... slips and trips were perceived and reported (average: 1.0 perturbation per week per participant) 3.3 Falls Eighty-two falls were reported by 46 participants (52%) The number of falls ranged from ... the participant reported that a fall had occurred, follow-up questions regarding the circumstances of the fall were presented (for example, see Fig 1b; full set of questions provided in Supplemental ... typically examined by asking participants to recall falls in the preceding month, preceding year, or preceding two years (e.g Talbot et al., 2005) However, fall memory is known to be problematic...
... (slope: 0.281, p < 0.001) Less pronounced progression was also identified for pulmonary hyperinflation (FRCpleth: slope: 0.154, p < 0.0001),) and trapped gas (VTG: slope: 0.185, p < 0.0001) Page ... biomedical community peer reviewed and published immediately upon acceptance cited in PubMed and archived on PubMed Central yours — you keep the copyright BioMedcentral Submit your manuscript ... 11 and 19, as well as the promoter region) was performed for each patient using a well-established single strand conformation polymorphism/heteroduplex (SSCP/HD) analysis This was followed by...
... spermatophore is formed The spermatophore is characteristic of the male cephalopod The spermatophoric gland is connected by the spermatophoric duct to the Needham sac (spermatophore depository) ... spawners or repeatedly for species that spawn more than once The following description of the main processes which take place during reproductive system development in different groups of cephalopods ... sperm mass with different secretions to form the spermatophore (Drew, 191 9) Spermatophores usually accumulate in the Needham sac Each spermatophore is therefore analogous to a single egg laying...
... Colette Pryor for collating incidence data and Katrina Brown for invaluable support in preparing the report for submission Funding This work was undertaken by DM Parkin with financial support from ... relevant papers are carefully considered Once accepted, papers are published rapidly and, at the editor’s discretion, certain papers are accelerated for fast track publication Full research papers ... Copyright, Designs and Patent Act 198 8, this publication may be reproduced, stored or transmitted in any form or by any means, only with the prior permission in writing of the publishers, or...
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... Dosimetric parameters predictive of risk of RP as reported in the literature The file contains a number of important dosimetric parameters predictive of risk of RP as reported in the literature Competing ... 1) Sex, age, smoking history, pre-existing pulmonary disease, performance score and pulmonary function before radiotherapy have been reported to affect the risk for radiation pneumonitis [7,26,29-31] ... Additional file Clinical parameters predictive of risk of RP as reported in the literature The file contains a number of important clinical parameters predictive of risk of RP as reported in the literature...
... illustrated by Kennedy (198 1), Dempfle et al (198 3) and Lin and McAllister (198 4) The variance components estimated for SG were used for breeding value estimation (EBV) through the BLUP i procedure ... important individual factor affecting cattle production in this country For the last 15 years, a great number of papers has been published with respect to genetic aspects of reproductive performance ... Gravert, 197 3; Janson, 198 0; Jansen, 198 6 for nonreturn rate as a trait related to CR) This is due to the reduced culling rate applied in our female population, so these data show a complete picture...
... archived on PubMed Central yours — you keep the copyright BioMedcentral Submit your manuscript here: http://www.biomedcentral.com/info/publishing_adv.asp Page of (page number not for citation purposes) ... sense were performed as previously described [19, 20] The presence of a forefoot weight bearing callus was determined Plantar forefoot fat pad atrophy was defined as a plurality of prominent metatarsal ... injury, http://www.jfootankleres.com/content/2/1/11 or history of ablative or elective foot surgery were also excluded Participants signed an informed consent approved by the Committee for Protection...
... samples are represented as a function of factors PC1 and PC2, and PC1 and PC3 Figure 4A shows the two-dimensional principal component score plot using the first two score vectors, PC1 and PC2, which ... University of Naples ‘Federico II’, Via Universita’ 133, 80055 Portici (NA), Italy Sensory analyses were performed by a trained panel working in a sensory laboratory under defined (temperature and ... spectrometer Injection volume was 50 μL MS: Analyses were performed using a single-quadrupole API 100 mass spectrometer equipped with an electrospray (ESI) source in positive mode The operating...
... SNPs in polymorphic genes (e.g IL-4Rα) The importance of haplotype analysis is further supported by the following studies Seven SNPs in the IL-13 gene have been shown to be tightly linked [19] , ... multiple genotypes are commonly tested for a large number of atopy-related (sub)phenotypes (using various statistical approaches) in often considerably small sample sizes Therefore, type errors ... receptor haplotypes alter receptor expression and predict in vivo responsiveness Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2000, 97:1048310488 Turki J, Pak J, Green SA, Martin RJ, Liggett SB: Genetic polymorphisms...
