In a 1 year period (1993) 332 facial fractures were treated in Cork Regional Hospital. Of these 110 (33%) were sports related. Males accounted for 94.5% of patients and 77% of patients were aged below 30 years. Nasal fractures were the most common fractures seen (56%). Almost half (49%) of sports related facial fractures occurred while playing Gaelic games. The incidence of hurling fractures ha...

A randomized study of 110 patients undergoing their first diagnostic lumbar puncture was performed to compare the effect of immediate mobilization with 4 hours bed rest on the incidence of post lumbar puncture headache. There was no difference between the mobile (n = 54) and bed rest (n = 56) groups in the incidence of post lumbar puncture headache (32% versus 31%, respectively). We conclude th...

Under 5 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 4.2 5 to 9 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 6.5 10 to 14 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 8.0 15 to 19 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 9.4 20 to 24 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...

We report a collinear output and tunable dual-wavelength CW Ti:sapphire laser with a simple cavity configuration. The wavelength splitting range is easily tuned from 10 nm to 110 nm, which provides 56 THz bandwidth for terahertz generation. The total output power of two colors with the spatial mode of TEM(00) is between 700 mW and 300 mW, for small and large wavelength splittings, respectively,...

Under 5 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 5.3 5 to 9 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 6.1 10 to 14 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 7.1 15 to 19 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 5.5 20 to 24 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

The components of chloroplast translation are similar to those of prokaryotic translation but contain some additional unique features. Proteomic analysis of the Chlamydomonas reinhardtii chloroplast ribosome identified an S1-like protein, plastid-specific ribosomal protein-7 (PSRP-7), as a stoichiometric component of the 30S subunit. Here, we report that PSRP-7 is part of a polyprotein that con...

oil from the eucalyptus tree ( eucalyptus camaldulensis l.) is used today in many over the counter cough and cold products, to relieve congestion. eucalyptus oil is also used in creams and ointments to relieve muscle and joint pain, and in some mouthwashes. in this study eucalyptus camaldulensis leaves extracted with water and ethanol 96°and the antimicrobial effects of extracts were evaluated ...

The purpose of the present study was to determine the effect of protein kinase A and protein kinase C activation on the membrane expression of NaPi-4, the type II sodium-phosphate cotransporter in OK cells. NaPi-4 expression was measured using polyclonal antisera produced in rabbits against a peptide identical to the carboxy-terminal 12-amino acid sequence of NaPi-4. The antisera identified an ...

We demonstrate the enhancement of fluorescence emitted from dye molecules coupled with two surface plasmons, i.e., silver nanoparticles (AgNPs)-induced localized plasmons (LSP) and thin (Ag) film supported plasmons. Excitation light is illuminated to a SiO2 layer that contains both rhodamine 110 AgNPs. AgNPs enhances excitation rates in their close proximity due LSP-induced local electromagneti...