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Neutrophils were found to demonstrate chemotactic responses to pepsinized human placental type IV collagen and its purified aminoterminal 7S domain. The maximal chemotactic responses occur at approximately 400 ng/ml and approximately 30 ng/ml of type IV collagen and 7S collagen, respectively, and are similar in magnitu... |
Breast reconstruction after mastectomy positively affects psychosocial well-being; however, the influence of reconstruction on cancer outcomes is unknown. The objective of our study was to compare survival in reconstructed versus nonreconstructed patients after mastectomy. All consecutive female patients diagnosed with... |
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of the use of Plickers program in the structural assessment in order to develop the achievement and motivation of Third Grade Primary students in the Kingdom of Bahrain. To achieve the objective of the study, the researcher used the experimental method by h... |
The impressive growth of secrecy-sensitive wireless applications calls for methods to complement traditional cryptography. In particular, physical-layer security is attractive to enhance communication confidentiality by exploiting the characteristics of the wireless environment. Recent works on information-theoretic wi... |
Stroke and Alzheimer disease are major public health burdens that account for substantial disability and extensive cost.1,2 In addition, these diseases currently tie as the third most common cause of death in the United States,3 and both will become more important as life expectancy increases. Annually, 15 million peop... |
Alzheimer disease accounts for ≈60% to 70% of cases of progressive cognitive impairment in elderly patients in Western societies.5 The prevalence of Alzheimer disease exceeds 4 million in the United States alone,6 and each year, >400 000 new cases are diagnosed. Assuming current trends, the numbers are expected to more... |
Increasing age is the strongest predictor for both stroke and Alzheimer disease. Atherosclerosis is an established risk factor for stroke, but …A Critical Need for Advances in Energy Storage Management Technology |
Energy storage can significantly improve U.S. energy independence, efficiency, and security by enabling a new generation of electric vehicles and by enhancing the capabilities of the U.S. electricity grid. 1 While rapid advances are being made in research and development of new battery materials and storage technologie... |
Amphibians are currently facing widespread population declines, primarily due to the introduction of anthropogenic stressors, which have the potential to alter ecosystem dynamics and elicit long-term physiological responses resulting in overall population declines. Population assessments typically rely upon genomics, d... |
Clinical law teaching has long been part of the American law school curriculum, in the form of judicial externships—clinics that attend to the needs of the elderly, the poor, children, those with special needs, and a host of others. In recent years, many law schools have begun to develop international law-oriented prog... |
The molecular basis of hemoglobin H disease in a Black family of Canadian origin was investigated. Affected individuals had a combination of deletion and nondeletion alpha-thalassemia mutations on different chromosomes. Cloning and sequencing of the DNA of one member with the nondeletion form revealed a new thalassemia... |
The quartz crystal microbalance with dissipation monitoring (QCM-D) is an excellent method for studying the creation of DNA-based surfaces and films. Previous studies have used QCM-D to focus on the construction of DNA surfaces composed of short synthetic DNA oligomers or plasmid DNA. Here, we have used QCM-D to monito... |
Argentina has moved through two defining eras. The first was one of military coups and dictatorships that repeatedly interrupted democratic periods of governance. The second has been one of uninterrupted democratic rule marked by firm military subordination to civilian control. From 1930 to 1976, the Argentine armed fo... |
The last coup, which occurred in 1976, marked a turning point, giving rise to an authoritarian regime that spelled political, economic, and military disaster for the nation. So disgusted was the public with the dictatorship’s incompetence and brutality that it discovered a newfound respect for democratic rules of the ... |
Summary form only given, as follows. The authors present an exploratory study of new product strategy and implementation in a British technology firm. New product strategies at the corporate, business, and project level are examined to determine their congruence. Moreover, strategy implementation at the project level i... |
A 33-year-old women is reported, in whom a urethral condyloma was found 2 years after a preceding condylomatous lesion in the uterine cervix. The urethral condyloma was of the flat type, not previously described in this location, and it was found by an indirect immunoperoxidase-PAP method to contain cells positive for ... |
