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Cardio pulmonary resuscitation (cpr) is an emergency procedure performed on people under cardiac arrest and on people who stop breathing due to reasons such as drowning . Cpr's main benefit is that it maintains blood flow, which prevents tissue and brain damage . The procedure involves creating artificial blood circula... |
There are 20 class i genes and in transplantation hla - a, b, and c are the classic genes referenced to when typing the recipient . Class i major histocompatibility complex (mhc) molecule processing and loading of peptides occurs in all nucleated cells, where class ii mhc molecule involves primarily b cells, macrophage... |
Science aims to provide simple and general explanations for natural phenomena, and all sciences must deal with the problem of heterogeneity . Variation and heterogeneity are the hallmarks of biological diversity and capture the attention of anyone interested in trying to unravel the mysteries of the biological world . ... |
Assemble the chamber (design illustrated in figure 1). Place two beads of vacuum grease, spaced ~8 - 10 mm apart, across the recording chamber to form a channel for superfusate and in which to embed the retinal slices . Add a second bead of grease a few millimeters farther out beyond each of these two beads of grease t... |
. High rate of spontaneous remissions is known in patients with early disease that present constellation of specific features called lfgren's syndrome . On the other hand, an insidious onset of the disease without lfgren's syndrome sarcoidosis progression has not been associated with any particularly specific immunolog... |
Thyroid cancer accounts for 12% of all malignancies, representing the most common endocrine malignancy . Papillary carcinoma (ptc) is the most frequent among thyroid malignancies, whereas medullary thyroid carcinoma (mtc) accounts for 510% of cases . Mtc, on the other hand, originates from parafollicular cells of the u... |
There is no definition of treatment - resistant bipolar depression in the literature . The international society for bipolar disorders (isbd) task force published their consensus definition of treatment response in bipolar depression1 and proposed a nomenclature for relapse, remission, and recurrence, but did not defin... |
Since childers et al initially reported the laparoscopic surgical management of 2 cases of stage i endometrial cancer, many studies have advocated the advantages of laparoscopically assisted staging surgery (lass) compared with laparotomic staging surgery in women with endometrial cancer . Laparoscopic surgical managem... |
A literature search was performed up to march 2011 in 13 international databases: african index medicus, anthropology plus, british nursing index and archive, the cochrane library, embase, epoc, medline, pilots, popline, psycinfo, social services abstracts, sociological abstracts, and wholis . It was supplemented with ... |
Overweight and obesity have been defined as abnormal or excessive accumulations of fat in the body that may impair health . Overweight and obesity results from an energy imbalance in the amount of calories consumed and the amount of calories expended . The rise of overweight and obesity globally has been attributed pri... |
Proliferating cell nuclear antigen (pcna) serves as a processivity factor (sliding clamp), encircling dna at sites of replication and repair (15). The subunits come together to form a remarkable ring - like structure with characteristic pseudo 6-fold symmetry and a central hole large enough to accommodate double - stra... |
Patients admitted to kitunan hospital in suzenji, japan from may 1999 and april 2007 with acute psychomotor excitation were studied retrospectively . The inclusion criteria were: (i) patients diagnosed with schizophrenia according to the diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders, 4th edition (dsm - iv); (ii... |
However many people refuse it because of fear of needle and back pain.1 many techniques have been used to obtund pain of needle insertion including infiltration analgesia and emla patch . Local anesthetics themselves may produce pain on injection and many anesthetists are unsure that infiltration analgesia at the site ... |
The essential function of a classification system is as a navigation tool that helps direct research, evaluate outcomes, establish guidelines for best practices for prevention and care, and educate on all of the above . Diabetes mellitus (dm) subtypes as currently categorized, however, do not fit into our contemporary ... |
