Fernando Martinez and co-workers (Feb 19, p 650) highlight that daily use of inhaled corticosteroids is associated with reduced growth, and that intermittent use of these drugs to control mild persistent asthma avoids such growth impairment. This statement could lead physicians and (parents of) patients to think that daily inhaled corticosteroid treatment is unsafe and stunts growth. I would li...

1904 www.thelancet.com Vol 384 November 29, 2014 Doctors treating patients who have had an acute ischaemic stroke must feel the need for speed more feverishly than a racing driver. Stroke does not hurt. There is none of the pain that might be registered on the face of a patient with acute myocardial infarction or the visceral sight of blood in the case of trauma to evoke a sense of immediacy. Y...

Th is study was designed to investigate whether inclusions of coenzyme Q10, alpha lipoic acid and their combination into diets of hens improve egg quality characteristics. Forty-eight, 33 weeks old Lohmann Brown hens were assigned randomly to four groups of 12 hens each and fed either a basal diet or basal diet supplemented with 2 g/ kg coenzyme Q10, 0.4 g/kg alpha lipoic acid and 2 g/kg coenzy...

1984 Methane (CH4) and ammonia (NH3) are emitted to the atmosphere during anaerobic processing of organic matter, and both gases have detrimental environmental eff ects. Methane conversion to biofuel production has been suggested to reduce CH4 emissions from animal manure processing systems. Th e purpose of this research is to evaluate the change in CH4 and NH3 emissions in an animal feeding op...

15 years after its fi rst democratic election, South Africa is in the midst of a profound health transition that is characterised by a quadruple burden of communicable, non-communicable, perinatal and maternal, and injury-related disorders. Non-communicable diseases are emerging in both rural and urban areas, most prominently in poor people living in urban settings, and are resulting in increas...

(Forpus passerinus) was examined, using hematological measurements as indicators of health. Variation in adult hematology with gender, age, time during nesting cycle, and breeding status were examined. Only gender and time during nesting cycle showed signifi cant eff ects on hematology. Females had higher white-blood-cell counts and immunoglobulin-G (IgG) levels than males. Hematocrit was lower...

We study risk aversion and prudence in medical treatment decisions. In a laboratory experiment, we investigate the frequency and intensity of secondand third-order risk preferences, as well as the eff ect of the medical decision context. Risk preferences are assessed through treatment thresholds (the indiff erence point between not treating and treating). Under diagnostic risk, medical decision...

Background Postmastectomy radiotherapy was shown in previous meta-analyses to reduce the risks of both recurrence and breast cancer mortality in all women with node-positive disease considered together. However, the benefi t in women with only one to three positive lymph nodes is uncertain. We aimed to assess the eff ect of radiotherapy in these women after mastectomy and axillary dissection.

JEZDINSKÝ ALEŠ, POKLUDA ROBERT, SLEZÁK KATALIN. 2016. Eff ect of Nutrient Supply on Some Selected Parameters of Sweet Pepper (Capsicum annuum L. cv. ‘HRF’) Transplants. Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis, 64(2): 455–460. In the trial the eff ect of nitrogen defi ciency and potassium surplus on the dry weight, photosynthetic activity (A), transpiration (E), st...

Assembly history, including the order in which species arrive into a community, can infl uence long-term community structure; however we know less about how timing of species arrival may alter assembly especially under varying resource conditions. To explore how the timing of species arrival interacts with resource availability to alter community assembly, we constructed experimental plant comm...