Excessively choosing immediate over larger future rewards, or delay discounting (DD), associates with multiple clinical conditions. Individual differences in DD likely depend on variations in the activation of and functional interactions between networks, representing possible endophenotypes for associated disorders, including alcohol use disorders (AUDs). Numerous fMRI studies have probed the ...

OBJECTIVE To review recent evidence on dietary factors associated with diverticular disease (DD) with special emphasis on dietary fibre. QUALITY OF EVIDENCE MEDLINE was searched from January 1966 to December 2001 for articles on the relationship between dietary and other lifestyle factors and DD. Most articles either focused on dietary intervention in treating symptomatic DD or were case-cont...

Dupuytren's disease (DD) is an ill-defined fibroproliferative disorder of the palm of the hands leading to digital contracture. DD commonly occurs in individuals of northern European extraction. Cellular components and processes associated with DD pathogenesis include altered gene and protein expression of cytokines, growth factors, adhesion molecules, and extracellular matrix components. Histo...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effects of an interdisciplinary, guideline-based continuing education course on measures related to the care of adults with developmental disabilities (DD). DESIGN Before-and-after study with a control group. SETTING Ontario. PARTICIPANTS Forty-seven primary care providers (physicians, registered nurses, and nurse practitioners). INTERVENTION Participants eithe...

We sought to determine which type of donor graft provides children and young adults with the best outcomes following liver transplantation. Using the US Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients database, we identified 6467 recipients of first liver transplants during 1989-2000 aged < 30 years. We used Cox models to examine adjusted patient and graft outcomes by age (< 2, 2-10, 11-16, 17-29)...

Developmental Dyscalculia (DD) has long been thought to be a monolithic learning disorder that can be attributed to a specific neurocognitive dysfunction. However, recent research has increasingly recognized the heterogeneity of DD, where DD can be differentiated into subtypes in which the underlying cognitive deficits and neural dysfunctions may differ. The aim was to further understand the he...

Darier's disease (DD) is a rare, dominantly inherited disorder that affects the skin producing a variety of types of lesion. Close examination of lesional DD skin shows the presence of abnormal keratinization (epidermal differentiation) and acantholysis (loss of cohesion) of keratinocytes. A number of clinical studies have described the co-occurrence of various neurological and psychiatric symp...

In older children and adults, density dependence (DD) of forced expiratory flow is present over the majority of the full flow-volume curve. In healthy subjects, DD occurs because the pressure drop from peripheral to central airways is primarily dependent on turbulence and convective acceleration rather than laminar resistance; however, an increase in peripheral resistance reduces DD. We measure...

BACKGROUND History of traumatic experience is common in dissociative disorder (DD), and similarity of symptoms and characteristics between DD and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) encouraged to consider DD as trauma-related disorder. However, conceptualization of DD as a trauma-related syndrome would critically affect diagnosis and treatment strategies. The present study addressed overlap an...

Image denoising is an important step in eliminating any noise impact image transmission process. Recently we presented two approaches for Bivariate based denoising. They were Double Density Discrete Wavelet Transform (DD DWT) and Dual Tree Complex CWT). In both techniques decomposed noisy images with either DD DWT or CWT decompositions then applied the technique removal. this paper propose adap...