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Conclusions |
The detected values imply that the YBT-UQ is a reliable field test that can be used to detect changes of upper quarter mobility/stability in healthy adolescents aged 12-17 years. |
Level of Evidence |
2b.Circuit Function Characterizing Tunability of Resonators |
In this paper we study a sensitivity function of resonance frequencies to capacitance change in resonators with capacitive tuning, which characterizes the local tunability. This function is a circuit function, similar to the input and transmission functions. The features of the sensitivity function, leading to tunabili... |
ABSTRACT This study draws on national survey data from the United States of America (USA) and the Netherlands to compare family obligations and support behaviour for middle-generation adults who have a living aged parent and adult child. Consistent with a familialism by default hypothesis based on welfare state differe... |
We evaluated telephone triage (TT) data for public health early warning systems. TT data is electronically available and contains coded elements that include the demographics and description of a caller's medical complaints. In the study, we obtained emergency room TT data and after hours TT data from a commercial TT s... |
Four hundred and forty-two samples from children, age 0-5 years old, with acute diarrhoea attending hospitals and clinics in Jos between May 1986 to April 1987 were examined for the presence of rotavirus by the enzyme linked immunosorbent assay. One hundred and forty-six of these samples were positive, giving a prevale... |
Forecasting time series accurately is critical to ensure the safety and reliability of complex system. So, time series prediction has been a popular subject. Normally, the information used in time series prediction is always mined from multi-variable time series and small simple data. Thus, based on grey prediction the... |
Aim: To investigate acceptance and usage issues in relation to Telehealth products as used by frail older clients of the Transition Care Program and their carers. Method: The study design was a quasi-randomised controlled clinical trial. A stratified random sample of participants was allocated to one of five groups usi... |
Advances in laparoscopic technique have provided the opportunity to perform preperitoneal herniorrhaphy and potentially avoid the morbidity associated with open techniques. From January 1991 to May 1992, two primary surgeons repaired 63 inguinal hernias (42 indirect, 20 direct, 1 femoral) on 48 patients using a standar... |
Atrial natriuretic factors (ANFs) are a group of peptide hormones synthesized in mammalian atrial cardiocytesl that exhibit natriuretic, diuretic, and vasorelaxant activities (for review, see reference 2). Various lengths of ANF peptide molecules have been purified, sequenced, and synthesized. The amino acid sequences ... |
Without the contribution of informal carers of disabled, sick and older people, organised social care in England and Wales could not cope. However, carers can often experience financial hardship,, poor health and social isolation, and may find it difficult to combine work and care. The government has developed policies... |
OBJECTIVE |
To clone and express the recombinant amyloid beta-protein (Abeta(42)) antigen and develop a method for detecting Abeta antibody. |
METHODS |
Two partially complementary fragments of Abeta(42) gene were chemically synthesized for constructing the Abeta(42) gene by PCR. The resultant Abeta(42) gene fragment was subcloned into pGEX-2T expression vector for inducing the expression of GST-Abeta(42) fusion protein, which was purified by affinity chromatography. T... |
RESULTS |
GST-Abeta(42) fusion protein was successfully expressed as an soluble protein, which, after purification, was found to have a relative molecular mass of 31 kD. About 800 mg of GST-Abeta(42) fusion protein were obtained from l L cell culture with a purity over 95%. Western blotting demonstrated specific reaction of this... |
CONCLUSION |
GST-Abeta(42) fusion protein may serve as a substitute for the expensive Abeta(42) peptide for detecting Abeta antibody.Epidemic and endemic cholera trends over a 33-year period in Bangladesh. |
Despite nearly 200 years of study, the mechanisms contributing to the maintenance of endemic cholera and the causes of periodic epidemics remain poorly understood. To investigate these patterns, cholera data collected over 33 years (1966-1998) in Matlab, Bangladesh, were analyzed. Time-lagged autocorrelations were stra... |
