BACKGROUND The Haller Index (HI) has become standard for determining the severity of pectus excavatum. We compared patterns of cardiopulmonary dysfunction and their relationship with HI in patients with pectus excavatum. METHODS We performed cardiopulmonary exercise testing and chest computed tomography scans on 90 patients with pectus excavatum deformities at a regional pediatric hospital. ...

AIMS The aims of the study were to describe the epidemiology of home injuries (HI) among Italian students' mothers and to identify the possible predictors of having HI. METHODS An anonymous questionnaire was used in several Italian schools. In order to identify predictors of having HI, a multivariate analysis was performed. RESULTS In our sample (3,610 women), the prevalence of HI was 18%; ...

BACKGROUND Congenital hyperinsulinism (HI) can have monogenic or syndromic causes. Although HI has long been recognised to be common in children with Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome (BWS), the underlying mechanism is not known. METHODS We characterised the clinical features of children with both HI and BWS/11p overgrowth spectrum, evaluated the contribution of KATP channel mutations to the molecu...

Limited improvement in long term survival of lung cancer patients has been achieved by conventional chemotherapy or targeted therapy. To explore the potentials of tumor initiating cells (TIC)-directed therapy, it is essential to identify the cell targets and understand their maintenance mechanisms. We have analyzed the performance of ALDH/CD44 co-expression as TIC markers and treatment targets ...

Hemodynamic instability (HI) may impair the washout of debris during distal intracranial circulation and increase the risk of clinically evident cerebral ischemia. However, the interaction between HI and new ischemic brain lesions detected on diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) has not been examined. This study evaluated whether HI was significantly associated with the incidence of new ischemic br...

An extended HI cloud (VIRGOHI 21) with an HI mass of ∼ 10 M⊙ and no apparent optical counterpart was recently discovered in the Virgo cluster. In order to understand the origin of physical properties of apparently isolated HI clouds like the VIRGOHI21, we numerically investigate physical properties of tidal HI debris that were formed by galaxy-galaxy interaction in clusters of galaxies. Our hyd...

     It has been reported that in different regions and sowing dates, the response of crops to past climate change is not the same, due to different rates of decrease/increase in each climatic variable at different regions and months of year. This study was aimed to assess the effect of individual versus simultaneous changes in solar radiation (S), precipitation (P) and temperature (T) on rainf...

بناهایفرم مفهومی پویا و لغزان است که از هریک گفتمان‌های مختلف معماری تلقی متفاوتی آن به‌دست آمده است. در این مقاله با هدف بازاندیشی مفهومِ فرم گفتمان معاصر، به تبیین زیربنای نظری اقتضائات قابلیت پرداخته شده بدین منظور نخست برخی نیروهای بنیادین مؤثر بر تحول مفهوم دوران معاصر شناسایی شده‌اند؛ سپس به‌مثابة تلقی‌ای پاسخ‌گویی ذکرشده را ممکن می‌کند، معرفی گردیده است؛ ادامه حضور طریق بسط نوشتار مسیر مع...

Hypoxia-ischemia (HI) is associated with premature birth, and injury during term birth. Many infants experiencing HI later show disruptions of language, with research suggesting that rapid auditory processing (RAP) deficits (i.e., impairment in the ability to discriminate rapidly changing acoustic signals), play a causal role in language problems. We recently bridged these lines of research by ...