Transition lines between various phases in the electric-field–temperature phase diagram of 9/65/35 lanthanum lead zirconate titanate ceramics were determined by measurements of the temperature and electric-field–dependent dielectric constant. Above the critical field (EC) the dc bias electric field induces a transition... |
Anorexia nervosa (AN) can result in extreme malnutrition, and these patients frequently require inordinately large amounts of calories to gain weight during refeeding therapy. Insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I) is a polypeptide that mediates many of the anabolic effects of growth hormone. Low levels of IGF-I have bee... |
There are many aspects of nineteenth-century violin playing that have received little attention from scholars. The subject is a vast and complicated one, far beyond the scope of a short article to treat adequately, but there are a number of important areas in which problems have not even been recognized, let alone inve... |
From the perspective of quasi-public goods, this paper studies the investment of the farmland water infrastructure, and uses game theory to analyze government and private investors. It is found that in the presence of investment constraints, the government can not complete quasi-public goods investment in farmland wate... |
This paper reports the design of an innovative CMOS active pixel sensor (CAPS) using Silicon-on-Insulator (SOI) technology. The CAPS designs approach provides the flexibility and high density features of hybrid pixel sensors with photon integration architecture. This sensor is the key component for the optimized biomar... |
In a naturally occurring model of congestive cardiomyopathy-round heart disease of turkeys, Ca2+ transport of isolated cardiac sarcoplasmic reticulum was evaluated at 1, 10, 28, and 56 days of age. Ca2+ binding in round heart disease birds was reduced to between 55% and 75% of values measured in age-matched commercial ... |
Purpose The purpose of the study was to determine the effect of hearing aid technology level on listener outcome measures. In addition, we aimed to determine if individual characteristics such as noise acceptance and the demands of the listening environment impacted performance and preference. Method A repeated-measure... |
This study assesses behavioral disorders and depression in 50 patients with chronic viral hepatitis (32 patients with HBV and 18 patients with HCV). A psychodiagnostic protocol composed of the IBQ and the BDI was administered to the entire sample in two stages—at the time of recruitment (T1) and after 8 months, when pa... |
Some improvements made to overcome the difficulty in the long distance perfusion, temperature maintenance, oxygen supply and the recollection of perfused fluid were described in our Langendorff perfusion in combination of NMR technique with which the rhythmic activity of isolated rat heart can be measured as long as 90... |
Abstract: In the present paper, transitivity of a linear operators acting on a reflexiveBanach space with the weak topology is investigated. We show any bounded operator, transitiveon an open bounded subset of X with the weak topology, is weakly hypercyclic.Key words: Hypercyclic operator; weighted backward shift; weak ... |
There have been many studies about the use of tools by capuchins (Cebus and Sapajus spp.) particularly during the last two decades of the 20th century including experiments in captive settings and to a lesser degree in semi-free and wild conditions (Fragaszy et. al., 2004; Ottoni and Izar, 2008; Visalberghi and Fragasz... |
We investigated whether patients with immunoglobulin E–mediated food allergy differed from healthy individuals with regard to genotype of the polymorphic enzyme N‐acetyltransferase 2 (NAT2). The genetic polymorphism of acetylation can alter the toxic and therapeutic response to certain xenobiotics and may be also a fac... |
Few would disagree about the urgency of ensuring that pregnant HIV-infected women with advanced disease have access to highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART). Not only is HAART a life-saving intervention for this critical societal stratum (young women and mothers), but it clearly reduces pre- and perinatal HIV tr... |
Within a large mostly breast-fed cohort in Tanzania recruited before the widespread availability of HAART, risk factors for mortality to 2 years of age among children who remained uninfected despite being born to HIV-infected mothers were investigated. The study found that uninfected children whose infected mothers had... |
Any benefits of HAART to reduce women’s mortality postpartum contributes alone to better child outcomes, because, for obvious social reasons, orphans have a poor prognosis regardless of their HIV status.5–7 HAART might also be expected to reduce the vulnerability of uninfected children born to immunosuppressed mothers ... |
