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Types of studies used in the dental field are not yet investigated. Thus, little is known about the common study design types in dental literature. This can affect the decision made regarding technique, risk factors, prevention, or treatment.287(g) and the Politics of Interior Immigration Control in the United States: ... |
This paper aims to improve our understanding of emerging patterns of interior immigration control in the United States by examining local law enforcement cooperation with federal immigration authorities under the 287(g) Program. While several recent studies have drawn attention to the shifting terrain of immigration en... |
Cytoplasmic acidification in suspension-cultured plant cells has been characterized as a common intracellular response of some kinds of plant cells to elicitors. Expression of various defense genes in these cells has been increased by the cytoplasmic acidification itself without treatment by elicitors. It is not eviden... |
Klotho is an anti-aging hormone and is able to suppress the action of IGFs. High IGF activities are associated with cancer risk and tumor progression. Klotho's role in cancer is unknown. To evaluate Klotho expression in ovarian cancer and its association with IGFs and ovarian cancer progression, a clinical follow-up st... |
In hybrid zones occurring in marginal environments, adaptive introgression from one species into the genomic background of another may constitute a mechanism facilitating adaptation at range limits. Although recent studies have improved our understanding of adaptive introgression in widely distributed tree species, lit... |
This paper aims to explain changes in real house prices in Australia from 1970 to 2003. We develop and estimate a long-run equilibrium model that shows the real long-run economic determinants of house prices and a short-run asymmetric error correction model to represent house price changes in the short run. We find tha... |
Phoneme spotting in continuous speech has various applications — in speech recognition, smart audio filtering, multimedia synchronization and other fields. Many studies on phoneme spotting have been conducted, using different approaches. We present two algorithms for spotting fricatives (such as /s/, /sh/, /f/) and aff... |
Background Adherence to childhood immunization schedules is a function of various factors. Given the increased use of technology as a strategy to increase immunization coverage, it is important to investigate how parents perceive different forms of communication, including traditional means and text-message reminders. ... |
Plant roots are associated with a diverse microbial community that consists of antagonistic, commensal and mutualistic organisms. While beneficial plant-microbe interactions are important for plant performance, direct evidence for the evolution of rhizosphere mutualism remains elusive. Here we experimentally show that ... |
Auger electron spectroscopy (AES) is used to study the processes taking place during the initial stages of nitridation of GaAs(001)-2×4 surface by active nitrogen species generated by a radio-frequency (RF) plasma source. Two effects, i.e. a chemical shift and a shift of the Fermi level due to band bending, take place ... |
Suppose that (Φ, Mn) is a smooth (Z2)-action on a closed smooth n-dimensional manifold such that all Stiefel-Whitney classes of the tangent bundle to each connected component of the fixed point set F vanish in positive dimension. This paper shows that if dim Mn > 2k dimF and each pdimensional part F p possesses the lin... |
Abstract - Dams are gaining more attention in recent years due to the rise of the environmental awareness and ‘renewable energy’ and ‘sustainability’ concepts. Earth emban kment dams are preferred over gravity dams for the ease of construction and economical advantage. Despite considerable advances in the field of ge... |
STUDY OBJECTIVES |
Investigate the relationship between gestational age and weight for gestational age and sleep apnea diagnosis in a cohort of children aged up to 6 years old. |
DESIGN |
A cohort study, using record linked population health data. |
SETTING |
New South Wales, Australia. |
PARTICIPANTS |
398,961 children, born between 2000 and 2004, aged 2.5 to 6 years. |
MEASUREMENTS |
The primary outcome was sleep apnea diagnosis in childhood, first diagnosed between 1 and 6 years of age. Children with sleep apnea were identified from hospital records with the ICD-10 code G47.3: sleep apnea, central or obstructive. |
RESULTS |
A total of 4,145 (1.0%) children with a first diagnosis of sleep apnea were identified. Mean age at first diagnosis was 44.2 months (SD 13.9). Adenoidectomy, tonsillectomy, or both were common among the children diagnosed with sleep apnea (85.6%). Children born preterm compared to term were significantly more likely to... |
CONCLUSIONS |
This is the largest study investigating preterm birth and sleep apnea diagnosis and suggests that diagnosis of sleep disordered breathing is more prevalent in children born preterm, but not those who are small for gestational age.Cytodiagnosis of cutaneous histoplasmosis in HIV positive patient initially presenting wit... |
Histoplasmosis is usually an opportunistic fungal infection in patients with defective cell mediated immunity, and has been considered as one of the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) defining illness. However, cutaneous involvement in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) positive patients is less common, and very... |
This paper presents a new model for optical flow based on the motion of planar regions plus local deformations. The approach exploits brightness information to organize and constrain the interpretation of the motion by using segmented regions of piecewise smooth brightness to hypothesize planar regions in the scene. Pa... |
The temperature-inducible expression vector pJLA5O3 (1) contains the c 1857-controlled lambda promoters PR/PL in tandem followed by the translation initiation region (TIR) of the E. coli atpE gene and convenient cloning sites. Transcription is terminated at the bacteriophage fd terminator (fdtt). The TIR region of the ... |
Almost all moral objections to embryo research depend on one version or another of a slippery slope argument. There is one absolutist consideration which may be thought to decide the question independently of that argument, to the effect that the early embryo simply is a human being. But any plausible use of that consi... |
