Impact of the Host

As discussed in Sec. 3.4.2, the birefringence, dielectric anisotropy, elastic constant, and transition temperatures of dichro- 

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Malnutrition, and its ultimate form cachexia, are encountered every day in cancer and haematology wards. Malnutrition results from the parasitic metabolism of the tumour at the expense of the host, from the impact of the tumour on the metabolism of the host... The major consequence is an increased risk of complications and death during the course of chemotherapy, radiation therapy and major surgery. It is thus important to offer nutritional support, in order to stop or reverse the process of malnutrition. Nutritional intervention should be founded on the abundant literature devoted to cancer cachexia, including the pathophysiology of the disease. .. 

At the outset of any consideration of the host immune response to cestode infection, the first question is why should we be interested in the immune response to cestodes The view could be advanced that the availability of effective anthelminthics and appropriate food preparation methods has reduced the impact of cestode infection on humans to almost an historical oddity. Not so. Tapeworm infection of humans... 

Topological information is quite important to the application, as successful event handling requires the capability to identify the impact of the observed events on the host, and to physically locate it for intervention. As event collection is distributed and heterogeneous, we need to address the different representations of a host that are found in logs. 

A variety of helminths belonging to the class nematoda (roundworms), trema-toda (flatworms or flukes) and cestoda (tapeworms) are known to infect humans and domestic animals. The diseases caused by these worms are not only responsible for occasional deaths and wide range of health problems in man, but also exert detrimental effect on the nutritional and immune status of the host resulting in low resistance against other infections. The presence of helminth infections in livestock leads to decrease in output of animal products (milk, fat, butter, meat, eggs, wool and leather etc.) and has, therefore, strong socio-economic impact in countries with agro-and dairy-based industries [7]. 

The use of NaCl as a mock-silver halide substrate has produced some of the most precise and striking surface determinations ever made, and has done so with a set of procedures remarkably free from criticality or difficulty (22). Historically, the use of NaCl was taken up in the hope of obtaining interpretable LEED patterns from dyed NaCl surfaces as an alternative to unsuccessful experiments on AgBr, where it appeared that the dye was decomposed by the combination of electron impact and the presence of a potentially oxidizing substrate (15). A clear diffraction pattern was obtained from the dyed NaCl however, since epitaxial dye islands were oriented in all possible directions on the crystal surface, the diffraction pattern of the host crystal was simply duplicated - though with an intensity much superior to undyed NaCl. In other words, the LEED experiment indicated only that an epitaxial attachment of dye had occurred. This we already felt we knew. 

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