normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa microsoftinternetexplorer4 background : according to beck theory, dysfunctional attitude has a central role in emergence of depression. the aim of this study was to determine contributions of dysfunctional attitude and general health index to depression. methods : in this case-control study, two groups of subjects participated. the first group consi...

Abstract Background Regurgitation following TAVR impacts all-cause mortality. So far, no quantitative comparison of regurgitation by the same core lab has been performed among various commercially available transcatheter heart valves (THV) We aimed to compare angiographic aortic (AR) 11 different types THVs. Method This is a multicentre retrospective corelab pooled analysis aortograms from 2704...

The effects of beta-3 adrenergic receptor (beta3-AR) agonists on gastrointestinal (GI) motility, as reported by stomach retention and intestinal transit of radiolabelled charcoal, were compared in wild-type (WT) mice and in transgenic mice lacking beta3-AR (beta3-AR[KO]) or having beta3-AR in white and brown adipose tissue only (beta3-AR[WAT+BAT]). After s.c. administration of 3 mg/kg of the se...

Background: Fungal aeroallergens might sensitize the airway which in turn produces a specific cytokine profile. Objective: To evaluate the IL-25 and IL-33 profile in patients with fungal allergic rhinitis. Methods: The present study examined patients who were evaluated due to allergic rhinitis (AR) at Emam Reza Hospital of Shiraz, Iran. The all...

Well-separated pair decomposition, introduced by Callahan and Kosaraju [3], has found numerous applications in solving proximity problems for points in the Euclidean space. A pair of point sets (A, B) is c-well-separated if the distance between A,B is at least c times the diameters of both A and B. A well-separated pair decomposition of a point set consists of a set of well-separated pairs that...

People in South Asia who neither believe god(s) nor engage religious practices nevertheless often self-identify as Muslims or Hindus rather than—or addition to—identifying atheists. The situational and contextual dynamics generating such positionings have implications for the conceptualization of nonreligion secular lives. Based on ethnographic research India Bangladesh focusing two individuals...

Stimulation of myocardial β(1)-adrenoceptors (AR) is a major mechanism that increases cardiac function. We investigated the functional consequences of genetic β(1)-AR knockdown in three-dimensional engineered heart tissue (EHT). For β(1)-AR knockdown, short interfering RNA (siRNA) sequences targeting specifically the β(1)-AR (shB1) and a scrambled control (shCTR) were subcloned into a recombina...