BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Further research is needed to better identify the methods of evaluating processes and outcomes of stroke care. We investigated whether achieving 4 evidence-based components of a care bundle in a Scotland-wide population with ischemic stroke is associated with 30-day and 6-month outcomes. METHODS Using national datasets, we looked at the effect of 4 standards (stroke uni...

The objective of this study was to evaluate the efficiency of two doses of PGF associated or not to hCG on the associated reproductive parameters in dairy goats. A total of 29 goats received two doses of 30μg d-cloprostenol latero-vulvar at a 10 day intervals (Day 1 and Day 10). The does were allocated according to body weight and body condition score into two treatments, to receive hCG (250IU)...

Following 15 days' treatment with saline, 48 mg/kg rubidium chloride, 5 mg/kg imipramine hydrochloride, 10 mg/kg sodium phenobarbitone, 1000 mg/kg piracetam, or 0.20 mg/kg strychnine nitrate all administered intraperitoneally, mice were evaluated by habituation of exploratory activity using an open-field apparatus. In control animals a significant (P less than 0.05) decrease in open-field respo...

BACKGROUND Reports of the association between the time interval from coronary angiography (CAG) to cardiac surgery and risk of postoperative acute kidney injury (AKI) are controversial. We attempted to examine this association by conducting a meta-analysis. METHODS We searched the Pubmed, MEDLINE, EMBASE, Web of Science databases, and the Cochrane Library from January 1966 to March 2013. A me...

A 42-year-old gravida 5 para 3 woman delivered a male newborn at 36 weeks of gestation. She had no significant medical problems and her previous pregnancies led to healthy newborns. The current pregnancy was uneventful and the baby appeared healthy (body weight, 3190 g; Apgar score, 8/10/10). On the second day of life jaundice appeared. Laboratory tests revealed hyperbilirubinemia (total biliru...

The effect of varying trials per day conditions on the CS-US interval or interstimulus interval (ISI) function in rabbit nictitating membrane response conditioning was studied in two experiments. Experiment 1 showed that a 1250-msec IS1 was more effective than a 250-msec IS1 when there was 1 trial/day. Experiment 2 showed that as the number of trials per day decreased from 20 to 1, the superior...

BACKGROUND Increased arterial stiffness is a common finding and independent predictor of mortality in end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients. A long interdialytic interval was associated with increased risk of cardiovascular death in patients receiving conventional haemodialysis (HD). This is the first study to examine the effects of a long (3-day) versus short (2-day) interdialytic period on ...

There are many applications which arise in telecommunications information processing in which it is useful, and often necessary, to create and access multiple hypothetical states. These might correspond to future states reeecting pending updates (such as customer service orders), or hypothetical alternative states that would arise in the exploration of diierent solutions to a given problem. In ...