Considering the rapidly burgeoning older population, increased attention is being given to an accurate assessment of older adults' cognitive and neuropsychological functioning . Part of this process involves obtaining a viable estimate of their premorbid cognitive ability or their expected performance prior to any inju... |
Reaching these niches is sometimes a challenging feat as pathogens have to travel long distances across organs, cross several cellular barriers, invade cells and travel inside the cell itself . The talk by robert mnard (pasteur institute, paris) followed one of these journeys . It travels the blood stream and reaches t... |
Intussusception of the appendix is an uncommon type of intussusception with an incidence of 0.01% (1). Although it may clinically mimic more common acute and chronic abdominal conditions, it is an important entity to recognize since it could be discovered as cecal mass and mistaken for a neoplasm . In korea, two cases ... |
An obvious example of a current debate within hoarding research is the question of where hoarding belongs within our diagnostic nosology . The uncertainty regarding the most appropriate classification of compulsive hoarding syndrome has had important consequences for our understanding of hoarding, and in some ways has ... |
In middle - aged populations, differences between males and females are described in terms of various aspects of coronary artery diseases . Males, for example, have a higher rate of previous myocardial infarction (mi).1,2 females, at least in some studies, have been reported to have a longer delay to reach hospital and... |
Until recently, influenza a virus infection in indonesia did not cause much concern for the public due to the mild, self - limiting nature of seasonal influenza . However, since the outbreaks of avian influenza a (h5n1) in poultry in 2003 and the subsequent fatal human infections in 2005, the risk of influenza caused a... |
An estimated 569,490 americans are expected to die of cancer in 2010, accounting for approximately 25% of the overall mortality 1 . Bone metastases are a common manifestation of advanced disease with autopsy studies showing an incidence of 33 - 36% in patients with lung cancer 2, 3, 68% in prostate cancer 3, and 73% in... |
Most cellular functions are carried out by a complex network of genes, proteins, and metabolites that interact through biochemical and physical interactions (gerstein et al, 2002; barabsi and oltvai, 2004; albert, 2005; basso et al, 2005; almaas, 2007; alon, 2007; yildrim et al, 2007). Therefore, disease - causing defe... |
Bilateral sagittal split osteotomy (bsso) is one of the most common orthognathic surgical procedures for the correction of mandibular deformities . The obwegeser - dal pont osteotomy and hunsuck modifications are widely used1 - 3 . When performing bsso, it is crucial to control the lingual split because it may result i... |
Despite the marked advances in the perioperative management of the liver transplant recipient, an assessment of clinically significant graft injury following preservation and reperfusion remains difficult . The lack of a sensitive clinical marker of acute liver injury has a profound impact on clinical practice and the ... |
Heart function fails when the organ is unable to pump blood at a rate proportional to the body s need for oxygen or when this function leads to elevated cardiac chamber filling pressures (cardiogenic pulmonary edema). Despite our sophisticated knowledge of heart failure, even the so - called ejection fraction up 175% o... |
Mutations of the gjb2 gene, encoding gap junction protein connexin 26 (cx26), are the most common cause of hereditary congenital hearing loss in many countries (2). Cx26 is a member of the connexin family of gap junction proteins, which facilitate intercellular communication by encoding channels that directly link the ... |
Linear growth retardation, or stunting, which is a manifestation of chronic malnutrition, is highly prevalent in under - developed and developing countries. [14] according to the world health organization, 215 million children were stunted in 2000 throughout the world . The national data from iranian national study of ... |
Already back in 1850, ignatz semmelweis was able to demonstrate in a spectacular manner that hand hygiene could prevent infections, but since then very few studies have been able to attest to the importance of hand hygiene in everyday practice . It is therefore all the more remarkable that in two studies of simple desi... |
Important factors determining the rate of tooth alignment include the bracket slot dimension, the associated inter bracket span, the choice of arch wire, and frictional forces generated between bracket and arch wire . Friction has been defined as the resistance to motion that occurs when two objects move tangentially t... |
