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The sustainable light can generate reduction and oxidation centers in situ through the generation of photoexcited electrons and holes in the presence of photocatalyst. However, the photoexcited electrons and holes have huge Coulombic attraction and high exciton binding energy due to the weak screening effect and dielec... |
The standard treatment for epilepsy is anticonvulsant medications. Most patients respond to medical therapy with a reduction and even elimination of seizures. These drugs are generally tolerated well-enough by patients with epilepsy to permit a reasonably preserved quality of life, although often with significant adver... |
Persons with congenital or acquired immunosuppression have long been known to have an increased incidence of lymphoproliferative disorders. Unsurprisingly, therefore, the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), is associated with an increased incidence of lymphoma. T... |
Japanese breast cancer families were collected and classified into the following 7 types according to the onset age and the distribution of other cancers in the family lines; early-onset type, late-onset type, familial breast-ovarian cancer type, familial breast-prostate cancer type, familial breast-thyroid cancer type... |
AIM |
To present a mildly mentally retarded patient with generalized pulp stone formation and the six-year follow-up and to discuss the differential diagnosis of the case. |
SUMMARY |
Pulp stones were radiographically detected in the pulp chamber of all permanent teeth in a 25-year-old woman with mild mental retardation who presented for endodontic treatment on tooth no 11 (FDI). The patient's medical, dental and family history was noncontributory. The pulp stone in the pulp chamber of tooth no 11 w... |
KEY POINTS |
Generalized pulp stones occur rarely; Such patients should be referred for genetic evaluation because pulp stones are mostly associated with genetic dentine defects; Pulp stones may hinder root canal treatment; Pulp stones may remain unchanged overtime.Granulomatous peritonitis caused by Ascaris eggs: a report of three... |
Three cases of granulomatous peritonitis, due to the eggs of Ascaris lumbricoides, are reported. All patients presented with a palpable mass in the abdomen and two patients, in addition, had fever and abdominal pain. Laparotomy was performed and the operative diagnosis in each case was tuberculosis. The diagnosis of As... |
ABSTRACT Apigenin, a potent inhibitor of glucosyltransferase activity, affects the accumulation of Streptococcus mutans biofilms in vitro by reducing the formation of insoluble glucans and enhancing the soluble glucan content of the polysaccharide matrix. In the present study, we investigated the influence of apigenin ... |
This book chapter provides for a review of quantity-based and price-based indicators of regional financial integration. These measures should be easy to construct and interpret, based on publicly available data, and available for many countries and regions over time. The chapter discusses the underlying datasets in gre... |
s, read full-text articles, and extracted data. The quality of the studies was also assessed. MAIN OUTCOMES AND MEASURES Primary outcome was the association between antidepressants during pregnancy and ASDs. Secondary outcomes were the associations between antidepressants in each individual trimester or before pregnanc... |
In Aspergillus oryzae, one full-length chitin synthase (chsB) and fragments of two other chitin synthases (csmA and chsC) were identified. The deduced amino acid sequence of chsB was similar (87% identity) to chsB from Aspergillus nidulans, which encodes a class III chitin synthase. The sequence obtained for csmA indic... |
Abstract Aim Endometriosis is a debilitating disease marked by recurrent gynecological proliferations. The present study aimed at performing differential proteomic analysis of matched eutopic and ectopic endometrium from women with ovarian endometriosis. Materials and methods Proteomes were resolved using nano LC–MS an... |
Plasmonic nanostructures have been shown to act as optical antennas that enhance optical devices. This study focuses on computational electromagnetic (CEM) analysis of GaAs photodetectors with gold interdigital electrodes. Experiments have shown that the photoresponse of the devices depend greatly on the electrode spac... |
Despite increasing availability, the use of parallel platforms in the solution of significant computing problems remains largely restricted to a set of well-structured, numeric applications. This is due in part to the difficulty of parallel application development, which is itself largely the result of a lack of high-l... |
It is a dangerous time to be doing vitamin D research. Within the trajectory of discovery, there are predictable cycles of hope and despair – hyperbolic excitement and evidence-based deflation. The field of vitamin D research is now in a period of evidence-based deflation. Why has vitamin D research attracted so many h... |
Neural progenitor cells have a central role in the development and evolution of the vertebrate brain. During early brain development, neural progenitors first expand their numbers through repeated proliferative divisions and then begin to exhibit neurogenic divisions. The transparent and experimentally accessible optic... |
Deep level transient spectroscopy was used to investigate point defects introduced by room temperature He-ion irradiation in both fully strained and partially relaxed phosphorous doped n-type Si1 − xGex films epitaxially grown on the Si (001) substrate by chemical vapor deposition. Two major point defects are identifie... |
Abstract Objectives Human periodontal ligament stem cells (hPDLSCs) bear multilineage differentiation potential and represent the cytological basis of periodontal tissue regeneration. microRNA (miR) is accepted as a critical regulator of cell differentiation. This study explored the molecular mechanism of miR-200a-3p i... |
