To date, shift workers represent between 15% and 25% of the modern day workforce. Work time poses a great challenge to workers as it requires that they balance productivity and sleep time between shifts. As a result, these workers experience chronic sleep deprivation with increased fatigue and drowsiness due to this sleep deprivation. The impact of this kind of work on the immune system is not ...

Many persons with severe and profound disabilities exhibit chronic and excessive drooling, which can have unfavorable effects on their socialization and health. Few treatments to reduce this behavior, however, have been evaluated systematically. In the present investigation, oral motor stimulation was used with 2 children who attended a residential educational facility for students who are blin...

Extensive sensory denervation produced by spinal anesthesia is frequently accompanied under clinical conditions by development of somnolence.' The present study was instituted to investigate this phenomenon electroencephalographically in man under controlled conditions, a review of the literature having failed to reveal data on EEG response to experimentally produced acute extensive sensory den...

BACKGROUND The urban soundscape, which represents the totality of noise in the urban setting, is formed from a wide range of sources. One of the most ubiquitous and least studied of these is street-level (i.e., sidewalk) noise. Mainly associated with vehicular traffic, street level noise is hard to ignore and hard to escape. It is also potentially dangerous, as excessive noise from any source i...

BACKGROUND Good understanding of medication instructions is paramount to a good pharmaceutical care. The aim of our study was to examine the understandability of the selected three most applicable pictograms by participants and their recall after educational mini sessions. MATERIALS AND METHODS First, nine experienced pharmacists selected the three most potentially applicable pictograms. Pict...

Strains of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae that contain highly efficient amber (UAG) suppressors grow poorly on nutrient medium, while normal or nearly normal growth rates are observed when these strains lose the supressors or when the suppressors are mutated to lower efficiencies. The different growth rates account for the accumulation of mutants with lowered efficiencies in cultures of str...

BACKGROUND Drooling can be a severe disability and have high impact on daily life. Reversible treatment is preferable. AIM To analyse whether sublingual administration of atropine eyedrops is a useful reversible treatment option for severe drooling in children with disabilities. DESIGN The study had a prospective, single-system research design. The participants served as their own controls....

PURPOSE To evaluate the safety and efficacy of topical brimonidine 0.2% use in children. MATERIALS AND METHODS A descriptive study of twelve successive children (21 eyes) who needed topical treatment of intraocular hypertension, and where the use of b-blockers was contraindicated. RESULTS During treatment we observed an average decrease of IOP of 5 SD 1.8 mmHg (21% of basal IOP), but found ...

Using the formalism of bicycles we present an excess intersection formula in Kasparov’s group KKG(X,Y ). Resumé Dans le cadre de bicycles ( cycles bivariants ) nous donnons une formule d’intersection excessive.

BACKGROUND Excessive gestational weight gain (GWG) poses negative impact on mothers and their children. It is important to understand the modifiable lifestyle factors associated with excessive GWG during pregnancy to guide future public health practice. AIM To investigate the association between physical activity during pregnancy and GWG of Chinese urban pregnant women. METHODS A pregnant w...