Mucinous carcinoma of the breast is uncommon, the reported incidence of pure mucinous carcinoma being 2% of all breast cancers . Pure mucinous carcinoma has a far better prognosis than the mixed variety noted in several studies . We report a case diagnosed as pure mucinous carcinoma breast on fine needle aspiration cyt... |
For the pharmacometrician and the system pharmacologist, computer software is, quite simply, the equivalent of the laboratory for the molecular biologist, or of the research clinic for the practicing clinician . It is the environment where tools are developed, observations and conjectures are made, hypotheses are formu... |
The institute of medicine (iom) report to err is human revealed the number and significance of adverse events and errors that occur during hospitalization . The report was a call to action to transform healthcare systems to ensure patient safety and higher quality care . In one step toward healthcare transformation, th... |
Therefore, action must be taken immediately to diagnose and treat such intracranial complications before irreversible tissue damage has occurred, and both physicians and patients at putative risk should be aware . Here, a case of sinusitis originating from an odontogenic focus leading to severe subdural empyema with su... |
Establishing good communication, either verbal or nonverbal, with patient is an essential and important component to develop a good doctor - patient relation . Face - to - face interaction (including facial expressions and eye contact), expressive touch, body language, paralinguistics (vocal communication which is disc... |
Ischemic colitis usually develops due to arteriosclerosis, diabetes, hypovolemic shock, portal hypertension, malignant tumors, pancreatitis, or colonic obstruction . It is very common in elderly people.1 phlebosclerotic colitis (pc) is a rare form of ischemic colitis that develops as a result of mesenteric venous calci... |
Soft tissue sarcomas are rare tumors (1% of all adult malignancies) with a dismal prognosis . Approximately 70% of sarcomas occur in the extremities (49% in the lower and 19% in the upper limbs), while the remaining 30% occur in the trunk, abdomen or retroperitoneum (1,2). Among the most common histological types of sa... |
Nevus depigmentosus is a hypomelanotic condition which is usually refractory to medical modalities of treatment.a few cases of surgical repigmentation have been reported.one case report from south korea described the recurrence of hypomelanosis at the surgically treated site after eight years . Nevus depigmentosus is a... |
In bone, endogenous nucleotides, such as atp and utp, are released from many types of cells, including bone cells [1, 2]. Nucleotides are released in response to a number of stimuli including inflammation [3, 4] and mechanical stimulation [57]. They act as autocrine and paracrine signaling molecules by activating purin... |
We ascertained subjects with lada and type 2 diabetes from the lada china multicenter study (46 hospitals throughout china contributed); type 1 diabetes, defined by who criteria (4), from the type 1 diabetes collaboration net (18 hospitals in hunan province); and normal subjects were screened by 75-g oral glucose toler... |
Azathioprine is a prodrug of the purine mimic antimetabolite, 6-mercaptopurine, widely used in various autoimmune diseases and organ transplantation . Little is known about the pathogenesis and epidemiology of azathioprine - induced cholestatic hepatitis, a rare but dramatic iatrogenic complication . A 73-year - old ma... |
Nocturia is defined as waking one or more times to void during the period between going to bed with the intention of sleeping and waking with the intention of arising (1, 2). Recent multinational population - based, cross - sectional survey (epic) of adults aged 18 yr using 2002 international continence society (ics) d... |
A 38-year - old female from puerto rico with complaints of hypoxia was transferred to our facility . She had been diagnosed 5 years earlier with hermansky - pudlak syndrome (hps) subtype 1, complicated by pulmonary fibrosis . She had experienced a slow deterioration in pulmonary function, manifesting as worsening dyspn... |
The incidence rates of oral cancer are 3.7% for men and 2.6% for women in the sudan . Several lifestyle risk factors for the development of oral cancer are familiar, including tobacco products, alcohol, infections, dietary factors, chemical irritants and frank carcinogens . Prevalence of oral cancer is 3.2% in sudan an... |