HAART rapidly leads to improvements in CD4 cell count but reconstitution of B- and T-cell function lags behind.8 If started, on average, 3 months before delivery, it is unclear whether measurable improvements in maternal immunity to common pathogens that threaten infant health are achieved. It is well established that ... |
Exposed-uninfected children have been widely studied to characterize immune responses after HIV exposures that do not result in infection. Multiple immunologic changes have been observed in addition to HIV-specific T-cell responses, including changes in T-cell subsets, cytokine and chemokine production, and maturation ... |
An alternate explanation for the increased risk of uninfected children of women with low CD4 cell counts is increased exposure to other pathogens, given more symptomatic disease and increased shedding. It is therefore of considerable interest that recent data from South Africa observed that exposed-uninfected infants h... |
The number of these vulnerable exposed-uninfected infants is large and growing. This is because there is no consistent decline in HIV seroprevalence among pregnant women in most countries, and there has been considerable progress in expanding access to programs to prevent mother-to-child HIV transmission. As access to ... |
OBJECTIVE |
This work aims to guide clinicians practicing endocrinology in the use of telehealth (synchronous patient-clinician visits conducted over video or telephone) for outpatient care. |
PARTICIPANTS |
The Endocrine Society convened a 9-member panel of US endocrinologists with expertise in telehealth clinical care, telehealth operations, patient-centered care, health care delivery research, and/or evidence-based medicine. |
EVIDENCE |
The panel conducted a literature search to identify studies published since 2000 about telehealth in endocrinology. One member extracted a list of factors affecting the quality of endocrine care via telehealth from the extant literature. The panel grouped these factors into 5 domains: clinical, patient, patient-clinici... |
CONSENSUS PROCESS |
For each domain, 2 or 3 members drew on existing literature and their expert opinions to draft a section examining the effect of the domain's component factors on the appropriateness of telehealth use within endocrine practice. Appropriateness was evaluated in the context of the 6 Institute of Medicine aims for health ... |
CONCLUSIONS |
Telehealth has become a common care modality within endocrinology. This policy perspective summarizes the factors determining telehealth appropriateness in various patient care scenarios. Strategies to increase the quality of telehealth care are offered. More research is needed to develop a robust evidence base for fut... |
The higher-level graphics language LIG has now been operational for over two years. The language has proven to be easy to learn and easy to use, as attested by a number of programmers. Through its use, many improvement possibilities of the syntax and the supporting subprogram system have shown up. |
The experimental design of a higher-level special purpose programming language in terms of the linguistic characteristics of a language extension and its implementation with the aid of a compiler generator is discussed. A consideration of the data type GRAPHICAL, its properties and its manipulation as well as a descri... |
Expanding demand on the Internet services leads to an increased role of the network dimensioning problem for elastic traffic where one needs to allocate bandwidth to maximize service flows and simultaneously to reach a fair treatment of all the elastic services. Thus, both the overall efficiency (throughput) and the fa... |
The bacterial DnaA protein binds to the chromosomal origin of replication to trigger a series of initiation reactions, which leads to the loading of DNA polymerase III. In Escherichia coli, once this polymerase initiates DNA synthesis, ATP bound to DnaA is efficiently hydrolyzed to yield the ADP‐bound inactivated form.... |
This chapter draws out the implications of the author’s argument, both at the scholarly and at the policy level. It outlines future comparative research to assess the validity of the author’s theory beyond the MENA region. This concerns in par ticular the nexus between war, external threats, and social policies. By pr... |
Patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE, lupus) have a markedly better survival rate today than they did 50 years ago, but they face a greater risk of cancer, cardiovascular disease, and osteoporosis at early ages. With better understanding of the immunological mechanisms of the disease, new avenues of therapy ... |
The treatment of 97 infants aged from 3 months to 2 years included: nasotracheal intubation (56 patients); i. v. injection, drops (77 patients) or aerosol inhalations (20 cases) of trasylol, kontrikal or gordox; inhalations of epsilon aminocaproic acid (12 cases); glucocorticoids (locally, inhalations, laryngeal drop i... |
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