... centrifuged at 1550 rpm for 15 minutes Plasma was removed and stored at -80°C PBMCs were purified from blood samples using Lymphocyte Separation Medium from ICN (Aurora, OH) and washed with phosphate ... manuscript JR performed the antibody titers, analysed data and helped draft the manuscript NL performed diagnostic PCR, designed and performed viral quantitation assays and participated in the ... reviewed and published immediately upon acceptance cited in PubMed and archived on PubMed Central yours — you keep the copyright BioMedcentral Submit your manuscript here: http://www.biomedcentral.com/info/publishing_adv.asp...
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... World Bank working paper, March 199 8 http://www.worldbank.org/html/dec/Publications/Workpapers/WPS1900series/wps1932 /wps1932 .pdf Ostro, B., 199 4, "Estimating the Health Effects of Air Pollutants: ... 4a/c2b8735dfad817f08525671c007d28a0/$FILE/HEALTH .pdf Environmental Health Project, 199 9 "Lowering Exposure of Children to Indoor Air Pollution to Prevent ARI: The Need for Information and Action", Capsule Report Number 3, January 199 9 http://www.globalforumhealth.org/docs/Forum3doc321.htm ... Trade and accepted by the Government in 199 4 The energy saving expected from the program is approximately 64 PJ/year The benefits were estimated using monitoring data and population/ recipient data...
... of daily living (ADLs) (i.e., preparing meals, doing laundry, climbing stairs, shopping, yard work, driving a car, visiting friends, washing dishes, vacuuming, making beds, and walking several ... following: a prior FM diagnosis by a rheumatologist or pain specialist, experienced widespread pain (above and below the waist and on both sides of the body) for months or more, experienced pain ... sleep quantity scale is the mean number of hours of sleep per night reported over the past week Higher scores represent more of the concept being measured The HADS is designed to detect the presence...
... certain patients, with special needs, postoperatively The physiotherapists reported that during weekdays they routinely treated patients on postoperative day (90%), postoperative day (93%), postoperative ... the physiotherapists Physiotherapy-supervised stair climbing was practised postoperatively, according to 79% of the physiotherapists Sternal precautions Sternal precautions recommended for the ... described technique for getting out of bed was lying on the side, placing one or both hands in front of the body, leaning forward and pushing up to a sitting position Postoperative information Before...
... Ramachan GN (196 5) Stereochemical criteria for polypeptide and protein chain conformations allowed conformations for a pair of peptide units Biophys J 5, 909 36 Moore GR & Pettigrew GW (199 0) Cytochromes ... heterologously expressed in P denitrificans strain 2131 containing the pEG400.Tv1 plasmid [18] The M100K variant was constructed as previously reported [7] and expressed in Escherichia coli Purification ... both proteins was carried out as reported [18] Purity of samples for crystallization experiments and unfolding studies was checked by SDS ⁄ PAGE and from absorbance ratios in the UV-vis spectrum;...
... community peer reviewed and published immediately upon acceptance cited in PubMed and archived on PubMed Central yours — you keep the copyright BioMedcentral Submit your manuscript here: http://www.biomedcentral.com/info/publishing_adv.asp ... mortality and morbidity In general, single-pollutant correlations sometimes disappeared when other pollutants such as suspended particulate matter (SPM) were included A study on indoor air pollution ... 2003, 58:901-907 Morice AH, Geppetti P: Cough 5: The type vanilloid receptor: a sensory receptor for cough Thorax 2004, 59:257-258 Ahmedzai SH: Cough in cancer patients Pulm Pharmacol Ther 2004,...
... based on the assumption that the pine forest was well coupled aerodynamically [17]; thus D approximated the total driving force for transpiration We checked the assumption of strong coupling ... modeling approaches have used The development of proper methods for averaging canopy stomatal conductance, both spatially and temporally, remains a subject of active research In temporal representations ... between sap flux and vapor pressure deficit leading to magnified errors at low absolute values of vapor pressure deficit, slight biases in measurements of either vapor pressure deficit or sap flow...
... nonRaynaud symptoms were recorded All patients reported the occurrence of Raynaud’s phenomenon after exposure to low temperatures The modified Page of 10 (page number not for citation purposes) Available ... analyzed according to the presence of fingertip ulcers (limited SSc without fingertip ulcers: n = 13; median, 332 pg/ml; range, 185–826 pg/ml; limited SSc with fingertip ulcers: n = 7; median, ... fingers were analyzed for the following parameters: presence of enlarged and giant capillaries, pericapillary edema, hemorrhages, loss of capillaries, ramified/bushy capillaries and disorganization...
... Emphasis on MR Imaging Edited by: Fix C Philadelphia, PA: W.B Saunders; 199 7:562-565 595–630 26 Beltran J: The Knee In MRI Musculoskeletal System Philadelphia, PA: J.B Lippincott Company; 199 0:7.29-7.5 ... demographics, symptoms, JSW, and other MRI findings, was investigated using the Spearman correlation test Finally, multivariate forward stepwise correlations were used to assess predictors of ... Thériault for their technical expertise This study was supported in part by a grant from Procter & Gamble Pharmaceuticals (Mason, OH, USA) References Page 10 of 11 (page number not for citation purposes)...