Understanding how the vertebrate nervous system develops from the embryonic ectoderm has been one of the most intensely investigated developmental processes . The process of neural induction was discovered by hans spemann and hilde mangold; when dorsal mesoderm was transplanted adjacent to ventral ectoderm that normall... |
A total of 20 sedentary heart transplant recipients (18 men, 4911 years), 11 sedentary heart failure patients (8 men, 4310 years), and 7 sedentary healthy subjects (5 men 398 years) were included in this study . Heart transplant recipients and heart failure patients with atrial fibrillation, a pacemaker, and noncardiov... |
We do not understand yet why some patients develop multiple myeloma and others a single plasmacytoma 1, 2, but that might be related to differences in the chemokine receptor expression profiles of the malignant plasma cells or cellular adhesion molecules 3 . Solitary extramedullary plasmacytomas (sep) are extremely rar... |
Upper gastrointestinal bleeding ia a major emergency and represents a major public health problem, its prevalence being 100170:100000 people . Bleeding from esophageal varices is only 511% of all gastrointestinal bleeding and in the u.s . Approximately 30% of patients with compensated cirrhosis have esophageal varices ... |
When ischemic stroke occurs, motor function is one of the most important brain functions to be protected together with language, sensory, visual, and hearing function . Since the most motor cortex and motor neuron pathway are located in the middle cerebral artery territory, infarction of this territory causes contralat... |
Stroke refers to cerebrovascular bleeding and a neural disease caused by nontraumatic reasons and is accompanied by brain damage or functional loss of lower body muscles on the paretic side1, 2 . Despite the development of modern medicine, economic growth, and widening interests in health, its occurrence is increasing ... |
Many women use natural health products for relief of menopausal symptoms and perceive these products as safe.phytotherapeutic products for menopausal complaints can contain plants with phytoestrogenic properties.the use of phytoestrogens can be related to endometrial hyperplasia and subsequent vaginal hemorrhage . Seve... |
Inflammatory bowel disease (ibd), cd, and uc are chronic relapsing inflammatory disorders of the intestine with unknown causes . Ibd develops upon the interaction between genetic predisposition leading to immunological abnormalities, environment, and microbiome . None of these factors alone are sufficient to induce dis... |
Breast cancer (bc) continues to remain the commonest cause of cancer death in women worldwide . Bc is increasing in regions that until recently had low rates of the disease . In asia, bc incidence peaks among women in their forties, whereas in the united states and europe, it peaks among women in their 60's . Similarly... |
The arterial stiffness is an index of vascular health and has been shown to confer additional independent predictive value for adverse cardiovascular outcomes in patients with uncomplicated essential hypertension as well as in the general population [2, 3]. The measurement of carotid to femoral pulse wave velocity (pwv... |
The human thumb is opposable and prehensile, making it the most unique digit of the hand, responsible for hand functions, grasp, manual dexterity, and fine motor skills . The thenar eminence constitutes the intrinsic muscles of the hand that are responsible for complex movements of the thumb . Congenital anomaly of the... |
Nearly 200 cases of calcifying epithelial odontogenic tumor have been reported in literature since pindborg described it as a separate pathologic entity in 1955 . It has been identified under different denominations, such as, ameloblastoma of unusual type with calcification, calcifying ameloblastoma, malignant odontoma... |
24-hour abpm plays an important role in determining cardiovascular prognosis and has been shown to be a better predictor of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality as compared to office blood pressure measurements [13]. The objective was to study the relationship between 24 h abpm and cardiovascular outcomes in patients... |
Acute renal failure (arf) is associated with adverse outcomes, especially in children admitted to the pediatric intensive care unit (picu). Due to usage of multiple definitions of arf in the literature, causing large variations in the reported incidence and outcome, the term arf was replaced by acute kidney injury (aki... |
