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Prevalence of liver disease and infection by hepatitis B, Delta virus, and human immunodeficiency virus in two Spanish penitentiaries
We studied the prevalence of liver disease and the carrier state for hepatitis B (HBV), delta virus (HDV) and HIV-1 infection in two Valencian penitentiaries, one for males and the other for females. Serologic...
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Choroid plexus tumours in children. Review of 24 cases
24 cases of choroid plexus tumours (16 papillomas and 8 carcinomas) were observed in the Department of Paediatric Neurosurgery, HÔpital des Enfants de la Timone, Marseille France between 1975 and 1989. The cas...
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Effect of the Quality of Infused Energy on Substrate Utilization in the Newborn Receiving Total Parenteral Nutrition
ABSTRACT: Newborn infants (n = 26), subdivided into three groups in which only the nonprotein energy was manipulated, were studied during continuously administered total parenteral nutrition. Nonprotein energy in...
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Use of concurrent G-CSF + GM-CSF vs G-CSF alone for mobilization of peripheral blood stem cells in children with malignant disease
There is limited experience in the mobilization of peripheral blood progenitor cells (PBPC) in children and the optimal method for PBPC mobilization is unknown. The present study was conducted to ascertain whe...
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Cerebral and spinal cord involvement resulting from invasive aspergillosis
Although central nervous system involvement in disseminated aspergillosis is known to occur in immunocompromised patients, particularly after bone marrow transplantation, localized involvement of the spinal co...
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Liquefaction and fluidization structures in Messinian storm deposits (Bajo Segura Basin, Betic Cordillera, southern Spain)
Synsedimentary deformation structures are recognized in Upper Miocene deposits of the eastern Betic Cordillera (SE Spain). A singular stratigraphic section in these deposits shows several levels with soft-sedi...
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Use of Voriconazole to Successfully Treat Disseminated Trichosporon asahii Infection in a Patient with Acute Myeloid Leukaemia
Trichosporon spp. is an emerging fungal pathogen in immunocompromised hosts, and disseminated infection is often fatal in neutropenic patients. Reported here is a case of disseminated infection in a neutropenic ...
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Epigenetic silencing of HSulf-1 in ovarian cancer:implications in chemoresistance
To investigate the mechanism by which HSulf-1 expression is downregulated in ovarian cancer, DNA methylation and histone acetylation of HSulf-1 was analysed in ovarian cancer cell lines and primary tumors. Tre...
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A role for candidate tumor-suppressor gene TCEAL7 in the regulation of c-Myc activity, cyclin D1 levels and cellular transformation
The pathophysiological mechanisms that drive the development and progression of epithelial ovarian cancer remain obscure. Recently, we identified TCEAL7 as a transcriptional regulatory protein often downregula...
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Ecotoxicological evaluation for the screening of areas polluted by mining activities
The aim of this study was to evaluate the applicability of three bioassays representing multiple trophic levels, for the preliminary ecotoxicological screening of sediments from sites contaminated by mining ac...
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The challenge of optimizing expensive black boxes: a scatter search/rough set theory approach
There is renewed interest in the development of effective and efficient methods for optimizing models of which the optimizer has no structural knowledge. This is what in the literature is referred to as optimi...
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Alveolar recruitment with non-invasive mechanical ventilation (C-PAP) in patients with nonobstructive respiratory failure
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Planning federal public investment in Mexico using multiobjective decision making
The scope of this article is showing how multicriteria decision making can be an efficient tool to manage public investment planning in complex situations. For this aim, we will analyse the problem in all its ...
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Monitoring the polymerization process of polypyrrole films by thermogravimetric and X-ray analysis
The thermal behavior of different synthesized polypyrrole (Ppy) composites was studied in order to obtain quantitative information about the synthesis process and qualitative information about thermal stabilit...
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Open AccessHand hygiene improvement program in the Canary Islands, Spain
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A multiobjective model for forest planning with adjacency constraints
This work presents a nonlinear goal programming model with binary variables used to plan the management of a tree plantation, taking economic and environmental objectives into account. The aims are to stay wit...
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Scatter tabu search for multiobjective clustering problems
We propose a hybrid heuristic procedure based on scatter search and tabu search for the problem of clustering objects to optimize multiple criteria. Our goal is to search for good approximations of the efficie...
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Methotrexate consolidation treatment according to pharmacogenetics of MTHFR ameliorates event-free survival in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia
Recent advances in treatment for childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) have significantly increased outcome. High-dose methotrexate (MTX) is the most commonly used regimen during the consolidation peri...
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Offset and gain calibration circuit for MIM-ISFET devices
A programmable calibration circuit for sensors is proposed in this paper. It carries out gain and offset compensation by adding or subtracting appropriate correction factors to the transfer function of each se...
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Biochemical and physiological changes produced by Azotobacter chroococcum (INIFAT5 strain) on pineapple in vitro-plantlets during acclimatization
This study highlights some of the effects of the application of Azotobacter chroococcum (INIFAT5 strain) on in vitro-pineapple plantlets during acclimatization. The bacteria were sprayed immediately after transp...
