In recent years the clinical significance of the electrolyte balance of the blood has become increasingly realized, and was the subject of a leader in the Lancet. This has also been stressed by other workers (Baumann, 1952; Black, 1953; Graham, 1954; Wynn and Rob, 1954). The following investigation was carried out with a view to finding whether a rapid screening test could be of practical clini...

Background: UBI 29-41 (a derivative of antimicrobial peptide ubiquicidin) labelled with 99mTc is reported to discriminate between bacterial infections and sterile inflammatory processes. In this study, three lyophilized kit were performed, one of them based on the direct labelling with only SnCl2 as reducing agent , and other two based on 6- hydrazinopyridine-3-carboxylic acid (HYNIC) and trici...

In this paper an optimization algorithm applicable to, but not limited to, the problem of designing digital filters with coefficients implemented as a sums of signed power-of-two terms is presented. The algorithm can handle general constraints which are imposed in a soft manner through continuous parameters allowing for a trade-off between frequency response error and realization complexity. Th...

A serious problem in the study of cultural characteristics archaic Scandinavia is verification sources. The main questions that arise: to which extent pagan ritual practices continued exist after beginning mass Christianization, and what Christian ideas were extrapolated by later sources pre-Christian era. One major rituals mentioned – feast sacrificial blood, was a crucial element structures e...