Chronic heart failure (chf) is the common end - result of many cardiovascular diseases . Despite the improvements in the methods of prevention and the new strategies in the treatment of patients, the incidence of chf is increasing in many countries.1, 2 in recent years, the focus of research for the treatment of chf pa... |
It is a significant challenge even to the most experienced anaesthesiologist to intubate patients in whom the movement of the cervical spine is not desirable or restricted . In cases of cervical spine immobility or instability, the use of direct laryngoscopy is reserved: it requires flexion of the cervical spine and at... |
We obtained data on persons with hiv / aids and tb from the national databank at the centers for disease control (cdc taiwan) of the department of health, taiwan . Coinfection with hiv and tb was defined as hiv infection in persons in whom tb was later diagnosed . A total of 660 persons with both hiv and tb were report... |
Small organic molecules with specific interactions with dna have become antitumor, antiviral, and antibiotic drugs [1, 2]. Duplex dna - binding drugs interact in two main ways, through groove binding and through intercalation . Medicinal chemistry has made a considerable effort in searching for and testing of a large n... |
Pseudohypoparathyroidism (php) was first reported in 1942 by albright who presented 3 cases of hypocalcemia with no response to parathyroid extract and albright hereditary osteodystrophy (aho) phenotype of short stature with round facies, obesity, brachydactyly, mental retardation, and subcutaneous calcification . Subs... |
A retrocaval ureter or pre - ureteric venacava is a rare anomaly which occurs in 1 per 1000 live births . It is seen three times more often in males and is usually on the right side . A left retrocaval ureter as such is very rare and is usually associated with situs inversus or ivc duplication . These patients usually ... |
Acute flaccid paralysis (afp) is a clinical entity characterized by areflexia and/or hyporeflexia and weakness which reaches a maximum within days or weeks . Polioviruses, enterovirus 71, flavivirus, herpes virus, and rabies virus are well - known as viral etiologic agents . In this article, who presented with lower re... |
Vitamin d status is highly variable among european countries, largely due to variations in exposure to sunshine, dietary intake of vitamin d, and the use of supplements [1, 2]. Vitamin d can be synthesized endogenously, and factors affecting its cutaneous synthesis include age, season, latitude, time of day, skin pigme... |
The functional asymmetry of the cerebral hemispheres has been reported in patients with many sorts of brain damage, who failed to orient, report, or respond to stimuli located in one hemispace 1 . Line bisection has been employed as a sensitive test for unilateral neglect 1,3 . In this task, lateral deviation from the ... |
Uterine leiomyomata, the most common solid pelvic tumors, occur in approximately 20% of women aged 35 years or more . Because of the significant operative risk associated with abdominal myomectomy, the operation has been reserved for women who want to preserve or enhance their fertility potential . However, with the ge... |
One of the most frequently asked questions to those of us at june is what kinds of manuscripts are appropriate for inclusion in the journal . Any manuscript with the aim of enabling others to enhance their teaching of neuroscience to undergraduates is appropriate; those with empirically - tested protocols of innovative... |
The disease known as pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (pcp) is one of the leading causes of illness and death in persons with impaired immunity . The disease has been described in immunocompromised patients for many years, including outbreaks in malnourished young children in orphanages in iran in the 1950s (16). The aid... |
Pruritus is an unpleasant feeling that can cause the desire of scratching in a person and can be the symptoms of systemic, infectious, and neurological diseases . Causes and treatments of pruritus have been described by traditional persian medicine scientists . The aim of this study was to derive general principles of ... |
In june 2006, a 74-year - old woman residing in a house in rural new orleans was bothered by a considerable number (> 50) of insect bites . The woman observed many bugs in the house and showed them to a fumigator, who identified them as triatomines . An internet search showed the potential for transmission of chagas di... |
A 2.5 kb vec promoter sequence was cloned between insulators from the chicken -globin gene 29 and used to drive cre expression . R26r - lacz/+;vec - cre or r26r - yfp/+;vec - cre conceptuses were generated by crossing vec - cre/+ males with r26r - lacz/+ or r26r - yfp/+ females . Runx1;vec - cre and runx1;vec - cre con... |