This chapter provides elaboration of stakeholder theory, commencing with four general perspectives on stakeholder theory as identified by Donaldson and Preston (1995). This is followed by a discussion of how CSR or corporate social responsibility has influenced thinking about stakeholders and forms an integral part of ... |
Defining and classifying stakeholders is the third major topic covered, drawing first on generic stakeholder theory and commencing with a discussion of primary and secondary, active and passive stakeholders. Particularly attention is given to the framework provided by Mitchell, Agle and Wood (1997) that defines ‘stockh... |
The Impact of Upper Face Botulinum Toxin Injections on Eyebrow Height and Forehead Lines: A Randomized Controlled Trial and an Algorithmic Approach to Forehead Injection ". |
The Impact of Upper Face Botulinum Toxin Injections on Eyebrow Height and Forehead Lines: A Randomized Controlled Trial and an Algorithmic Approach to Forehead Injection Sir: W read with interest the recent article by Jabbour et al. (Plast Reconstr Surg. 2018;142:121–1217).1 We appreciate the authors’ excellent work. H... |
Abstract There is increasing awareness of the need to use Performance Validity Tests (PVTs) when assessing cognitive abilities in children. Since 1996, there has been an ongoing clinical study of the use of three PVTs with a consecutive series of 1,285 developmentally disabled children. In this study, we report on the ... |
Observability of new particles predicted by little Higgs models at the LHC has been studied using a simulation of the ATLAS detector. We discuss first the channels available for the discovery of the new heavy quark T , then for new gauge bosons A H , Z H and W H , and finally for the doubly charged Higgs boson φ ++ . Mos... |
The problem of target classification using inverse synthetic aperture radar (ISAR) images is studied under conditions of mass data processing, sparse scattering centre distribution, image deterioration and variation with the radar imaging view, all of which make target classification difficult. In this study, the autho... |
We read with interest the two articles recently published by Tognetti et al about Pyemotes ventricosus detection in a baby's skin folds and an alternative hypothesis for mite identification. We have been interested for a long time in ectoparasitoses and particularly in dermatitis caused by P ventricosus working in clos... |
This study was motivated by the increasing number of foreign manpower entering and working in Indonesia since the implementation of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) by the end of 2015. Therefore, this research intends to study the prosperity and the bargaining position of outsourced labours in the AEC era. To examine... |
What causes seasons? Why day and night durations are so different with seasons? Why the position of the full moon seems directed to the south in summer while it seems directed to the north in winter? |
It is the purpose of this computer simulation to provide an interactive application, programmed in Java language to explore the issues related to the above questions.F-SEONS: a second-order frequency domain algorithm for convolutive source separation in noisy environments [speech recognition applications] |
Convolutive source separation is a problem of restoring original unknown sources from multiple sensor signals that are modelled as convolutive mixtures of mutually independent sources. It is a fundamental problem which plays a critical role in cocktail party speech recognition. Most of existing methods neglected the ef... |
It was shown previously that follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH)-induced cumulus expansion was suppressed by sulfated glycosaminoglycans (GAGs), and it was suggested that the action of the GAGs was distal to FSH-stimulated elevation of intracellular cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP). To test this hypothesis for the ... |
We study the problem of analyzing indoor location estimation by statistical radial distribution model. In this study, we suppose the observed distance data between transmitter and receiver as a statistical radial distribution. The proposed method is based on the marginal likelihoods of radial distribution generated by ... |
Efficient antigen presentation is a prerequisite for the development of a T-cell-mediated immune response in vitro and in vivo. As “nature’s adjuvant”, dendritic cells (DCs) are the most prominent professional antigen-presenting cells (APCs). However, they have several significant disadvantages concerning application a... |
However, antigen-processing and -presentation by antigen-specific B cells is 1000-fold more effective compared to polyclonal B cells. Therefore, tumorantigen-specific B cells were used in the present study to improve the antigen-presenting function of CD40B cells. Purified tumorantigen-specific B cells highly upregulat... |
