... Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) [21,22] and a question about chronic illness or disability, was sent to all parents and teachers Parents of 74% of the children gave their Page of consent ... level of functioning Scores above 70 indicate normal function The CGAS is considered a valid and reliable tool for rating a child’s general level of functioning on a health-illness continuum, and ... according to parents or teachers on the SDQ impact section, or (3) the score on one of the other scales included in the questionnaire exceeded the 98th percentile cutoff The families of children...
... chromatography was performed on heart tissues to detect levels of the thiol pairs GSH and GSSG, and Cys and Cyss HIV-1-related protein expression had no effecton GSH or GSSG levels (A and B), ... contributions JSO: conception and design, data collection and analysis in cardiac and skeletal muscle tissues, figure and manuscript preparation YIA: real time PCR analyses, contribution of important ... denaturation, annealing, and extension at 95°C, 60°C, and 72°C, respectively As a control, RT-PCR was also performed on μl of each RNA sample to confirm absence of contaminating genomic DNA Fluorescence...
... Graduate School of Khon Kaen University, Thailand REFERENCES Alexander M (1961) Introduction to soil microbiology Toppan Company, Tokyo AOAC (Official Methods of Analysis of AOAC International) (2000) ... could be due to the production of ammonium as a result of the ammonification process (Huang et al., 2004) The pH patterns were concomitant to the previous studies on the composting of other organic ... first 28 days of composting and from 33 - 45% initial carbon content, it dropped to nearly 25% at the end of the composting period (Figure 4) Decrease in total organic carbon concentration resulted...
... sentence-combining and punctuation, one on syntax, punctuation and sentence-diagramming, and one on punctuation alone The effectof grammar teaching (syntax) in English onto 16 year olds’ accuracy and quality ... teaching of ‘syntax’ Of these 16, 12 provided a conclusion about the effectof syntax teaching on the accuracy and quality of pupils’ writing None of these 12 reviews of the teaching of syntax concluded ... dimensions: communication and comprehension, acquisition and development, and historical and geographical variation (ibid, pp 17ff) The latest version of the National Curriculum for England suggests...
... intellectual content, and have given final approval of the version to be published KM and WC have made substantial contributions to conception and design, analysis and interpretation of data, have ... loosening and possible therapeutic options List of Abbreviations used CGRP: calcitonin gene-related peptide CGRP; OPG: osteoprotegerin; RANK: receptor activator of nuclear factor-B; RANKL: receptor ... Germany Authors’ contributions XJ and HJ have made substantial contributions to acquisition of data and analysis and interpretation of data, have been involved in drafting the manuscript and revising...
... intellectual content, and have given final approval of the version to be published KM and WC have made substantial contributions to conception and design, analysis and interpretation of data, have ... loosening and possible therapeutic options List of Abbreviations used CGRP: calcitonin gene-related peptide CGRP; OPG: osteoprotegerin; RANK: receptor activator of nuclear factor-B; RANKL: receptor ... Germany Authors’ contributions XJ and HJ have made substantial contributions to acquisition of data and analysis and interpretation of data, have been involved in drafting the manuscript and revising...
... surgery was contraindicated Investigation Given the lack of response, risk of amputation, and general deterioration in this patient’s condition, bosentan was initiated on a compassionate use basis, ... outcome Page of 4 Conclusions While the observations reported here should be interpreted with caution and need to be confirmed in a controlled study, the sequence of events is suggestive of a beneficial ... findings are consistent with current knowledge on the role of endothelin in vascular complications of diabetes and support continued investigation of endothelin in the pathophysiology of untreatable...
... supplementation and control group), comparisons were performed as appropriate Correlation analyses were applied in order to investigate the effectof the amino acid supplementation on the variables of ... and the time of supplementation was between 12 and 13 hours This time period might be too short to show an effectof the amino acid supplementation on performance An amino acid supplementation ... delayed onset of muscle soreness and muscle fatigue for several days after exercise [18] The duration of supplementation might also have been too short to show an effecton creatine kinase Consuming...
... plant being operational and closed, in terms of both total metal content and concentrations of individual metals The total metal content of PM10collected before the closure and during the closure ... inflammation This study analysed the metal content of Redcar PM10 and related composition to toxicological effects observed The effects of elemental carbon, organic compounds and biological components ... archive/data _and_ statistics.php] Donaldson K, MacNee W: Potential mechanisms of adverse pulmonary and cardiovascular effects of particulate air pollution PM10 Int J Hyg Environ Health 2001, 203:411-5 Donaldson K, Stone V,...
... progesterone concentrations, endometrial histology and ERa and PR expression on the expected day of entry of the embryo into the uterus (day 6) and the onset of luteolysis (day 15) To synchronize ... progesterone concentrations and the expression of sex steroid endometrial receptors The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectof an intrauterine treatment with 1% povidone-iodine on plasma ... of the infused group Page of Figure Immunohistochemical localisation of progesterone receptor in representative endometrial cross sections of mares on day and 15 in the control group (a; c) and...
