OBJECTIVE To determine the relationship between pacifier use and the duration of exclusive breast-feeding in the first six months of age, among poor children with unfavourable birth weight, from an underdeveloped region in Brazil. METHOD Prospective cohort study with infants followed from birth to 6 months of age. Healthy children born with unfavourable birth weight (<3,000), being exclusivel...

Consider a seller that had a single good, such as an slightly antiquated smartphone. This is the setup in a typical eBay auction, for example. There is some number n of (strategic!) bidders who are potentially interested in buying the item. We want to reason about bidder behavior in various auction formats. To do this, we need a model of what a bidder wants. The first key assumption is that eac...

Twenty-nine consecutive patients with onychogryphotic toenails in whom conservative treatment had failed, were entered into the study over a one year period and followed-up prospectively for a further year. All patients were treated by simple nail avulsion. The incidence of recurrence was 27 out of 29 patients (93%); only five of these were symptomatic (17%). Only two patients required further ...

Background The purpose of this study was validation of the Persian translation of the Swiss Spinal Stenosis Questionnaire in order to be used by Iranian researchers. Methods A total of 104 patients with spinal stenosis diagnosis, who were candidates for operative treatment were entered into the study. The patients completed the translated questionnaire in the 1st and the 7th days of admission...

In this study, the laccase production ability of newly isolated Trametes versicolor strain was investigated in three different fermentation processes. all processes, fungus able to produce enzyme. During solid-state process 13.21 U/mL activity detected on 20th day 10 mM copper-containing medium, while value reached 27.30 medium containing 0.5 ABTS+10 copper. liquid batch process, significantly ...

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If, in some cataclysm, all of scientific knowledge were to be destroyed, and only one sentence passed on to the next generations of creatures, what statement would contain the most information in the fewest words? I believe it is the atomic hypothesis (or the atomic fact, or whatever you wish to call it) that all things are made of atoms—little particles that move around in perpetual motion, at...

Objective(s) Urtica dioica L. has been known as a medicinal plant in the world. This study was conducted to determine the effects of the hydroalcoholic extract of Urtica dioica leaves on seminiferous tubules of diabetic rats. Materials and Methods Animals were allocated to control, diabetic and protective groups. Treated animals received extract of U. dioica (100 mg/ kg/ day) IP for the firs...