215 preschool siblings of children presenting with squint/amblyopia were screened by refraction after cycloplegia. The presence of +2.00 or more D of spherical hypermetropia in both eyes, or +1.00 or more D sphere or cylinder of anisometropia was significantly associated (P=0.0779%) with that child being identified 2+ years later as having either squint or amblyopia or both. Astigmatism of +1.5...

BACKGROUND We sought to describe the course and predictors of quality of life (QOL) after lacunar stroke. We hypothesized that there is a decline in QOL after recovery from lacunar stroke. METHODS The Secondary Prevention of Small Subcortical Strokes is a clinical trial in lacunar stroke patients with annual assessments of QOL with the stroke-specific QOL score. The overall score was used and...

In this paper we present a n O(k 1 1=d ) time algorithm for solving the k-center problem in R d , under L 1 and L 2 metrics. The algorithm extends to other metrics, and can be used to solve the discrete k-center problem, as well. We also describe a simple (1 + )-approximation algorithm for the k-center problem, with running time O(n log k) + (k= ) O(k 1 1=d ) . Finally, we present a n O(k 1 1=d...

Methotrexate (MTX) is one of the most active and widely used agents for the treatment of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). To elucidate the mechanism for higher accumulation of MTX polyglutamates (MTX-PG) in hyperdiploid ALL and lower accumulation in T-lineage ALL, expression of the reduced folate carrier (RFC) was assessed by reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction in ALL blasts isol...

Variable order affine projection algorithms have been recently presented to be used when not only the convergence speed of the algorithm has to be adjusted but also its computational cost and its final residual error. These kind of affine projection (AP) algorithms improve the standard AP algorithm performance at steady state by reducing the residual mean square error. Furthermore these algorit...

Correlated responses in reproductive and carcass traits were studied in 181 litters and 218 pigs from a line of Landrace pigs selected six generations for increased weight at 70 d of age and a contemporaneous, randomly selected control line. The reproductive and maternal traits studied included litter sizes born, born alive, and alive at 21 d and litter weight at birth and at 21 d. Carcass trai...

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 Amaç: İnguinal herni onarımlarında ideal postoperatif analjezi yöntemi halen tartışma konusudur. Bu çalışmada, kasık fıtığı preemptif olarak uyguladığımız farklı analjezik yöntemlerin etkinliğini karşılaştırmayı amaçladık.
 Yöntemler: çalışma prospektif dizayn edildi. Çalışmaya spinal anestezi eşliğinde elektif inguinal onarımı yapılan 18-75 yaş arası hastalar alındı. 120 hasta ce...