a focus on stress involvement in children with vitiligo

... participation rate of 44% In this second stage, the parents were interviewed with the Development and Well-Being Assessment (DAWBA) [23] In the third stage, an extensive clinical examination of a case-control ... case-control sample was performed (N = 329) The sample included 97 children who obtained a psychiatric diagnosis according to the DAWBA, 207 children without any DAWBA diagnosis, and 25 children invited ... This finding is in accordance with the results of Goodman and collaborators, showing that healthy children with low IQ within the normal range (defined as WISC-R FSIQ in the range 70-89) had more...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 18:21

... measurements PKJ was involved in biopsy preparation and 19 20 Barbato A, Turato G, Baraldo S, Bazzan E, Calabrese F, Tura M, Zuin R, Beghe B, Maestrelli P, Fabbri LM, Saetta M: Airway inflammation in childhood ... after inhaled bronchodilator (short acting β2 agonist) Informed parental consent was obtained prior to performance of EB and HRCT in all cases Ethical approval was obtained to study all biopsies and ... Siemens) and all images were analysed electronically A magnification factor of was applied in all images that were displayed in HRCT window settings All clearly visible segmental and sub-segmental airway/vessel...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 16:20

... Agrawal A, et al.: Information and communication technology in cardiovascular disease prevention in developing countries: hype and hope Report of the International Collaboration on Information ... report that a training programme has been jointly developed with staff, and has resulted in a marked reduction in case fatality A study in rural Burkina Faso [30] investigated the quality of drug ... showed a gap in knowledge and training on when and how to initiate insulin therapy for poorly controlled type diabetes Participating doctors stated that most of their undergraduate training had focused...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20

... causing bias Although parents were instructed to assess both periods on and off dexamethasone independently, the response may have been flawed by sending the questionnaires in one single mailing ... two additional intensification treatment blocks after induction Maintenance treatment consisted of five weeks of mercaptopurine and methotrexate alternated with two weeks of mg/m2/day of dexamethasone ... period on dexamethasone and the most recent period off dexamethasone Since at the start of this study recruitment for ALL-9 had ceased and a new treatment protocol had already started, inclusion was...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... what can be done to deal with the situation (secondary appraisal) An event is appraised as stressful when primary appraisals exceed secondary appraisals, and by using coping processes a person ... 9:625-636 Garcia-Marcos L, Carvajal Uruena I, Escribano Montaner A, fernadez Benitez M, de la Garcia Rubia S, Tauler Toro E, Perez Fernandez V, Barcina Sancez C: Seasons and other factors affecting ... situation Emotion-focused coping are associated with lower levels of distress in situations that are not controllable [29] Since asthma is controllable with effective management [30] emotion focussed...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20

... disadvantage: a chronic disease, on top of an unfavourable background Declaration of competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests Hijmans et al Health and Quality ... Intermediate: general secondary educationsenior level, and vocational education-junior level; Higher: vocational education-senior level and university education c Data obtained from the Central Dutch ... proportion of healthy siblings with impaired HRQoL was also significantly larger than the proportion in the Dutch norm population on Moods & Emotions, Autonomy, Parent Relation, and Financial Resources...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... causing bias Although parents were instructed to assess both periods on and off dexamethasone independently, the response may have been flawed by sending the questionnaires in one single mailing ... two additional intensification treatment blocks after induction Maintenance treatment consisted of five weeks of mercaptopurine and methotrexate alternated with two weeks of mg/m2/day of dexamethasone ... period on dexamethasone and the most recent period off dexamethasone Since at the start of this study recruitment for ALL-9 had ceased and a new treatment protocol had already started, inclusion was...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 16:20

... http://www.jhoonline.org/content/2/1/46 Dasatinib Dasatinib is a thiazole carboximide with potent activity against BCR-ABL and also SFKs [15] This agent has 325fold greater activity against unmutated BCR-ABL in vitro than imatinib, ... effects associated with imatinib intolerance is minimal, indicating that there is a lack of cross-intolerance in patients presenting with imatinib intolerance After months of follow-up in the pivotal ... associated with dasatinib therapy are predominantly mild or moderate (grade or by the National Cancer Institute Cancer Therapy Evaluation Program criteria), and are self-limiting or resolve following...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 22:20

... Medicine, Taoyuan, Taiwan 4Department of Psychiatry, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital at Linko, Taoyuan, Taiwan 5Division of Mental Health & Drug Abuse Research, National Health Research Institutes, Miaoli, ... hyperactive and non-hyperactive patients [16] Gorman et al demonstrated that MPH ameliorated task-incompatible behavior and attention comparably in both ADHD subtypes, but hyperactivity and aggression ... Swanson, Nolan, and Pelham, and Version IV Scale; ADHD-RS = ADHD Rating Scale; CPT = The Computerized Continuous Performance Test; RT = reaction time; SE = Standard Error in discontinuation rates...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 15:22

... diagnostic group For more detailed insight into the data, the mean age (standard deviation) and clinical diagnoses of nonsurgical patients according to the group analyzed are summarized in Tables ... model B indicates that CRP levels are higher in surgical (or traumatic) patients than in patients with an internal diagnosis Owing to an insignificant interaction of diagnosis with the septic category ... severity compared with consideration of its values separately at single time points In conclusion, multilevel modeling is a novel technique for analyzing longitudinal data that can be applied successfully...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 03:21

... that of Japan and Sweden, while under-five mortality rate of Germany is 4, Australia 5, U.K 6, Canada and U.S What makes Singapore’s achievement laudable is that it has done so at a fraction of ... poses in a tax-financed system A major concern in a pay-as-you go social security system for an ageing society is that the increasing tax burden on a proportionately smaller number of working people ... are made in absence of any data which cast doubt on their reliability In fact, the lack of primary data has been an issue in Singapore case The paper by Chia and Tsui (2005) deserves a special...

