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Occupational diseases in clothing industry affect quality of life, social and professional performance of the employees. |
In clothing industry many risk factors affect workers’ health. There is a significant association between length of occupational experience in this branch and social aspects of occupational diseases. Occupational diseases in clothing industry affect capability of work and daily routines of employees. They have been as... |
Methods of reducing allogeneic blood demand in orthopedic surgery. |
Despite advances in this field, allogeneic blood transfusion still carries a lot of risk; the availability of heterologous blood is also constantly decreasing. We describe the most popular methods for reducing the allogeneic blood requirement. Basic information is presented about the physiological mechanisms of compens... |
In this paper, we present the principles of a low operational-cost but flexible Internet-based traffic management support system. Most of the past systems were implemented with machine vision (image processing), RFID gateways, aerial surveillance, and/or remote sensors technologies. However, the major drawbacks of the ... |
There is nothing unique in a call for increased attention to the policy dimensions of biological developments. Almost two decades ago, Caldwell (1964:2) urged a “policy synthesis of scientific knowledge and ethical values” in response to the public policy questions raised 1JY the “explosion of biomedical knowledge and ... |
OBJECTIVE |
To compare the effect of ouabain on the blood pressure of rats with that of digoxin to find the evidences of the relationship between endogenous ouabain (EO) and development of hypertension. |
METHODS |
Sprague-Dawley rats, which were divided into 3 groups, were infused with ouabain (23 x 75 micrograms.kg-1/day, i.p.), digoxin (36 x 84 micrograms.kg-1/day, i.p.) and normal saline (NS) once a day respectively. Systolic blood pressure and body weight were recorded weekly. Five weeks later, rats of ouabain group were ran... |
RESULTS |
After a latent period of one week, blood pressure of Ouabain group increased significantly [95.4 +/- 11.8 mmHg (1 mmHg = 0.133 kPa) at the beginning of the experiment vs 122.5 +/- 16.9 mmHg at the end of week 6, P < 0.05] with normal plasma renin activity and higher aldosterone (1.28 +/- 0.45 ng/ml vs 0.69 +/- 0.27 ng/... |
CONCLUSIONS |
Our results suggested that EO might be one of the causes of the development of hypertension. Aldosterone might play some role in the mechanism of ouabain-induced hypertension. Digoxin can not induce hypertension. There is a great difference between the effect of ouabain and digoxin on the blood pressure. Moreover, digo... |
Since the end of the Second World War, the ruling paradigm pertaining to international trade policy has been ‘fostering liberalization of trade and economic integration.’ The paradigm evolved through a convergence of a variety of different forces and has been a constant for approximately seventy years. The European Uni... |
Abstract The aim of the study was to evaluate the effects of administration of 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH) D] on serum antimullerian hormone (AMH) levels in infertile women. The study was performed as a non-randomized clinical trial on 30 infertile women who had low serum level of both 25(OH) D and anti-mullerian hormo... |
Sentinel node detection in patients with breast cancer is routinely performed in our department. Images frequently show star-shaped activity at the site of injection caused by septum penetration. These star-shaped artifacts could possibly impair visualization of nearby sentinel nodes. The aim of this study was to deter... |
Treatment with an iron-chelating substance (alpha, alpha'-dipyridyle) provokes alterations in the seminiferous tubules and interstitial tissue of rat testicular parenchyma. The action of the drug seems to be dependent neither on the dose nor on the duration of the treatment. The effects of the drug appear in the testic... |
The prognostic influence of adenoidectomy on the clinical course of chronic secretory otitis media (SOM) is reported after an observation period of five years in 166 children. Adenoidectomy was performed in connection with the first tubulation on the basis of concurrent symptoms of nasal obstruction, and resulted in a ... |
Exposure to ionizing radiation is considered by NASA to be a major health hazard for deep space exploration missions. Ionizing radiation sensitivity is modulated by both genomic and environmental factors. Understanding their contributions is crucial for designing experiments in model organisms, evaluating the risk of d... |
With the spread of smartphones there is a growing demand for free charging space. That the rotation rate is reduced by a long period of time of use. In the fixed time charging is that there may not be charged until the charging amount expected. Current decreases in accordance with the charge amount, charging at a const... |
African Americans have been active producers throughout the history of the United States; however, during most of this history, their role in such capacities has been ignored, lost, destroyed, excluded, omitted, sporadically documented, or contained in books read by an elite few. This research reveals critical moments ... |
According to the classical theory, teeth derive from odontodes that invaded the oral cavity in conjunction with the origin of jaws (the ‘outside in’ theory). A recent alternative hypothesis suggests that teeth evolved prior to the origin of jaws as endodermal derivatives (the ‘inside out’ hypothesis). We compare the tw... |
Widow benefits have been a part of the Social Security program since the 1939 amendments to the Social Security Act (widower benefits were added later). For many years, the Social Security law called for paying a widow(er) a fraction of the deceased worker's primary insurance amount (PIA). However, the worker--while al... |
