Pemphigus vegetans is a rare variant of pemphigus vulgaris and is characterized by flaccid bullae, which become eroded and form vegetations or papillomatous proliferations, especially in the intertriginous areas. Oral administration of corticosteroids alone does not always induce disease remission in pemphigus vegetans. We report a 44-year-old Japanese man with pemphigus vegetans. Although corticosteroid therapy resulted in healing of the oral ulcers and skin bullae, verrucous vegetations continued to develop. In contrast, by combining corticosteroid with etretinate, verrucous vegetations improved. Thus we propose that the combination therapy of steroid and etretinate might be an effective adjunct in the therapy of pemphigus vegetans.
White clover (Trifolium repens) is a valuable pasture component that is frequently present in insufficient quantity for optimal animal nutrition. Several methods of reintroducing white clover into a permanent pasture without conventional tillage were investigated. Three seeders (Hunter, Vredo and a conventional seed drill), two white clover cultivars (Sacramento, and Sonja), two pasture pre‐treatments (a hard spring grazing or grazing plus light harrowing) and two defoliation regimes (grazing or mowing) were used to determine optimal seedling establishment conditions. Defoliation treatments were used as a method of investigating pasture improvement experiments. Measurements were taken to determine proportion of white clover present and total herbage mass.
Plots renovated using a Hunter drill had the highest white clover content in the months immediately after renovation. Subsequently pre‐treatment method appeared to have no significant effect on herbage mass or species composition. The proportion of white clover in plots sown with the cultivar Sacramento was frequently higher than that in plots sown with the cultivar Sonja, but, overall, herbage production of cultivars was not different.
Mowed plots had higher herbage production and tended towards a greater white clover content than grazed plots. Compaction of the surface to a depth of 10 cm in the grazed plots may have been a factor in the observed difference in herbage production. Regardless of management, within two years white clover content was similar among all treatments, including controls.
This paper proposes a method for generating user profile from user's TV watching behavior using sentiment analysis. Personalized technologies such as information recommendation are currently hot topic of Web intelligence. Among them, TV program recommendation is expected to be one of the practical applications in near future, as digital TV service and partner robots providing personalized support are getting into our living environment. The proposed method does not estimate user's interest in a TV program only from its watching time as most of existing methods do, but also from user's utterances by applying sentiment analysis. The method employs fuzzy inference for estimating the user's rating of a TV program. A user profiles with bookmark format is generated based on the estimated rating of TV programs. Experiments are performed by collecting TV watching logs with diary-based approach, and the results show the proposed method can generate a user profile that can reflect user's interests.
function to normal level and improvement of visibility, visual field, and blood pressure were noted. On the contrary, total removal of tumor in preoperative normoreactive response cases caused absolute adrenal insufficiency within one year.
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