Methods The study was performed on 54 patients admitted to Matei Bals Institute Bucharest, between January 2010 July 2010, out of which 30 women and 24 men aged 21-64 years. 14 patients were diagnosed with HIV stage C3(CDC criteria), 11 with HBV and 14 with HCV infection, while 15 were healthy controls. We assessed the plasma level of 25-OHD(nmol/L, Elisa kit, Immunodiagnostic Systems), IFN g, ...

The Wilcoxon rank-sum test is widely used to test the equality of two populations, because it makes fewer distributional assumptions than parametric procedures such as the t-test. However, the Wilcoxon rank-sum test can be used only if data are independent. When data are clustered, tests based on generalized estimating equations (GEEs) that generalize the t-test have been proposed. Here we deve...

This study investigates whether working memory capacity (WMC) varies across languages and in the course of L2 speech proficiency levels. Following suggestions in Finardi and Weissheimer (2009) and Prebianca (2010), who found that WMC varied as a function of L2 speech proficiency, the present study assessed three proficiency levels (elementary, intermediate and advanced) and two languages (L1-Po...

Mobile banking (m-banking) faces various types of resistance that may hinder customers’ adoption in Egypt. This study identifies three groups of m-banking non-adopters, namely postponers, opponents and rejectors. The objective of the study is to explore the reasons for resisting m-banking services in Egypt and whether it differs with regards to these customer groups. Accordingly, a questionnair...

OBJECTIVE The association between patterns of change in self-rated health (SRH) and memory trajectories in older adults was examined using a systematic approach. METHOD Data from the Health and Retirement Study ( n = 6,016) and the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing ( n = 734) were analyzed. Individuals were grouped into five categories according to their pattern of change in SRH over 8 yea...

Materials and Methods: Research ethics committee approval and patient written informed consent were obtained. Working memory brain activation patterns were assessed with functional MR imaging in 30 patients (15 consecutive men and 15 consecutive women) with MTBI and 30 control subjects (15 consecutive men and 15 consecutive women). Two imaging studies were performed in patients: the initial stu...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether the Evaluation of Social Interaction (ESI) is sensitive enough to differentiate between people without identified diagnoses and those with neurologic or psychiatric disorders in terms of their observed quality of social interaction. METHOD Participants were age 16-69 and were without identified diagnoses (n = 304) or had neurologic (n = 77) or psychiatric (n = 1...

Methods The study including idiopathic scoliosis with 45° or more, Risser 0-4, who had utterly deny any surgical intervention. Fulfill the inclusion criteria 160 patients. Of these, 104 patients has definite outcome, 28 abandoned treatment and 28 are currently under treatment. The minimum duration of follow-up was 24 months. Xrays was used to to obtain Cobb degrees and torsion of the apical ver...