road traffic injuries as a man-made calamity impose great burden on poor people and needs to be addressed through social justice and end of poverty. pointing out that around 186,300 children under the age of 18 are killed every year, and much more are injured, urgent need to work on road safety measures will be revealed. although preventing road traffic crashes from occurring should be the main...

Purification of cyclic 3’,5’-nucleotide phosphodiesterase of bovine brain cerebrum resulted in partial loss of activity, due to dissociation of an activator (or cofactor) from the enzyme. A systematic study showed that as purification proceeded, the activator was removed from phosphodiesterase in a stepwise fashion. Fractions representing phosphodiesterase at different stages of purification co...

BACKGROUND We investigate in this feasibility study whether specific lip movements increase prenatally when hearing a particular sound. We hypothesised that fetuses would produce more mouth movements resembling those required to make the sound stimulus they heard (i.e. mouth stretch) compared with a no-sound control group who heard no specific auditory stimuli. Secondly, we predicted that fetus...

INTRODUCTION Patients with COPD commonly exhibit pursed-lip breathing during exercise, a strategy that, by increasing intrinsic positive end-expiratory pressure, may optimise lung mechanics and exercise tolerance. A similar role for laryngeal narrowing in modulating exercise airways resistance and the respiratory cycle volume-time course is postulated, yet remains unstudied in COPD. The aim of ...

BACKGROUND : Previous studies have provided theoretical and empirical evidence that environmental forces influence hospital strategy. PURPOSES : Rooted in resource dependence theory and the information uncertainty perspective, this study examined the relationship between environmental market characteristics and hospitals' selection of a health information technology (HIT) management strategy....

An adenosine triphosphatase has been purified approximately B-fold from sarcoplasmic reticulum through the use of deoxycholate and salt fractionation. Gel electrophoretic profiles indicate that the preparation consists largely of one protein component. Protein purification and the increase in ATPase activity appear to be commensurate. The enzyme, which is soluble by virtue of bound detergent, b...

Mouthguards are considered by most authorities to be an essential part of equipment for players participating in body-contact sports. Mouthguards provide excellent dental protection but not all players use them, complaining of breathing difficulties and problems with speaking. Although information exists concerning dental trauma and mouth protector use, there are no reported data that quantify ...

Systemic sclerosis (scleroderma) is a rare fetal autoimmune disease of connective tissue leading to skin fibrosis as well as internal organ involvement (1). An annual incidence rate of 2-20 and prevalence rate of 100-300 per million population have been estimated for scleroderma with a mean survival of 12 yr from diagnosis (2-4). Moreover, there is a considerable preponderance of female gender ...

Physiotherapy ought to be offered to patients with a range of medical metabolism conditions with the aim of dyspnoea management and symptom management, quality and performance improvement or maintenance, and airway clearance and cough sweetening or support. respiratory exercises is employed as strategy in respiratory organ enlargement medical care, cartilaginous tube hygiene medical care and pt...