Tremendous amount of data is present in the form of scanned document ScD or in digital image format. To extract information present in documents Optical Character Recognition OCR of these documents is unavoidable. OCR software [2], [3] internally segments pieces of word and OCR that specific parts. So to the great exte... |
The mechanics of sediment transport are of fundamental importance for fluvio‐deltaic morphodynamics. The present study focuses on quantifying particle motions and trajectories across a wide range of flow conditions. In particular, a continuous model is presented that predicts particle travel distances for saltation and... |
A case report is presented of a 12‐month‐old infant who developed lingual oedema after the prolonged use of an inappropriately large laryngeal mask airway (LMATM). A size 2½ LMA was used in a 10.6 kg infant during a 5 h operative procedure. Postoperatively, the patient developed significant tongue oedema, which gradual... |
Sclerosing Angiomatoid Nodular Transformation (SANT) of spleen is a benign, rare, vascular disease. We report a case of 13-year old female with left upper abdominal pain, ultrasound revealing a hypoechoic lesion in spleen; laparoscopic splenic resection was performed. The definitive diagnosis of SANT was based on histo... |
The physical effects of CS spray are well documented. However, less is known about the impact of its use by the police on the psychological health of those exposed. In this study we explored the psychiatric morbidity of a group of 30 individuals who experienced the same trauma, a significant part of which was exposure ... |
Intracellular proteolysis was studied in both thalassemic and normal reticulocytes. The main experiment comprised a short incubation of RBC with [3H] leucine, extensive washings, and further incubation in the presence of cold leucine and protein synthesis inhibitors. In the aliquots removed at various time intervals, t... |
The design of the Southern African Large Telescope (SALT), which is based closely on the Hobby-Eberly Telescope (HET) at the University of Texas but includes advances incorporating lessons learned from HET, is briefly reviewed. The flowdown of requirements from the optical error budget to the primary mirror control sub... |
DOI:10.1097/CCO.0000000000000551 Sarcomas and aggressive connective tissue tumours represent a large family of heterogeneous mesenchymal malignancies, with over 80 histological subtypes in the 2013 WHO classification [1]. This histological classification, progressively evolving and complexifying, is completed with a hi... |
The stacked quad EMC super patch with probe feeding was first proposed in [1] and a number of design results for personal communication terminals were provided in [2]. It has wide bandwidth of stacked microstrip antennas and higher gain due to the radiation of subarray. On the other hand, aperture coupling[3] can reduc... |
Noninvasive breath tests for gastric emptying are important techniques for understanding the changes in gastric motility that occur in disease or in response to drugs. Mice are often used as an animal model; however, the gamma variate model currently used for data analysis does not always fit the data appropriately. Th... |
To obtain reaction zone parameters for several high explosives, experimental measurements of the detonation wave profiles in HMX-, RDX- and PETN-based explosives were performed using photon Doppler velocimetry (PDV). Planar detonations were produced by impacting the explosive with a sapphire flyer in a gas gun. Particl... |
Medicinal plants of Pakistan are known for their curative properties against snake bite as rural people have been using natural herbs for such injuries for hundreds to thousands of years. People of rural areas of Pakistan are prone to snakebite, and on the whole death due to snakebite has been increasing worldwide. The... |
abstract: Haemoproteus (Parahaemoproteus) micronuclearis n. sp., Haemoproteus (Parahaemoproteus) nucleofascialis n. sp., Haemoproteus (Parahaemoproteus) paranucleophilus n. sp., and Haemoproteus (Parahaemoproteus) homobelopolskyi n. sp. (Haemosporida, Haemoproteidae) are described from African passeriform birds based ... |
Northern fowl mites, Ornithonyssus sylviarum (Canestrini & Fanzago) (Acari: Macronyssidae), were fed artificially through chick skin membranes to investigate several factors that affected the degree of mite feeding. More mites fed after starving 24 h than unstarved mites or mites starved 48 or 72 h. Protonymphs fed as ... |
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