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 15:53

... predisposed individuals A defect in mucosal barrier function could allow luminal bacterial antigens to initiate a chronic relapsing inflammation Several studies have shown an increased intestinal permeability ... PCDAI is a multi-item index including subjective reporting of abdominal pain, general well-being, and diarrhea and physical findings, including linear growth and laboratory parameters (hematocrit, ... Prednisone, azathioprine Asacol, prednisone, azathioprine Azulfidine, metronidazole, prednisone, 6-mercaptopurine Pentasa, metronidazole, prednisone, azathioprine CD, Crohn’s disease; LGG, Lactobacillus...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 12:20

... 401-405 Koushki P A, Al-Fadhala S, Al-Saleh O, and Aljassar A H 2002 Urban air pollution impact of modal shift in school transportation in Kuwait Journal of Urban Planning and Development 128(2): ... neglected area of study In Toronto, Canada, it was observed that within a span of a decade air pollution declined as a public concern as other socioeconomic problems emerged (Dworkin and Pijawka 1982) ... Saksena Sumeet Saksena is a Fellow in the Research Program at the East-West Center He is also Affiliate Faculty at the Department of Urban And Regional Planning, University of Hawai`i at Manoa...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 16:20

... • Abdominal pain can be caused by intestinal infections, urinary tract infection, pancreatitis, hepatitis and colitis Diarrhoea and vomiting are commonly associated with abdominal pain Cramping ... Causes and types of pain in children with HIV/AIDS Common types of pain experienced by infants with HIV include headache, oral cavity pain, abdominal pain, neuromuscular pain, chest pain, earache, ... Clinical examination: pain history and physical examination 27 Expression of pain by children and appropriate pain assessment measures 29 Documentation of pain: the use of pain measurement...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 04:20

... some baseline information Rural Haryana was divided into two major areas, irrigated and rainfed Farms in the Irrigated Area About 90 percent of the dairy farms in the irrigated zones have one or ... 0,0 IN2 IN4 IN2 2 Farm Types IN3 7 IN2 IN4 IN2 2 IN3 7 Farm Types 24 Analysis of the Dairy Sector in Haryana 3.7 Margins in the Dairy Chain: Farmer to Consumer In this section, the margins in the dairy ... Risk The main risks identified by the farmers are not having an animal (buffalo) in lactation in any one year, the death of a lactating buffalo, having to pay for straw (which is the main feed...

Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 04:20

... assimilation, fronting, backing, stopping, voicing, de-voicing, affrication, de-affrication, nasalization, de-nasalization, and lateralization [26] Five children had specific speech production errors: ... stopping and voicing (2 cases), backing (one case), fronting and de-affrication (one case), and other error (one case) Experimental setup of Kinematic analysis During the Kinematic analysis task, ... of variation (CV) for kinematic data (utterance duration, peak opening displacement, and peak opening velocity) obtained by dividing the standard deviation of kinematic data by the mean kinematic...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... vibration signal as an aspiration when a swallow has actually occurred, whereas a false negative (FN) is the event of classifying a vibration signal as a swallow when an aspiration has actually occurred ... performance Initially, all networks started with two basis units and this was increased by five at each training iteration to a maximum equal to the number of training exemplars The termination criterion ... Sample swallow signals on the left and aspiration signals on the right Sample swallow signals on the left and aspiration signals on the right Note that swallows are typically longer in duration...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 10:20

... that they might serve a similar function within the brain Tachykinins may have a role in augmenting the immune functions of CNS glial cells resulting in the progression of damaging inflammation ... 168-177 43- Al-Ayadhi LY, Mostafa GA.Low plasma progranulin levels in children with autism J Neuroinflammation 2011 Sep 5; 8(1):111 [Epub ahead of print] 44- Al-Ayadhi LY, Mostafa GA Increased serum ... disorder J Neuroinflammation 2010;7:48 34- Mostafa GA, Reda SM, Abd El-Aziz MM, Ahmed SA Sputum neurokinin A in Egyptian asthmatic children and adolescents: relation to exacerbation severity Allergy...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 22:20

... participated in the acquisition and interpretation of data HEG and FHS participated in the design of the study, the acquisition and interpretation of data All authors read and approved the final manuscript ... reduction of treatment intensity However, ongoing medical complications and an impaired functional status still affected emotional domains of HRQOL in a negative way after one year Thus, increased ... (96%) had been treated with chemotherapy, 16 (31%) had had surgical interventions, and 18 (35%) had received a radiation therapy Two children had been treated with a bone-marrow transplantation One...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... organizations to list under this heading, including: • National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the European Space Agency ... Health Organization (WHO), the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), and UN-Habitat Additional information on WSIS Action Line C7 on e-Environment can be found at http://www.itu.int/wsis/c7/e-environment/ ... transboundary air pollutants, wild fires, deforestation, changes in water levels, and natural hazards With rapid advances in data collection, analysis, visualization and dissemination, including in...

Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 12:20