Biomedical subjects
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We report two sets of twins with agenesis and ectopia of the gall-bladder. It is important to be aware of this condition, as many of these patients present with biliary-type pain and have unnecessary laparotomies. The literature on this condition is reviewed.
A theorem, analogous to the continuous time Threshold Theorem of Kermack and McKendrick, is proved for a certain discrete time epidemic model. This model, in contrast to its continuous time analogue, leads to some solutions in which the total population of susceptibles may become infected in a finite time.
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When yeast cells reproduce, scars are left on the parent cell where the offspring has budded. Using a branching process model, it is possible to obtain the expectations of numbers of cells with 0, 1, 2, ... offspring. In this paper, theoretical results are tested against empirical data for three types of yeast cells. We examine the hypothesis that birth and death rates of cells with no previus offspring may differ from those of cells with one or more offspring. It is suggested that the oscillatory empricial results for the proportions of cells with 0, 1, 2, 3 and 4 offspring may be due to different mean budding times for these cells.