This study examines the relationships among hostility, grandiosity, dominance, narcissism, and self-esteem in samples of 84,57, and 300 Ss. The intercorrelations among various self-report and observer ratings of these constructs suggest that (a) hostility, grandiosity, dominance, and narcissism are substantially interc... |
Additive manufacturing promises high flexibility and customized product design. Powder bed fusion processes use a laser to melt a polymer powder at predefined locations and iterate the scheme to build 3D objects. The design of flowable powders is a critical parameter for a successful fabrication process that currently ... |
Abstract This study aims to explore the effect of recombinant human bone morphogenetic protein-2 (rhBMP-2) on bone formation when treated with epidermal growth factor (EGF) using human mesenchymal stem cells (hMSCs) and a rabbit tibial defect model. The rhBMP-2 (250 ng/ml)+EGF (10 ng/ml) group showed higher alkaline ph... |
Aiming at the special needs of transmission lines for repelling birds, this article conducted stress experiments on various bird repellent spices, selected and compounded highly effective bird repellent spices; PVDF particles were used as the main carrier material, and dry-wet phase conversion technology was adopted. S... |
Screening for HIV-1 infection in pregnant women is the cornerstone of all prevention of mother-to-child transmission (MTCT) programs. It should ideally allow the timely administration of antiretroviral agents to both the mother and the newborn, and implementation of comprehensive prevention of MTCT protocols that may o... |
The issue of hemispheric asymmetry in speech processing is one of the most debatable ones in modern neuroscience and psychophysiology. The studies in my thesis addressed this issue by magnetically measuring brain responses elicited by speech and complex sound stimuli of different temporal structure in different acousti... |
Furthermore it is worth noting that the shape of a blimp is itself an airfoil, and that’s part of the reason, in addition to the lifting gas, why, with a heavy load, it can fly. Blimps are part balloon, part airplane—a half-breed, only half-deserving the tag of “lighter-than-air”; and a flight in one, with the roar of ... |
Stomatal responses to leaf-to-air vapour pressure deficit (LVPD), leaf water potential components, and cuticular properties were characterized for Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) foliage collected from tree tops along a height gradient from 5 m to 58 m in order to explore height-related trends in stomatal sensitivi... |
Purpose |
To identify pre-, intra-, and postoperative factors influencing the improvement of the activities of daily living (ADL) in newly diagnosed patients with glioblastoma (GBM), we investigated the characteristics and variable factors and overall survival. |
Methods |
A total of 105 patients with GBM were retrospectively analyzed and categorized into three groups according to the quartile of change of Barthel index score from admission to discharge: deterioration (n = 25), no remarkable change (n = 55), and good recovery (n = 25). We compared with the characteristics, variable facto... |
Results |
There was statistically different in the pre-, intra-, and post-operative factors between the groups. Multiple regression analysis identified four significant predictor variables that may influence the improvement of ADL after surgery: the improvement of motor paralysis after surgery, mild fatigue during chemoradiother... |
Conclusion |
This study identified four factors influencing the improvement of ADL after surgery. In addition, a structured inpatient rehabilitation programs can be performed safely and improve functional outcomes, which may contribute to the survival prognosis.An Overview on Recent Researches of Uncertain Group Decision Making: Me... |
The uncertain group decision-making (UGDM) methodology has developed rapidly in recent years, which is synchronous with the evolution of fuzzy set (FS) theory and linguistic term set theory. Generally, the UGDM methods can be divided into three categories, i.e., the multi-attribute decision-making (MADM) methods, the p... |
Social medicine deals with the interplay between medicine and society. An awareness of how analytical categories have emerged historically can strengthen the role the discipline can play in the societal reinventions of health care now under way around the world. This study examines the categories that informed social m... |
Thomas Hardy’s remark on the concept of ‘becoming’ in his autobiographical entry of July 1887 suggests that the moment of stasis is paradisal while the temporal progression inherent in ‘becoming’ offers no promise of happiness. Stillness, Hardy says, is idyllic, as it (presumably) offers the stoppage of pain and suffer... |
Depression, one of the commonest illnesses, is often under-diagnosed and under-treated (Cowen, 1996; Chehil et al., 2000). Furthermore, of those who are treated adequately, only about 70% show a response to treatment and only about 40% reach full remission (Cowen, 1996; Chehil et al., 2000). The consequences of failure... |
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PREMISE OF THE STUDY |
Quantifying the genetic variability, fitness costs, and selection gradients associated with plant defense traits is necessary to understand their evolution and continued persistence in populations. Few studies have simultaneously examined the costs, benefits, and genetic variability in multiple traits related to plant ... |
METHODS |
Using 103 Solidago altissima (Asteraceae) genets from two populations previously studied in situ, we conducted a common garden experiment to assess genetic variability, costs, selection gradients, and correlations among resistance, tolerance, and various resistance and tolerance traits (i.e., lateral branching, relativ... |
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