The main study sample included 190 women aged 33 to 68 years recruited through the elective surgery schedule of the gynecology unit at the laval university medical research center, qubec, canada . Surgeries were scheduled for total (n = 184) or subtotal (n = 6) abdominal hysterectomies sometimes accompanied by a salpin... |
A 20-year - old incarcerated indigenous australian male, with a history of hepatitis c and intravenous drug abuse, was admitted to the intensive care unit with fulminant hepatic failure following a 5-day history of jaundice, nausea, and vomiting . The patient was opioid dependent but had been previously well with no re... |
Gemcitabine - induced hemolytic uremic syndrome (hus) is rare but can often be fatal . Early detection of hus is critical so that contributing chemotherapeutic agents, such as gemcitabine, can be discontinued . In clinical trials, hus is characterized by renal failure, microangiopathic hemolytic anemia (maha), and thro... |
Health related quality of life (hrqol) includes not only physical functioning but also emotional and social functioning dimensions . To assess effectiveness of clinical trials, hrqol measuring instruments hrqol instruments assist healthcare services in creating better relationship between patients and their physicians ... |
The use of female human resources is highlighted as an important factor in the aging korean society, especially as married women have started entering the labour market . In addition, a wide range of fields utilize female labour and the distribution ratio of women in each field is increasing, with female participation ... |
Chitin is plentiful in the structural coatings of fungi, insects, and parasitic nematodes, but it is not produced in mammals . Chitin, the linear polymer of -1,4 linked -n - acetyl - glucosamine (glcnac), is the most abundant biopolymer in marine ecosystems and, after cellulose, the second most copious polysaccharide i... |
Small cell lung cancer (sclc) is highly malignant neoplasm, derived from neuroendocrine cells . It represents approximately 15% of all bronchial carcinomas, and this percentage is tending to decrease recently . In most cases, sclc arises in the larger airways and grows rapidly, becoming quite large . It also has propen... |
Almost all countries, irrespective of economic status, are currently experiencing an obesity epidemic.13 residence area, occupation, and lifestyle significantly modify the body fat composition, and thus affect the prevalence of obesity.4,5 as a country undergoing economic transition, the people s republic of china has ... |
Isolated pauci - immune pulmonary capillaritis (ipipc) is a rare disorder of unknown etiology . It is characterized by small vessel vasculitis confined to lungs, and systemic manifestations are typically absent . It is considered as a subset of microscopic polyangiitis (mpa) but is mostly sero - negative for anti - neu... |
When oxygen supply to the fetus is significantly disrupted, tissue oxygenation deprivation develops, acids begin to accumulate and acidemia develops . Umbilical cord blood gas measurement in comparison with the fetal scalp ph monitoring could better detect a hypoxic baby . In 1952, virginia apgar, proposed a scoring sy... |
Vaccination has been one of the most effective measures to control infectious diseases in the 20th century . Most of the viral (mumps, rubella, measles, varicella and rotavirus) and bacterial (tetanus, diphteria, haemophilus influenzae, streptococcus pneumoniae, meningococcus group c) diseases traditionally affecting c... |
Suicide is an important health challengeand one of the main leading causes of premature death worldwide (1, 2). Suicide rate is among the top three causes of death in people aged 1544 yr old (3). The rate of suicide ideation is reported to be highest among elderly (1). Completed suicide is 5% to 10% of suicide attempts... |
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (als) is a common progressive, neurodegenerative disorder of the voluntary motor system that affects motor neurons in the cerebral cortex, brain stem, and spinal cord . The latter rapidly leads to pulmonary compromise requiring mechanical ventilation and represents the major cause of morta... |
Technological advances in industrial societies have led to sedentary lifestyles at home and at work . Inactivity and the excess intake of calorie - rich foods are the main culprits in the twin epidemics of obesity and type 2 diabetes - associated cardiovascular disease, disproportionately affecting women, especially th... |
