Of 232 patients with evidence of lumbar spinal stenosis, 13 had symptoms of meralgia paraesthetica. Myelography demonstrated that in all but one of these 13 cases the L3-4 level was involved by stenosis; in 12 matched control patients with spinal stenosis, none had involvement at this level. We found that both the ligamentum flavum and the laminae at L3-4 level were thicker than in a control gr...

This study was conducted to determine the effect of temperature and moisture stress on exsheathment process and infectivity of the infective larvae of the parasitic nematode Haemonchus contortus. Laboratory conditions were used in which infective (L3) of H. contortus were either subjected to gradually increasing temperatures, decreasing moisture or both. Post stress viability and exsheatment of...

Event-related potentials were recorded during the visual presentation of words in the three languages of French-English-Spanish trilinguals. Participants monitored a mixed list of unrelated non-cognate words in the three languages while performing a semantic categorization task. Words in L1 generated earlier N400 peak amplitudes than both L2 and L3 words, which peaked together. On the other han...

PURPOSE To generate a mouse model in which the Lrat gene is selectively disrupted in the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE). To evaluate the effects on the synthesis of retinyl esters and on the expression of other proteins involved in the continuation of the visual cycle. METHODS A mouse line in which part of the first exon of the Lrat gene has been flanked by loxP sites, was generated and use...

Infection with the gastrointestinal nematode Haemonchus contortus causes considerable losses in the sheep industry. In this study, we evaluated the effect that climate has on third-stage larvae (L3) of H. contortus in terms of their migration from sheep feces to Brachiaria decumbens grass, as well as their distribution among the forage plants. Fecal samples containing H. contortus L3 was deposi...

Several recent results show that the Lambek Calculus L and its close relative L1 are sound and complete under (possibly relativized) relational interpretation. This paper transfers these results to L3, the multimodal extension of the Lambek Calculus that was proposed in Moortgat (1996). Two simple relational interpretations of L3 are proposed and shown to be sound and complete. The completeness...

Recently, the L3 collaboration has reported the observation of four events in the reactions e + e − → ll + γγ, l = e, µ, τ , with the invariant photon pair mass near 60 GeV in a data sample collected in the L3 detector corresponding to 950,000 produced Z 0 's. More recently, more data from the other LEP collaborations have become available. In this paper, we use the Monte Carlo genrator YFS3 an...

Core network micro-mobility solutions resolve L3 handovers and may be based on the Internet Protocol (IP) or on Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS). When a micro-mobility solution triggers the L3 handover before the L2 handover, it is called predictive, otherwise reactive. The outage period due to the handover is smaller for predictive solutions. However, in order to be predictive, a L3 mobil...