BACKGROUND Abnormalities in prefrontal and anterior cingulate cortices are implicated in disturbances of attention, cognition, and impulse regulation in bipolar disorder. Acute episodes have been associated with dysfunction in these brain regions, and more enduring trait-related dysfunction has been implicated by volumetric and cellular abnormalities in these regions. The relative contributions...

The distribution of fat tissue is related to the risk metabolic diseases. Parathyroid Hormone (PTH) an essential hormone for calcium homeostasis. According several types research, body affects PTH levels. Currently, Body Mass Index (BMI) not only parameter needed identify in accordance with chronic disease risks such as Waist Circumference (WC), Hip Ratio (WHR), and Height (WHtR). study aimed d...

BACKGROUND Information and communication technology (ICT) has been used with increasing frequency for the assessment of diet and physical activity in health surveys. A number of Web-based questionnaires have been developed for children and adolescents. However, their usability characteristics have scarcely been reported, despite their potential importance for improving the feasibility and valid...

Using field observations of ~15 wild adult black bear (Ursus americanus kermodei) foraging on a salmon stream during two autumns on the central coast of British Columbia, we tested for laterality of forelimb use during lunging and during handling of salmon. Of 288 lunging events observed overall, 53% were non biased, 26% were right-limb biased, and 21% left-limb biased (p = .53 between left and...

A retrospective case-control study was conducted to determine why some infants born full-term without obstetric intervention to hepatitis B e antigen (HBeAg)-seropositive mothers become infected by hepatitis B virus (HBV) despite having received passive-active immunoprophylaxis. Cases and controls comprised 12 hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg)-seropositive infants and 22 HBsAg-seronegative in...

BACKGROUND Both in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and in the European Union (EU2004), ample availability of up to date medical scientific literature is important for progress in medical science and for the education of the next generation of healthcare workers. The aim of this research is to assess if the use of online medical literature among academic teaching (AT) physicians is ...

This paper presents the SonarEditor, which supports the creation of Sonar models. It provides pre-build net components, a wellformedness check and a wizard that aims at the support for possible enhancements of the model. SonarEditor [1] is a prototypical implementation that enables multi-agent system developers to model organizational models following the Sonar formalism. It is implemented as p...

somatic embryogenesis is a new approache to plant mass in vitro propagation. this method influences by elements and their components in medium. in order to investigate the effects of different media and it,s role on somatic embryogenesis of carrot, a cbd experiment with four replications (including 12 treatments) was conducted. to do this, carrot petioles (with 1 cm dimension) in induction phas...

We investigated the frequency and neurocognitive correlates of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and traits of this disorder (ADHD/Traits) after childhood stroke and orthopedic diagnosis in medical controls. Twenty-nine children with focal stroke lesions and individually matched children with clubfoot or scoliosis were studied with standardized psychiatric, intellectual, academic, adapti...