Target of rapamycin (mtor) is an evolutionarily conserved serine / threonine kinase that regulates cell growth and division in response to energy levels, growth signals, and nutrients . Control of mtor activity is critical for the cell since its dysregulation leads to cancer, metabolic disease, and diabetes . In cells,... |
There are several medical and surgical [2, 3] treatment options for obstructive sleep apnea (osa). Patients who use continuous positive airway pressure (cpap) devices have been shown to have nasal obstruction as a common complaint (estimated prevalence: 2545%) [46]. As described by poiseuille's law, airflow resistance ... |
In november 2009, a bat was found on the ground in bokeloh, lower saxony, germany (522513.99n; 92331.56e). It was given mealworms and water ad libitum supplemented with minerals and vitamins . In february 2010, the bat began to act aggressively, directly approaching any moving object, vigorously trying to bite, and scr... |
However, its administration is associated with problems, such as the adjustments needed to maintain an effective blood concentration . In addition, dietary restrictions are necessary, because vitamin k levels influence warfarin s efficacy . In recent years, novel oral anticoagulants (noacs) those have demonstrated enco... |
Many people are not aware of the harmful effects of radiofrequency waves (rf) and their role in cancer and other serious risks . Scientific evidence suggests that cancer is not only linked to mobile phone radiation and that other factors also may be involved in its development . Most mobile operators use from radiofreq... |
The transforming growth factor - beta (tgf) was discovered more than two decades ago and was isolated as a secreted factor from sarcoma virus - infected cells [13]. Tgf was shown to transiently confer on normal fibroblasts phenotypic properties of transformed cells, as demonstrated by their acquired ability to grow in ... |
Intersphincteric resection (isr) is a procedure that aims to preserve anal function in patients with very low rectal cancer . Since the introduction of laparoscopic rectal surgery for rectal cancer first described laparoscopic isr (lap isr) in 2000, and a number of cases have since been reported . We present our clinic... |
It is well known that the main phenomenon of hypoxemia in acute lung injury / acute respiratory distress syndrome (ali / ards) is the high shunt fraction caused by the nonaerated areas of the lungs . During the disease process, the volume of extravascular lung water and the lung weight increase and promote the collapse... |
Fast quantum - chemical methods are indispensable for computationally demanding calculations of electronic properties of large molecules . In the 1970s and 1980s, semiempirical quantum - chemical (sqc) methods were the workhorse in computational studies of ground - state properties . Since the 1990s, they have largely ... |
Electroconvulsive therapy (ect) is one of the most efficacious treatment of major depressive disorder (mdd). It is used as a rapid and efficacious treatment in emergent and/or treatment resistant forms of other psychiatric disorders . The cognitive aspects which are influenced immediately after ect are: orientation, in... |
The off - season period (i.e. Transition period) has taken a relevant role across the soccer s world . Considering the growing economic importance of soccer competitions and the increase of the number of matches around the world (regardless of the competitive - level), soccer referees have been involved in officiating ... |
Prevalence and risk of overweight were assessed in 232 children who were enrolled in the prospective german gdm offspring study between 1989 and 2000 . All children were from singleton births, had a mother with gdm diagnosed according to criteria of the german diabetes association using an oral glucose tolerance test (... |
Talc pleurodesis (tp) is a procedure first described by bethune 1 in 1935 as a means to anchor the lung during lobectomy 2 . Ever since then, tp has been employed worldwide in the management of recurrent pneumothorax and malignant pleural effusion, with a success rate in excess of 90% 3 - 5 . Tp is performed by instill... |
The united states department of defense and department of veteran affairs are dedicated to providing superior rehabilitation care for veterans and service members who have suffered combat - associated traumatic limb loss . Current literature reports that 70% of amputees with multiple limb loss are bothered by sweating ... |
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