BACKGROUND Limited utility data on patients suffering from overactive bladder (OAB) are available in the literature. The objectives of this study were to estimate utility values in patients with OAB using the generic EQ-5D questionnaire and the OAB-5D disease specific questionnaire, to investigate the relationship between utilities and symptoms, and to evaluate the sensitivity of the two instru...

BACKGROUND We would like to analyze the risk factors of no thumb test among knee alignment tests during total knee arthroplasty surgery. METHODS The 156 cases of total knee arthroplasty by an operator from October 2009 to April 2010 were analyzed according to preoperative indicators including body weight, height, degree of varus deformity, and patella subluxation and surgical indicators such ...

Abstract: The objective of this work was to determine the biological and morphological parameters Dysdercus maurus fed with cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) seeds a high or low oil content, as well identify genotypes be used in breeding programs sources resistance stink bug. development, survival, reproduction stainer bug were determined completely randomized experimental design. treatments consiste...

W HO's Director-General recently put the so-called failure of WHO to respond rapidly and adequately to the Ebola epidemic squarely on the shoulders of the member states, who year after year have restricted WHO's budget options and never contributed to the emergency fund that was called for after the H1N1 influenza scare in 2009. WHO has GOARN, a Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network, which...

Here we present the detailed investigation of AGNs in two Seyfert 1 galaxies, LEDA 3095839 and VII Zw 244. Both them were observed within photometric reverberation mapping project Special Astrophysical Observatory Russian Academy Sciences (SAO RAS), during which earlier obtained SMBHs masses. After that, both galaxies spectropolarimetric polarimetric modes on BTA 6 m telescope SAO RAS with foca...