Creatine excretion in diabetes mellitus

Dupuytren's contracture is a common condition in diabetes mellitus. One of the authors has described 120 of these cases among 381 diabetics in the older age group. Steinberg has stated that in Dupuytren's contracture the creatine excretion in the urine is increased and suggests that both in this condition and in fibrositis there is an abnormality in tissue metabolism. He found that the total amount of creatine excreted per 24 hours in cases of primary fibrositis was 264-918 mg. (in this group he included Dupuytren's contracture). In 12 out of 15 cases it was over 300 mg. per 24 hours. In view of this suggestion and the frequency of Dupuytren's contracture in diabetes, it was decided to investigate the creatine excretion in a series of diabetic patients

A comparison of two pregnancy tests

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The relationship between serum protien-bound iodine and intelligence in a group of Bantu from Portuguese East Africa

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Two cases of cushing's syndrome

Two patients, one with Cushing's syndrome and one with Cushing's disease, are presented. In the first case the syndrome was caused by a tumour of the right suprarenal gland which was treated by unilateral adrenalectomy, and the second case was diagnosed as hyperplasia of the left suprarenal gland, eventually leading to removal of all cortical tissue. Subsequently the typical features of Nelson's syndrome developed.S. Af. J. 48, 725 (1974)

An outbreak of food-poisoning due to a flour improver, potassium bromate

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Percutaneous absorption of a corticosteroid (Betamethasone valerate) in combination with an antibiotic (Gentamicin)

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Arcus senilis corneae-its relationship to serum lipids in the South African bantu

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A study of summer diarrhoea in white children in Johannesburg

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Survey of nucleon electromagnetic form factors

A dressed-quark core contribution to nucleon electromagnetic form factors is calculated. It is defined by the solution of a Poincare' covariant Faddeev equation in which dressed-quarks provide the elementary degree of freedom and correlations between them are expressed via diquarks. The nucleon-photon vertex involves a single parameter; i.e., a diquark charge radius. It is argued to be commensurate with the pion's charge radius. A comprehensive analysis and explanation of the form factors is built upon this foundation. A particular feature of the study is a separation of form factor contributions into those from different diagram types and correlation sectors, and subsequently a flavour separation for each of these. Amongst the extensive body of results that one could highlight are: r_1^{n,u}>r_1^{n,d}, owing to the presence of axial-vector quark-quark correlations; and for both the neutron and proton the ratio of Sachs electric and magnetic form factors possesses a zero.Comment: 43 pages, 17 figures, 12 tables, 5 appendice

Precise predictions for the Higgs production in association with a W-boson pair at ILC

The Higgs-boson production in association with a W-boson pair at $e^+e^-$ linear colliders is one of the important processes in probing the coupling between Higgs-boson and vector gauge bosons and discovering the signature of new physics. We describe the impact of the complete electroweak(EW) radiative corrections of ${\cal O}(\alpha_{ew})$ to this process in the standard model(SM) at the International Linear Collider(ILC), and investigate the dependence of the lowest-order(LO) and EW next-to-leading order(NLO) corrected cross sections on colliding energy $\sqrt{s}$ and Higg-boson mass. The LO and NLO EW corrected distributions of the invariant mass of W-boson pair and the transverse momenta of final $W$- and Higgs-boson are presented. Our numerical results show that the relative EW radiative correction($\delta_{ew}$) varies from -19.4% to 0.2% when $m_H=120 GeV$ and $\sqrt{s}$ goes up from $300 GeV$ to $1.2 TeV$.Comment: 18 pages, 7 figure