professionalization around the hospital clinic in France following the Revolution may have been one neces...