Levels of circulating IgE, total haemolytic complement, and components C4 and C3 were measured in 16 asthmatics with aspirin idiosyncrasy and in control subjects. IgE levels were mostly within normal limits. No differences were found between the complement profiles-in particular the C4 levels-in the two groups. As low levels of C4 have been found in patients with intrinsic asthma, these results...

We have studied the magnetic properties of various Boron particles obtained by different methods and found evidence soft ferromagnetism in all. While our study cannot unequivocally exclude that is at origin magnetism, we suggest impurities which are either result synthetic process or come from intentional doping indeed responsible for observed properties. The phenomenon bears similarities with ...

A wide scale of different NLP methods have been investigated for the extraction of Multiword Expressions from large corpora. While a good deal of recent research has been focusing on the development of reliable means to delineate different subclasses of MWEs with respect to the degree of their compositionality (Baldwin et al., 2003; McCarthy et al., 2003), it has been generally accepted that fo...

Using a critical discourse analytic model of translation criticism, the present study attempts to explore the effect of ideology and idiosyncrasy on the lexical choices in translation studies. The study employed a descriptive approach to answer two research questions: Is there any relationship between ideology and idiosyncratic features of translators' lexical choices? And if yes, can it be ana...

The world of ontology development is full of mysteries. Recently, ISO Standard 15926 (“Lifecycle Integration of Process Plant Data Including Oil and Gas Production Facilities”), a data model initially designed to support the integration and handover of large engineering artefacts, has been proposed by its principal custodian for general use as an upper level ontology. As we shall discover, ISO ...