In Nepal, the setting up and maintaining of reliable services for slit-skin smears has proven difficult. A clinical classification system for leprosy has therefore been developed to assist in the allocation of patients to either paucibacillary or multibacillary groups for the purpose of multiple drug therapy (MDT), using 9 body areas: head (1), arms (2), legs (2), trunk (4). Patients with more ...

Researchers have used many different methods to detect the possibility of long-term dependence (long memory) in stock market returns, but evidence is in general mixed. In this paper, three different tests, (namely Rescaled Range (R/S), its modified form, and the semi-parametric method (GPH)), in addition to a new approach using the discrete wavelet transform, (DWT), have been applied to the dai...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study is to observe the inhibitive effects of p66Shc gene interfering lentivirus vectors on the expression of p66Shc, and to explore its effects on alveolar epithelial cells apoptosis induced by hyperoxia. METHODS The gene sequences were cloned into the pLenR-GPH-shRNA lentiviral vector, which was selected by Genebank searches. The pLenR-GPH-shRNA and lentiviral vec...

e18644 Background: Assessments of health-related quality life (HRQOL) are conducted by health systems to analyze and improve patient-centered care. Numerous studies have shown that the COVID-19 pandemic poses unique stressors for patients with cancer. However, impact on HRQOL in cancer is unknown. This study investigates change self-reported global scores before during pandemic. Methods: In thi...

Abstract. Dry conditions associated with the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and a positive Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) are known to have caused major fire pollution events intense carbon emissions over vast spatial expanse of Indonesia in October 2006 2015. During these two events, substantial increase monoxide (CO) mixing ratio was detected by situ measurements at Lulin Atmospheric Backgrou...

Background The second COVID-19 vaccination in autoimmune disease (COVAD-2) study [1] is an international, multicentre, self-reported e-survey designed to evaluate several facets covering infection and as well validated patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) a variety of diseases (AIDs), including systemic sclerosis (SSc). Detailed assessment the health-related quality life (HRQOL) its driver...