Pediatric Hematology and Oncology Journal, Volume 25 Issue 1 2008

ISSN: 1521-0669 (electronic) 0888-0018 (paper)
Publication Frequency: 8 issues per year
Subjects: Oncology: Hematologic Oncology; Hematology: Hematologic Oncology; Pediatrics & Child Health;
Publisher: Informa Healthcare

Commentary

ON THE ROAD TO GENE THERAPY FOR b.beta-THALASSEMIA AND SICKLE CELL ANEMIA
1 – 4
Author: Arthur Bank
DOI: 10.1080/08880010701773829

Articles

MRI CHANGES IN THE “NORMAL” PINEAL GLAND FOLLOWING CHEMOTHERAPY FOR SUPRASELLAR GERM CELL TUMORS
5 – 15
Authors: Shannon M. MacDonald; Neal Desai; Gordon Heller; Linda Rolnitzky; Jeffrey C. Allen
DOI: 10.1080/08880010701665777

EARLY DEATH IN CHILDREN WITH ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA: DOES MALNUTRITION PLAY A ROLE?
17 – 26
Authors: Roberto Rivera-Luna; Alberto Olaya-Vargas; Martha Velásquez-Aviña; Silvestre Frenk; Rocío Cárdenas-Cardós; Carlos Leal-Leal; Oscar Pérez-González; Armando Martínez-Avalos
DOI: 10.1080/08880010701774132

POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER AND RISK FACTORS IN PARENTS OF CHILDREN WITH A CANCER DIAGNOSIS
27 – 38
Authors: Irem Yalug; Funda Corapcioglu; Merdan Fayda; Gorkem Aksu; Evic Basar; Kinodotvanc Yalug; Tamer Aker
DOI: 10.1080/08880010701704048

ALLOGENEIC HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION USING A REDUCED-INTENSITY CONDITIONING REGIMEN IN INFANTS: EXPERIENCE AT A SINGLE INSTITUTION IN MEXICO
39 – 47
Authors: Oscar Gonzalez Llano; José Carlos Jaime Perez; Olga Cantu Rodriguez; Consuelo Mancias Guerra; Homero Gutiérrez Aguirre; Jose Luis Herrera Garza; Laura Rodriguez-Romo; David Gomez Almaguer
DOI: 10.1080/08880010701773621

ZINC STATUS IN PATIENTS WITH MAJOR b.beta-THALASSEMIA
49 – 54
Authors: Mahshid Mehdizadeh; Gholamreza Zamani; Shahrzad Tabatabaee
DOI: 10.1080/08880010701773738

ROLE OF GELATINASES (MMP-2 AND MMP-9), TIMP-1, VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR (VEGF), AND MICROVESSEL DENSITY ON THE CLINICOPATHOLOGICAL BEHAVIOR OF CHILDHOOD NON-HODGKIN LYMPHOMA
55 – 66
Authors: Elvan Caglar Citak; Aynur Oguz; Ceyda Karadeniz; Nalan Akyurek
DOI: 10.1080/08880010701826866

Case Reports

LINEZOLID-INDUCED REVERSIBLE BICYTOPENIA IN A 4-YEAR-OLD BOY WITH METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS BACTEREMIA
67 – 71
Authors: Betul Tavil; Yasemin Isinodotk Balci; Inci Yinodotldinodotrinodotm; Yusuf Tavil; Gulten Secmeer; Mehmet Ceyhan; Murat Tuncer
DOI: 10.1080/08880010701703628

1,25-DIHYDROXYVITAMIN D-MEDIATED HYPERCALCEMIA IN OVARIAN DYSGERMINOMA
73 – 78
Authors: Hibi Masahito; Fujio Hara; Hirokazu Tomishige; Yoshihisa Nishida; Takazumi Kato; Naotake Okumura; Takashi Hashimoto; Ryoichi Kato
DOI: 10.1080/08880010701774033

PHYLLODES TUMOR OF THE BREAST IN AN ADOLESCENT GIRL
79 – 82
Authors: Emre Cecen; Kamer Mutafoglu Uysal; Omer Harmancinodotoglu; Pinar Balcinodot; Ali Kupelinodotoglu; Tulay Canda
DOI: 10.1080/08880010701773910

LATE RECURRENCE IN PRIMARY REGION OF PAROSTEAL OSTEOSARCOMA: A CASE REPORT
83 – 88
Authors: Yavuz Köksal; Canan Akyüz; Ali Varan; Bülent Atilla; Gökhan Gedikogbrevelu; Münevver Büyükpamukçu
DOI: 10.1080/08880010701621010
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ACUTE VISION LOSS IN ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA
89 – 90
Authors: Teng-Chih Hsu; Te-Kau Chang; Jiaan-Der Wang
DOI: 10.1080/08880010701620566

