The Baby Teeth Talk Study (BTT) is a partnership-based research project looking at interventions to prevent early childhood caries (ECC) in First Nations populations in Canada. Community-based researchers (CBRs) conducted preventive and behavioral interventions that targeted expectant mothers and their newborns, over a 3-year period. The work of the CBRs requires a great deal of training and sk...

Coinheritance of hereditary spherocytosis (HS) and b thalassemia is very rare. HS is a familial haemolytic disorder resulting from primary abnormality of red cell membrane. It is transmitted as an autosomal dominant trait. b thalassemia is also a common inherited disorder. In Indians, the frequency of b thalassemia is reported between 3.5&14.9% [1]. The haemolytic anemia resulting from their co...

BACKGROUND The true relevance of allosensitization in patients benefiting from left ventricular assist device (LVAD) as bridge to transplant (BTT) is still debated. Available registry data referred to numerous devices precluding LVAD-specific analysis. Therefore, we studied all patients with Novacor LVAD prior to transplantation. METHODS From 1985 to 2006, 37 Novacor LVADs were implanted as B...

There seems to be a minimal core that every theory wishing to accommodate the intuition that the future is open must contain: a denial of physical determinism (i.e. the thesis that what future states the universe will be in is implied by what states it has been in), and a denial of strong fatalism (i.e. the thesis that, at every time, what will subsequently be the case is metaphysically necessa...

OBJECTIVES This study sought to assess the impact of continuous flow left ventricular assist devices (LVADs) on functional capacity and heart failure-related quality of life. BACKGROUND Newer continuous-flow LVAD are smaller and quieter than pulsatile-flow LVADs. METHODS Data from advanced heart failure patients enrolled in the HeartMate II LVAD (Thoratec Corporation, Pleasanton, California...

Kendaraan listrik mulai diperbanyak di Indonesia. Bandara pun juga ikut memajukan perkembangan kendaraan ini pada Baggage Towing Tractor (BTT). BTT digunakan untuk menarik muatan bagasi pesawat menuju antrian terminal. menggunakan mesin sebagai penggerak dan baterai 80V sumber tegangannya. Baterai belum dimanajemen dengan baik, sehingga dapat menyebabkan usia pakai yang berkurang. rentan mengal...

Üç boyutlu bir yapıya ait özellikleri iki kesitler aracılığıyla tanımlayan stereoloji, düzensiz şekle sahip organ ve dokuların hacminin kolayca ölçümünü sağlar. Bu araştırmada stereoloji bilgisayarlı toraks tomografi (BTT) görüntüleri üzerinden hesaplanacak akciğer hacimleri ile antero-posterior direkt grafiler izdüşüm yüzey alanları arasındaki ilişkiyi ortaya koymak amaçlandı. BTT restrospekti...