AIM To examine the association between childhood atopic dermatitis (AD) severity and family impact at baseline and after an intervention by a physician specialist, using validated measures of both severity and family impact. METHODS Cross sectional self administered survey of parent-caregivers of 49 randomly selected children with AD; 35 parents were available for follow up. Family impact was...

Improving the current Air Traffic Control (ATC) system with new technologies such as decision support systems (DSTs) is necessary to accommodate continued growth in air traffic. These new technologies will potentially move ATC Specialists (ATCSs) from tactical to more strategic control. How this change will affect ATCS situation awareness (SA) is unknown. To assess SA real-time on operational h...

OBJECTIVE Evaluate the effectiveness of two active interventions, aimed at secondary prevention of low back pain (LBP), in occupational health. METHODS We performed a survey of LBP (n=2480; response rate 71%) and randomized 143 employees (66% males, 45 years) with LBP over 34 mm on VAS into Rehabilitation (n=43), Exercise (n=43) or self-care (n=40) groups. Primary outcomes were LBP, physical ...

effects of sodium salt solutions on physicochemical and sensory characteristics of refrigerated persian sturgeon (acipenser persicus) fillets during 12 days of storage were investigated. fillets were dipped in solutions (2.5% w/v) of sodium acetate (sa), sodium lactate (sl), sodium citrate (sc) and distilled water (as control) for 10 minutes and then packaged. an assessment of tbars, ffa, ph, h...

evaluation of communication abilities in the elderly is crucial for activities which will be performed to improve their quality of life. a valid and reliable questionnaire is needed for assessing communication abilities. we aimed to translate and validate the speech, spatial, and qualities of hearing scale (ssq) in iran. the forward-backward procedure was applied to translate the questionnaire ...

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PURPOSE Women with breast cancer (BC) treated with aromatase inhibitors (AIs) may experience joint symptoms that can lead to discontinuation of effective therapy. We examined whether acupuncture improves AI-induced arthralgias in women with early-stage BC. METHODS We conducted a randomized, controlled, blinded study comparing true acupuncture (TA) versus sham acupuncture (SA) twice weekly for 6...

p16 is a key regulator of cellular senescence, yet the drivers of this stable state of proliferative arrest are not well understood. Here, we identify 22 senescence-associated microRNAs (SA-miRNAs) in normal human mammary epithelial cells. We show that SA-miRNAs-26b, 181a, 210 and 424 function in concert to directly repress expression of Polycomb group (PcG) proteins CBX7, embryonic ectoderm de...

Self adaptive systems must recon gure themselves at run time to compensate for changing environments objectives and system capabilities This paper discusses how the SA CIRCA architecture for intelligent autonomous systems can automatically synthesize customized control software on the y and how that synthesis process itself can be managed to conform to real time deadlines that may constrain the...

INTRODUCTION Patients with self-inflicted burns (SIB) are thought to have a longer length of stay compared to patients with accidental burns. However, other predictors for a longer length of stay are often not taken into account, e.g. percentage of the body surface area burned, age or comorbidities. Therefore, we wanted to study the outcome of patients with SIB at our burn center. METHODS A r...