An investigation was carried out on thermal stability of α-amylase. The influence of various additives (calcium acetate, sodium lactate, L-histidine, and water-soluble chitosan) on the stability of α-amylase was studied. Results showed the inactivation behavior of α-amylase with or without additives all followed the fi... |
Objectives – As a member of the tumor necrosis factor superfamily (TNFSF), LIGHT (TNFSF14) was recently found to be associated with platelets and released upon activation. Increased plasma levels of LIGHT have been reported in patients with myocardial infarction and unstable angina. The aim of the study was to analyze... |
From cultural developmental and relational developmental systems perspectives, the current study employed an exemplar research design along with qualitative content analysis to gain deeper understanding of how adolescents perceived the social influences on their religious and spiritual development (RSD) among religious... |
We consider the problem of applying probability concepts to discover frequent itemsets in a transaction database. The paper presents a probabilistic algorithm to discover association rules. The proposed algorithm outperforms the a priori algorithm for larger databases without losing a single rule. It involves a single ... |
To study the regulatory and functional differentiation between the mesophyll (M) and bundle sheath (BS) cells of maize (Zea mays), we isolated large quantities of highly homogeneous M and BS cells from newly matured second leaves for transcriptome profiling by RNA sequencing. A total of 52,421 annotated genes with at l... |
This paper will first discuss user-centered design factors and how they should be addressed. This will be followed by the actual Janssen experience in successfully designing and building its adverse experience literature database. It will then highlight criteria for the evaluation of information retrieval systems. The ... |
The current study employs the immobilization (IM) rat model to induce osteopenia, parathyroid hormone (PTH) as the anabolic agent to restore bone mass, and 17β‐estradiol, calcitonin, or risedronate as the maintenance agents to answer the following questions: How much cancellous bone loss occurs when PTH is withdrawn? W... |
Seismocardiography has been well studied in terms of analysis, applications, and methods of measurement. However, there remains a lack of research into the explanation and modelling of the involved phenomena. We propose a new contactless method to measure thoracic and sternal movements, demonstrate that it is adequate ... |
We consider the near-horizon geometry of supersymmetric extremal black holes in un-gauged and gauged 5-dimensional supergravity, coupled to abelian vector multiplets. By analyzing the global properties of the Killing spinors, we prove that the near-horizon geometries undergo a supersymmetry enhancement. This follows fr... |
Ultra high strength Fe-Mn-C austenitic steels with low Stacking Fault Energy (SFE) have been studied for more than fifty years [1]. They offer a great potential for reducing automotive body weight through their formability and their high mechanical properties. Tensile strength levels higher than 1000 MPa in combination... |
A remarkable increase in the prevalence of allergic diseaseappears to parallel the postindustrial lifestyle changes inwesternized societies. Insufficient microbial exposureduring infancy and early childhood is one of the proposedexplanations for the increase in prevalence of atopicsensitization and associated clinical ph... |
Summary: Epileptic EEG paroxysms can interfere with cognitive processes producing transitory effects, such as those related to a single spike, as well as long‐lasting effects, such as in electrical status epilepticus during slow‐wave sleep (ESES). Focal spike‐related disruption of cortical functions can produce transi... |
The authors stress the importance of the external branch of the superior laryngeal nerve in laryngeal physiology, by noting the consequences of its section during thyroid surgery. A rigorous anatomical study carried out on 15 fresh cadavers, i.e. 30 superior laryngeal nerves, reproducing the conditions of thyroid surge... |
Cyclooxygenase-1 (COX-1) and cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) are the enzymes responsible for the biosynthesis of the precursor to the biologically active prostaglandins, prostacyclin, and thromboxane and are the molecular targets for nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs (NSAIDs). Selective COX-2 inhibitors are antiinflammatory... |
Objective. To evaluate the effectiveness of spironolactone as a treatment for osteoarthritis (OA)-related knee effusion in comparison to ibuprofen, cold compresses, and placebo. Methods. This study was carried out on 200 patients, aged 40 years or older, attending the outpatient clinic of the Rheumatology Department of... |
If you thought getting an answer to that question would mean getting inside the mind of the criminal, then you haven’t met Kate Bowers. She is less interested in the psychology of criminality than in the mathematics of crime itself, and is convinced that this can shed light on patterns of crime. Take burglary at people... |
Cys118, in the third membrane-spanning segment of the dopamine D2 receptor, is exposed in the binding-site crevice. Cys118 reacts with the highly polar, sulfhydryl-specific reagents methanethiosulfonate ethylammonium (MTSEA) and methanethiosulfonate ethyltrimethylammonium (MTSET), and this reaction is retarded by the p... |
Abstract Solar magnetic fields are believed to originate from the base of convection zone. However, it has been difficult to obtain convincing observational evidence of the magnetic fields in the deep convection zone. The goal of this study is to investigate whether solar meridional flows can be used to detect the magn... |
The necessity of establishing a user-energy management system(U-EMS) is detailed in terms of energy saving and load transfer.On the basis of describing expectable functions and experimental environment,a U-EMS archetype system is designed including the hardware part and software part.The former consists of smart socket... |
regulatory system. Chemical Manufacturers Association spokesperson Jeff Van noted, "While Project XL is a good idea, it will never do more than operate at the margins because of what it is not allowed to do. The enforcement wing of EAA has flexed its muscle and prevented things from happening." A new General Accounting... |
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