BACKGROUND Although there is abundant evidence to recommend a physically active lifestyle, adult physical activity (PA) levels have declined over the past two decades. In order to understand why this happens, numerous studies have been conducted to uncover the reasons for people's participation in PA. Often, the measures used were not broad enough to reflect all the reasons for participation in...

Primary hyperhidrosis (HH) commonly affects the axillae, palms, soles, face, and/or the groin. There are limited treatment options available for HH of areas other than the axillae and palms/soles. Botulinum neurotoxin-A is an effective and safe treatment option for most hyperhidrotic areas of the body. Areas that are commonly affected, such as the face and groin, and less common areas like the ...

The Good-Walker mechanism for diffraction is shown to provide a link between total and diffractive structure functions and to be relevant for QCD calculations at small x Bj. For Deep-Inelastic scattering on a small-size target (cf. an onium) the rôle of Good-Walker " diffractive eigenstates " is played by the QCD dipoles appearing in the 1/N C limit of QCD. Hard diffraction is thus related to t...

A total of 63 beef offal samples (beef liver = 16; beef lung = 14; beef intestine = 9; beef tripe = 15; beef spleen = 9) from three wet markets (A, B, and C) in Selangor, Malaysia were examined for the prevalence and microbial load of Listeria monocytogenes. A combination of the most probable number and polymerase chain reaction (MPN-PCR) method was employed in this study. It was found that L. ...

Liver palms or palmar erythema are well recognized as a clinical feature of hepato-cellular disease (Sherlock, 1968). They have also been recorded in many other conditions, such as pregnancy, chronic febrile states, leukaemia, thyrotoxicosis, and rheumatoid arthritis (Copeman, 1964; Ragan, 1966; Sherlock, 1968). In the last-named disease the prevalence of palmar erythema has not been, to our kn...

f ABSTRACT The characteristics of the palm community in Amazonian terra firme forests are defined from three inventories carried out in the lower Tocantins (east), the lower Rio Negro (center), and the lower Ucayali (west) valleys. At all sites, most of the palms are small, understory species; the palm community is mainly under 10 m in height (99.8 to 99.9%); and adult arborescent palms occur a...

Dear Editor, A 10-year-old boy presented with progressive thickening of the nails over the previous 5 years. He did not have any other cutaneous and/or systemic symptoms. He was born to healthy non-consanguineous parents following an uneventful pregnancy. Upon examination, he was found to have symmetrical involvement of the finger and toenails with marked hard thickening of the distal portion o...

Comprising a natural and distinctive group, palms (Arecaceae) differ from other woody plants in their structure and growth features that require or offer unique and sometimes advantageous landscape management opportunities. Although palms are a mostly tropical group that lacks dormancy and cold tolerance, there are numerous species possessing sufficient cool or cold hardiness to be suitable for...

BUMC PROCEEDINGS 2003;16:236–238 A34-year-old man presented with a 2-week history of a relatively asymptomatic truncal rash with gradual spread to involve his face, limbs, palms, and soles. Approximately 10 days before onset of the rash, he experienced a flulike episode with mild arthralgias, sore throat, and mild headache that had reappeared intermittently prior to his evaluation. Physical exa...