Letter to the Editor

DECISION TO PERFORM BONE MARROW ASPIRATION IN IMMUNE THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA MUST BE BASED ON EVIDENCE
91 – 92
Author: P. Anoop
DOI: 10.1080/08880010701620947

Pediatric Hematology and Oncology Journal

Incorporating the International Journal of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology

ISSN: 1521-0669 (electronic) 0888-0018 (paper)

Publication Frequency: 8 issues per year

Subjects: Oncology: Hematologic Oncology; Hematology: Hematologic Oncology; Pediatrics & Child Health;

Publisher: Informa Healthcare

This international bimonthly publishes original articles, short communications, brief reports, reviews, letters, technical notes, book reviews, announcements and editorials/annotations on all aspects of pediatric hematology and oncology. The journal covers immunology, pathology, and pharmacology in relation to blood diseases and cancer in children and shows how basic experimental research can contribute to the understanding of clinical problems. Articles from all over the world are considered for publication. Papers on related ethical, legal, psychological, social, cultural, or historical aspects of these fields are also appreciated. The journal is not dependent on or connected with any organization or society.

Readership

Oncologists, pediatricians, hematologists, immunologists, pathologists, biochemists, and psychologists.

Changing mySQL root user password

It’s a pain in the nuts if you forget your mySQL root password. Here’s an easy way to reset it:

1) Stop any running mySQL deamons

2) Open a text editor and create a new file with the follownig line in it:

SET PASSWORD FOR ‘root’@'localhost’ = PASSWORD(‘<your new password>’);

3)  Run the mySQL deamon and use the –init-file flag to force mySQL to process the change password command:

mysqld_safe –init-file=<the file from step 2> &

You might need to sudo that mysqld_safe command.

7 easy steps to a more secure Wordpress blog

There are many things you can do to secure your wordpress blog – a lot of them are pretty technical are require programming and/or sysadmin knowledge. Here’s a list of easy things that YOU can do to secure your wordpress blog:

1. Remove unused themes (by removing the whole directory)
2. Disable and remove unused plugins.
3. Keep your wordpress version up to date.
4. Keep your used plugins up to date.
5. Add an empty index.html file into the themes and plugins directories. This stop people from browsing to see what themes/plugins you have installed.
6. Install the XSS-Me and SQLInject-Me Firefox plugins and run them against your site.
7. Remove the XMLRPC.PHP file from the root directory of your blog if you are not using XML RPC.

Website Grader rates your website

WebsiteGrader from Hubspot is an online tool that ranks your website for online marketing effectiveness. It gives you hints about easy, mostly non-technical, things you can do to make sure your blog/site reaches the widest audience possible.

http://www.websitegrader.com/Default.aspx

This site ranks at 77% and needs some work! But I’m lazy…..

Securing Wordpress

Danial Cuthbert has written and excellent paper about securing Wordpress using mod_security for Apache.

Read it on BlogSecurity.

List of free Linux eBooks

linuxHaxor.net have compiled a list of free eBooks about, or relating to, Linux.

Free linux ebooks.

AjaxRain.com

AjaxRain.com has many, many web scripts that you can pick up and use. According to the title of the home page, they have 921 scripts and counting.

There’s stuff there for all your favourite frameworks including JQuery, Moo, Protoype, etc.

There’s a handy (and big) tag cloud on each page that makes it easy to search on keywords.

http://www.ajaxrain.com

Getting text width using iText

I love the iText library, love it. It’s so well written, it works, it’s fast. The codebase has been well thought out and exposes every piece of PDF functionality you could ever need.

As I’m back doing some stuff with iText for work I thought I’d post any code snippets that might be useful to other people.

First up, getting the text width of a string when it is rendered using a given font:


BaseFont font = BaseFont.createFont(BaseFont.TIMES_ROMAN, "Cp1252", false);
float stringWidth = font.getWidthPoint( "your string", 12 );

I’m using this to center a watermark vertically on the left hand side of each page. So I can work out where the text needs to go by subtracting the text width from the page height (width from height because the text is being shown vertically). Like so:


PdfContentByte under = stamper.getUnderContent( i );

under.beginText();
BaseFont font = BaseFont.createFont(BaseFont.TIMES_ROMAN, "Cp1252", false);
float watermarkWidth = font.getWidthPoint( "this is the watermark", 12 );
under.setFontAndSize( font, 12 );
float y = ( reader.getPageSize(1).getWidth() / 2 ) - watermarkWidth;
under.setTextMatrix(0, 1, -1, 0, 10, y );
under.showText( "this is the watermark" );
under.endText();


More iText goodness to follow!

Eye-catching photo album

dhteumeuleu.com have released a really nice interactive 3D image gallery.

http://www.dhteumeuleu.com/

I’m thinking it may be possible to modify this script to be used as a website logo. You cold grab the letters for the logo from Flickr and then display them using this script. Hovering around with the mouse would still spin the letters around. Clicking could either zoom them as it does already or could be links to other pages of your site.