Thoracoscopic talcage (TT) is a safe and effective prophylactic treatment for patients suffering from recurrent primary spontaneous pneumothorax (PSP). Empirically, TT is considered equally effective in the treatment of persistent secondary spontaneous pneumothorax (SSP), although this has not yet been proved. In this study, the efficacy and safety of TT was prospectively evaluated in 28 patien...

BACKGROUND Personality is considered as an important aspect that can affect symptoms and social function in persons with schizophrenia. The personality questionnaire Swedish universities Scales of Personality (SSP) has not previously been used in psychotic disorder. AIMS To investigate if SSP has a similar internal consistency and factor structure in a psychosis population as among healthy co...

Strong stability preserving (SSP) time discretizations were developed for use with the spatial discretization of partial differential equations that are strongly stable under forward Euler time integration. SSP methods preserve convex boundedness and contractivity properties satisfied by forward Euler, under a modified time-step restriction. We turn to implicit Runge–Kutta methods to alleviate ...

Software testing requires executing software under test with the intention of finding defects as much as possible. Test case generation remains the most dominant research in software testing. The technique used in generating test cases may lead to effective and efficient software testing process. Many techniques have been proposed to generate test cases. One of them is State Sensitivity Partiti...

BACKGROUND Personality is considered as an important aspect in persons with psychotic disorders. Several studies have investigated personality in schizophrenia. However, no study has investigated stability of personality traits exceeding three years in patients with schizophrenia. This study aims to investigate the stability of personality traits over a five-year period among patients with schi...

There is considerable evidence that schizophrenia spectrum personality (SSP) disorders mark genetic risk for schizophrenia. Use of the spectrum phenotype in genetic and neurophysiological studies may prove informative. However, the degree to which the current diagnostic criteria correspond with genetic risk is unclear. This can be assessed by observing how measures of liability among SSP subjec...

Objective: To evaluate the effects of tooth displacement and vibration on frictional force and stickslip phenomenon (SSP) when conventional brackets were used with a levelling/alignment wire. Materials and Methods: The samples consisted of six groups (n = 10 per group) with combinations of tooth displacement (2 mm lingual displacement [LD], 2 mm gingival displacement [GD], and no displacement [...

The present study aimed to explore the factors that affect polymerase chain reaction using sequence-specific primers (PCR-SSP) and to establish an optimized PCR-SSP method for detecting multiple gene polymorphisms simultaneously. The amplification system parameters, including the concentrations of Mg2+, dNTPs, pfu Taq, primers and control primers, were optimized using the designed PCR-SSP react...

AIM OF THE STUDY Cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) expression has been observed in a substantial percentage of classical adenomas of the large bowel. The aim of the study was to assess and compare the expression of COX-2 in serrated polyps of the colon. MATERIAL AND METHODS One hundred and nineteen serrated polyps were analyzed. There were 83 hyperplastic polyps (HP), 19 sessile serrated polyps (SSP) ...

The envelope glycoprotein of the Junı́n arenavirus (GP-C) mediates entry into target cells through a pHdependent membrane fusion mechanism. Unlike other class I viral fusion proteins, the mature GP-C complex retains a cleaved, 58-amino-acid signal peptide (SSP) as an essential subunit, required both for trafficking of GP-C to the cell surface and for the activation of membrane fusion. SSP has be...