Malaria and diarrhea are major causes of illness and death in Africa. These preventable diseases take the biggest toll on children, mostly due to lack of education and adequate resources in the home. The purpose of the reported research project…

This paper demonstrates the importance of knowledge for effective
management of outsourcing. Drawing on an empirical study on automakers?
management of supplier involvement in product development in Japan, this paper shows
that the level of own knowledge is critical for…

In this article we develop a measure to approximate the diffusion of product-embodied R&D that takes place by means of the intermediate purchases of KIBS in 19 of the EU27 countries over the period 2000-2005. The results obtained confirm a…

Thrombocytopenia, which is defined as platelet count below 150x 109/L , is the second most commonly encountered hematologic abnormality during pregnancy following anemia. When the etiology of pregnancy-specific isolated thrombocytopenia is examined, it is seen that most common reason is…

We comment on subsethood measure defined by Kosko and Young and give some new aspects of these measures. Finally we would like to discard the entropy subsethood relationship established by the authirs. We present some properties of subsethood measure from…

Abstract Thyroid hemiagenesis is a rare abnormality in which one thyroid lobe with or without isthmus fails to develop. It is usually found incidentally in patients who are evaluated for some other disease. Thyroid scintigraphy with Tc-99m pertechnetate and ultrasonography…

Swyer syndrome is a kind of gonadal dysgenesis characterized by a female phenotype and 46 XY karyotype. Bilateral dysgenetic gonads have a high potential for malignancy. A 16-years-old female was presented to our hospital with  primary amenorrhea. Pelvic ultrasound revealed…

The aim of this paper is to present results from collaboration of computer engineers and experimenters in microbiology working with molecular-genetic methods. The experimenters in microbiological laboratory at the University of Food Technologies use ARDRA (Amplified Ribosomal DNA Restriction Analysis)…

Prothrombin time (PT), a test for analysis of coagulation extrinsic pathway, is used for disorders of coagulation, to assess the risk of bleeding in patients undergoing operative procedures, monitororing of the patients being treated with oral anticoagulant therapy, and evaluate…

Sepsis is characterized with increased free oxygen metabolites that lead to multiple organ dysfunction. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of lidocaine on oxidative/antioxidant system in rats with sterile and sepsis-induced liver injury. 44 Swiss-Albino male…