... propofol on (c) propofol off (d) 30 propofol on propofol off 35 30 SEF95 Cz (Hz) 35 SEF95 Fz (Hz) * 20 25 20 15 10 25 20 15 10 propofol on propofol off propofol on propofol off pofol infusion ... characteristics and duration or rate of propofol infusion did not differ among sedation level groups Effectof propofol infusion duration None of the ERP and EEG parameters correlated with the total duration ... N100 standard amplitude Fz (µV) Figure -1 -2 -3 -4 -5 -6 propofol on propofol off propofol on (d) propofol off 2 MMN Cz (µV) MMN Fz (µV) 1 -1 -2 -1 -2 -3 -3 propofol on propofol off (a, c) frontal...
... conception and revision of manuscript CB and LKB were responsible for data acquisition and analysis and contributed to revision of manuscript MH was the main contributor to study conception and participated ... Authors' contributions AD was the main contributor to study design, acquisition, analysis and interpretation of the data and drafting the manuscript MJC and RF contributed to study conception and revision ... glucose concentrations both in healthy patients and those with type diabetes [7] This occurs as a result of stimulation of insulin secretion, suppression of glucagon release and slowing of gastric...
... performance of upper-level residents and other medical staff across a variety of disciplines We likewise agree that optimizing patient handoffs, medical education, and trainees’ sense of professionalism ... interventions are developed that reduce consecutive work hours to ensure the safety of patient care We believe, however, that development of ‘a sense of professionalism’ is not a function of whether ... essential to determine how best to protect patients and, ultimately, the integrity of our profession With respect to medical education, it is important to recognize that sleep deprivation has been...
... analysis of unfolding and autoproteolysis of G8C ⁄ N60C and pWT In contrast to previous studies on the kinetics of thermoinactivation [13,24], this approach allows quantification of the contribution of ... contribution of the incorporation of calcium ions into pWT to the Gibbs free energy of activation of unfolding under native conditions When 100 mm EDTA was added to pWT for complete removal of all ... mimics calcium effect the engineered disulfide bond to conformational and autoproteolytical stabilization Particular attention is paid to the role of calcium ions For this reason, an enzyme variant...
... ProNtPCI by means of one-step PCR and cloned into pBAT4 vector without the leader sequence OmpA All constructs cloned into pINIII vector were transformed into Escherichia coli strain MC1061 and ... increasing concentrations of PCI or ProNtPCI were added and the measures were continued for The slope of the first part of the assay corresponded to mo and the slope of the second part to mi The residual ... XbaI and EcoRI and ligated into pIN-IIIOmpA3 vector Similarly, this construction was used as a template to generate the D3, Y37G and G35P/P36G ProNtPCI mutant genes, by means of one-step PCR Constructs...
... victimization, exposure to violence, and fear of crime She is coauthor of Online Sexual Solicitation of Youth: Risk Factors and Impact (2001), Online Victimization: A Report on the Nation’s Youth ... exaggerated the level of supervision and monitoring they engage in, to appear to be responsible parents Nonetheless, it is probably important to ascertain whether parental supervision is of more than ... physical and sexual assault items on a victimization scale, and from a depression scale (five or more depression symptoms in the past month) Those with a composite value one standard deviation above...
... Conclusion Other areas (Attentional cue) Progression of Parkinson’s Disease Figure stimuli Schematization of responsiveness of PD subjects to visual Schematization of responsiveness of PD subjects to ... response to attentional cue andto optic flow Activation level (Response to visual stimuli) At the present stage, the above model is to be considered only a description of behavioural trend concerning ... conditions with continuous optic flow (BOF, FOF) and the condition implying the attentional strategy (AS) are shown for controls and PD subjects in Fig Table reports mean and standard deviation of numerical...
... reference to calibration beads conjugated with a known ratio of PE per bead (QuantiBRITE PE conjugated beads, Becton Dickinson) Levels of CD46 obtained on T and B-lymphocytes of CB, PB and LP are shown ... HHV-6 receptors and thereby fulfil the basic requirement for susceptibility to HHV-6 infection The CD46 expression level on progenitor cells decreases to approximately one third on CD34+ and CD38+ ... for HHV-6 infection However, the level of expression appears not to be the only criterion for susceptibility to HHV-6 Authors' contributions ST contributed to the sample collection, performed FACS...
... more detailed description of the project is available elsewhere [8] Page of Institute for Public Health and the Environment [13,14] The source population of the intervention region consisted of ... walking and bicycling clubs, walking and cycling campaigns, and a stop-smoking campaign, in addition to commercials on local television and radio, newspaper articles, and pamphlet distribution A ... population of both intervention and reference area originated from two former monitoring studies conducted by the Dutch National Data Collection The measurements performed in the intervention and...
... developed to confine excitons inside each EML andto manage triplet excitons by controlling the charge injection A stacked recombination zone structure, which can prevent triplet quenching processes and ... states to the others and enable consumption of all the electrically generated triplet excitons contributing to the emission Figure shows luminance versus voltage characteristics, and the inset of ... efficiency values of 19.95 cd/A and 10.05%, respectively We attribute this improvement to the efficient triplet exciton confinement effectand the suppression of triplet-triplet annihilation which occurs...