BACKGROUND Anxiety and psychological stress affect allergy-related immune function. How these relations influence the evaluations of patients with allergic rhinitis is unknown. OBJECTIVE To examine whether anxiety and stress exposure affect skin prick test (SPT) responses to common allergens for which patients with atopy showed no prior positive SPT response. METHODS Patients with allergic ...

Penetration testing entails attacking a system to identify and report insecurity, but doing so without harming the system nor encroaching on the dignity of those affected by it. To improve the interaction between penetration testers and their processes and technology, we need to understand the factors that affect decisions they make with ethical import. This paper presents four ethical hazards ...

This paper reports about the analysis of the Internet diffusion among families and business basing on daily observations on registrations of second level domain names underneath the “.it” ccTLD . In particular, domains registered by individuals are analysed. The penetration rate over the relevant population of potential adopters is computed at highly disaggregated geographical level (province)....

Our aims were to evaluate the performance of an automated microfluidic immunoassay system for measuring allergen-specific IgE (sIgE) in sera against an established in vitro assay and to assess the system's diagnostic accuracy against objective clinical criteria for identifying sensitization to specific allergens in daily practice of allergy clinics. Using both the automated microfluidic-based i...

Abstract A strong earthquake with Mw 6.3 occurred in Yogyakarta on May 27, 2006, causes of damage to DI Province and Central Java Province, including Klaten Regency. The geological stratigraphy consists volcanic breccias, lava tuff this area generally shallow groundwater levels, which can trigger liquefaction. potential liquefaction analysis study uses Standard Penetration Test (SPT) data carri...