OBJECTIVES This study was undertaken to evaluate the effect of hyperbaric oxygen (HBO) on the repair of critical-sized defects in the presence and absence of a nonvascularized autogenous bone graft. STUDY DESIGN Ten New Zealand White rabbits were randomly divided into 2 groups of 5 animals each. Bilateral 15-mm calvarial defects were created in the parietal bones of each animal, resulting in ...

Background: Shorter hospitalisation after childbirth raises new challenges in the transition to parenthood. Aim. This paper reports a study designed to identify first-time mothers’ experience with The Neonatal Behavioral Observation System (NBO) as a guiding model. Method: A phenomenological qualitative study sampling four first-time mothers who received guidance from the NBO-specialist nurse t...

Stroke is a leading cause of death and disability due to disturbance of blood supply to the brain. As brain is highly sensitive to hypoxia, insufficient oxygen supply is a critical event contributing to ischemic brain injury. Normobaric hyperoxia (NBO) that aims to enhance oxygen delivery to hypoxic tissues has long been considered as a logical neuroprotective therapy for ischemic stroke. To da...

We analysed RXTE data of Sco X-1 which show kHz quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) and the ∼6–8 Hz normal-branch oscillation (NBO) simultaneously. Using power spectra of 0.03–0.5 s data segments, we find that both the upper kHz QPO frequency ν2 and the ratio of lower to upper kHz QPO amplitude are anticorrelated to variations in the X-ray count-rate taking place on the NBO time scale. The frequ...

OBJECTIVE To examine weight change trajectories among overweight and obese patients with binge eating disorder (BED) versus without (NBO) during the year prior to seeking treatment. METHODS Participants were 97 (75 women, 22 men) overweight and obese patients recruited for the same weight-loss treatment in primary care; 26 (27%) met DSM-5 BED criteria. Participants were assessed with the Eati...

Optimal geometries, charge distributions, bond analysis, changes of Gibbs free energy, entropies and enthalpies of hydration, and hydrolysis reactions for mononuclear species of Zn(2+) including hydrated and hydrolysis complexes were investigated using quantum chemical calculations in the gas phase. Optimized geometrical structures showed that the stable hydrated and hydrolysis zinc species wit...

The electronic geometries and optical properties of two D-π-A type zinc porphyrin dyes (NCH₃-YD2 and TPhe-YD) were systematically investigated by density functional theory (DFT) and time-dependent density functional theory (TD-DFT) to reveal the origin of significantly altered charge transfer enhancement by changing the electron donor of the famous porphyrin-based sensitizer YD2-o-C8. The molec...

Dications of 9-(3-phenyl-1H-inden-1-ylidene)-5H-dibenzo[a,d]cycloheptene, 5(2+), were prepared by oxidation with SbF(5) in SO(2)ClF, and their magnetic behavior was compared to dications of 9-(3-phenyl-1H-inden-1-ylidene)-9H-fluorene, 2(2+). The good correlation between the experimental (1)H NMR shifts for the dications that were oxidized cleanly and the chemical shifts calculated by the GAIO m...

We have demonstrated the suitability of a self-aligned in-line (SAIL) technique for the preparation of ultra-small high-ohmic tunnel junctions as required for the investigation of singlecharge tunneling phenomena. The Coulomb blockade has been observed at 14mK by means of a series array of five AI/AIO,/AI tunnel junctions operated in the normal-conducting state. We have applied this conception ...

Conformation-dependent properties of L-tyrosine and L-tryptophan in neutral and radical cations were studied by using the density functional theory (DFT) with a new density functional M05-2X. The results are compared with those obtained by using the conventional DFT (B3LYP). Results obtained by both types of DFT were in qualitative accord, including the existence of two conformational subgroups...