BACKGROUND Australian General Practitioners (GPs) are in the forefront of primary health care and in an excellent position to communicate with their patients and educate them about Complementary Medicines (CMs) use. However previous studies have demonstrated that GPs lack the knowledge required about CMs to effectively communicate with patients about their CMs use and they perceive a need for i...

BACKGROUND Chronic mountain sickness (CMS) is a complex medical and public health problem that seriously affects highland immigrants. This study investigated relationships between community-level factors and CMS. METHODS In this ecological study, data on age- and ethnicity-standardized CMS rates, community factors, and controlling variables were obtained from 2009-2010 surveys of 108 Chinese ...

A low noise, low power, radiation hard, full custom integrated circuit has been studied for coupling with photodetectors of the CMS electromagnetic calorimeter. A new version of the prototype preamplifier has been designed with improved performances (noise, dynamic range, consumption). Irradiation tests on this monolithic circuit have been performed at CERN with a Xray SEIFERT RP149 generator u...

Nearly all practical applications of the theory characteristic modes (CMs) involve use computational tools. This article is second in a series five on CM [1] – rid="ref2" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"/> rid="ref3" rid="ref4" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.or...

Manufacturing industries are under intense pressure from the increasingly competitive global marketplace. Shorter product lifecycle, time to market and diverse customer needs have challenged manufacturers to improve the efficiency and productivity of their production activities. Manufacturing systems should be able to adjust or respond quickly to adopt necessary changes in product design and pr...

BACKGROUND Accumulating epidemiological evidence shows that life event stressors are major vulnerability factors for psychiatric diseases such as major depression. It is also well known that the resident intruder paradigm (RIP) results in aggressive behavior in male rats. However, it is not known how resident intruder paradigm-induced aggression affects depressive-like behavior in isolated male...

Collagenous micronodules (CMs) are microscopic stromal nodular eosinophilic fibrillar collagen deposition of uncertain histogenesis seen in prostatic adenocarcinoma. Per the 2005 International Society of Urologic Pathology (ISUP) consensus conference, they are categorized as Gleason pattern 3. This study analyzes morphological and clinical features of CMs from a large series of radical prostate...

Brassicaceae crops display strong hybrid vigor, and have long been subject to F1 hybrid breeding. Because the most reliable system of F1 seed production is based on cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS), various types of CMS have been developed and adopted in practice to breed Brassicaceae oil seed and vegetable crops. CMS is a maternally inherited trait encoded in the mitochondrial genome, and the ...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the biopharmaceutical behavior of colistin methanesulfonate (CMS) with special focus on colistin presystemic formation after CMS nebulization in rats. CMS was administered (15 mg x kg(-1) of body weight) either intravenously for systemic pharmacokinetic studies (n = 6) or as an intratracheal nebulization for systemic pharmacokinetic studies (n = 5) or for C...