BACKGROUND Gap junctional intercellular communication decreases with HSV-2 infection. To determine the importance of functional gap junctions for infectivity, we compared HSV-2 growth in communication-competent and -deficient cell lines. METHODS HSV-2 infectivity was tested in five cell lines: WB rat liver epithelial cells (communication-competent), WB-aB1 (communication-deficient), WB-a/32-1...

PURPOSE To describe the objective and subjective match load (ML) of wheelchair basketball (WB) and determine the relationship between session heart-rate (HR) -based ML and rating-of-perceived-exertion (RPE) -based ML methods. METHODS HR-based measurements of ML included Edwards ML and Stagno training impulses (TRIMPMOD), while RPE-based ML measurements included respiratory (sRPEres) and muscu...

The pervasiveness of explicit and implicit weight bias (WB) defined as negative stereotypes and prejudice regarding one's weight has been observed among individuals of all weight categories. As a source of WB, health messages have been discussed due to reinforcing stigmatizing notions. The present study sought to investigate whether health messages (i.e., eat healthy, become physically active) ...

BACKGROUND The DeVilbiss 40 glass hand held nebulisers have been widely used for airways responsiveness testing in epidemiological surveys of asthma. These nebulisers have been superseded in some recent studies by the DeVilbiss 45 plastic hand held nebulisers with the assumption that they are interchangeable. This study compared the aerosol outputs of the DeVilbiss 40 and DeVilbiss 45 nebuliser...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to examine the feasibility of a fast protocol for whole-body diffusion-weighted imaging (WB-DWI) using a slice-accelerated echo-planar sequence, which, when using comparable image acquisition parameters, noticeably reduces measurement time compared to a conventional WB-DWI protocol. MATERIALS AND METHODS A single-shot echo-planar imaging sequence capable ...

Proof of Lemma 1. Consider a low-performance bidder with unit valuation v who bids b and a high-performance bidder with unit valuation wv who bids wb. Both bidders get a score wb, and their payoff functions are U (y L , v, b) = y L (v − b)Pr(wb is the highest score) (W1) and U (y H , wv, wb) = y H (wv − wb)Pr(wb is the highest score). (W2) It is easy to establish that U (y H , wv, wb) = wy H y ...

Background India’s economic growth rate in recent years has been fairly impressive. But, it has been consistently failing to make considerable progress in achieving health related Millennium Development Goal (MDG) targets. Lack of coherence between provisions and utilization becomes the face of the problem. Inadequacies in outreach, access and affordability coupled with escalating healthcare co...

UNLABELLED Various studies have compared the detection of functioning residual thyroid tissue after thyroidectomy using radioiodine whole-body (WB) imaging following preparation of patients with injections of recombinant human thyroid-stimulating hormone (rhTSH) and thyroid hormone withdrawal (THW). However, metastases may have radiopharmacokinetics different from normal thyroid tissue. The obj...