The power lines grid has been utilized for low-data-rate applications for some generations. Today, many are the challenges that this technology has presented to the Communications Engineering, when it is intended to offer high-speed data services. This article presents an evaluation of the noise and interference effect... |
No children were eliminated from this study despite the severity of their brain injuries. These children were brain-injured to the extent that the prevailing medical opinion was that it was unlikely that they would regain signifi cant motor function. The children were neurologically evaluated before and after 2 years o... |
We propose Wavelet ANOVA, a simple general-purpose statistical method for analysis of signals and images. We emphasize the application of the method to functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Wavelet ANOVA combines the false discovery rate approach to multiple comparisons with block wavelet thresholding and linea... |
IMPORTANCE |
Chronic periodontitis, a destructive inflammatory disorder of the supporting structures of the teeth, is prevalent in patients with diabetes. Limited evidence suggests that periodontal therapy may improve glycemic control. |
OBJECTIVE |
To determine if nonsurgical periodontal treatment reduces levels of glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) in persons with type 2 diabetes and moderate to advanced chronic periodontitis. |
DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS |
The Diabetes and Periodontal Therapy Trial (DPTT), a 6-month, single-masked, multicenter, randomized clinical trial. Participants had type 2 diabetes, were taking stable doses of medications, had HbA1c levels between 7% and less than 9%, and untreated chronic periodontitis. Five hundred fourteen participants were enrol... |
INTERVENTIONS |
The treatment group (n = 257) received scaling and root planing plus chlorhexidine oral rinse at baseline and supportive periodontal therapy at 3 and 6 months. The control group (n = 257) received no treatment for 6 months. |
MAIN OUTCOMES AND MEASURES |
Difference in change in HbA1c level from baseline between groups at 6 months. Secondary outcomes included changes in probing pocket depths, clinical attachment loss, bleeding on probing, gingival index, fasting glucose level, and Homeostasis Model Assessment (HOMA2) score. |
RESULTS |
Enrollment was stopped early because of futility. At 6 months, mean HbA1c levels in the periodontal therapy group increased 0.17% (SD, 1.0), compared with 0.11% (SD, 1.0) in the control group, with no significant difference between groups based on a linear regression model adjusting for clinical site (mean difference, ... |
CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE |
Nonsurgical periodontal therapy did not improve glycemic control in patients with type 2 diabetes and moderate to advanced chronic periodontitis. These findings do not support the use of nonsurgical periodontal treatment in patients with diabetes for the purpose of lowering levels of HbA1c. |
TRIAL REGISTRATION |
clinicaltrials.gov Identifier: NCT00997178.Nutrient removal potential of emergent ( Scirpus articulatus ) and floating ( Lemna major ) macrophytes |
Nutrient removal capacity of Lemna major (floating macrophyte) was compared with Scirpus articulatus (emergent macrophyte) in hypertrophic mesocosms held in situ . While Lemna removed orthophosphate mainly from waterphase, Scirpus on the other hand, took up their phosphorus exclusively from the sediment. Plant recovery... |
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In this paper, we focus on the equation with double weighted critical exponents, including Hardy–Sobolev, Sobolev, and Hénon–Sobolev critical exponents. Applying the Nehari manifold and the mountain pass theorem, we prove the existence of the ground state solutions for the equation in [Formula: see text]. Based on this... |
The effect of pentobarbital sodium was studied in both rat phrenic nerve-hemidiaphragm and rat sciatic nerve-gastrocnemius preparations. It was found that pentobarbital produced twitch depression leading to a complete neuromuscular blockade. The pentobarbital-induced neuromuscular depression was significantly enhanced ... |
n this issue, we report a significant study by Runciman and colleagues that was designed to measure how well we deliver “appropriate care” to patients in Australia (page 100). The researchers were aiming to reproduce a landmark 2003 study that found that only 55% of patients in the United States received “recommended c... |
Cell-free protein synthesis has emerged in recent years as a powerful tool that can potentially transform the production of recombinant proteins. Cell-free protein synthesis harnesses the synthetic power of living cells while eliminating many of the constraints of traditional cell-based gene expression methods. Due to ... |
A calcium-dependent protease fully active with 0.2 mM Ca2+ was found associated with the neurofilament-enriched cytoskeleton of the rat spinal cord prepared by the treatment with Triton X-100. The enzyme preferentially degrades the 160-kDa component of the neurofilament triplet. In addition, a soluble calcium-dependent... |
Editor – As the authors of ‘Why are medical students ‘checking out’ of active learning in a new curriculum?’, we thank Liz Mossop for her accompanying commentary ‘The curse of the teenage learner’. We appreciate her characterisation of our study as ‘frank and honest’ and agree that helping students to reflect on their ... |
A geometric graph G = (P,E) is a set of points in the plane and edges between pairs of points, |
where the weight of the edge is equal to the Euclidean distance between the points. In k-local |
routing we find a path through G from a source vertex s to a destination vertex t, using only |
knowledge of the present location, the locations of s and t, and the k-neighbourhood of the |
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