BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE We sought to determine the relations between infarct subtype and white matter hyperintensities (WMHIs) on MRI. MATERIALS AND METHODS We studied 395 ischemic stroke patients with 1. 0-T MRI. The number of lacunar, border-zone, and cortical infarcts was registered. WMHIs were analyzed in 6 areas. Univariate and multivariate statistical analyses were used to find the risk ...

Disease control programs aim to constrain and reduce the spread of infection. Human disease interventions such as wildlife vaccination play a major role in determining the limits of a pathogen's spatial distribution. Over the past few decades, a raccoon-specific variant of rabies virus (RRV) has invaded large areas of eastern North America. Although expansion into Canada has been largely preven...

BACKGROUND Tinea capitis affects mainly children. The frequency and causative organism vary from region to region. OBJECTIVES To provide epidemiological and mycological data on tinea capitis collected in urban and rural areas of the Dominican Republic. METHODS Samples were obtained from 118 patients with tinea capitis. Sixty-three of these were from 2 schools in urban areas of the Dominican...

this paper discusses whether european institutions should devote so much attention and funding to cross-border healthcare or they should instead prioritise guaranteeing universal health coverage (uhc), inequalities and tackling the effects of austerity measures. the paper argues through providing the evidence in both areas of research, that the priority at european level from a public health an...

The distance between perfusion and anoxia was measured on the border of an experimental ischemic area in the rabbit heart. Reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NADH) fluorescence photography was used to detect myocardial anoxia. Fluorescein angiography marked areas of myocardial perfusion. The hearts were isolated, perfused with a hemoglobin-free solution and performed no external work. I...

en 1994, 125 carcases of camel (100 from isfahan and 25 from yazd) in slaughter - houses were studied for parasitic infections. seventy percent of the camels were infected with hydatid cyst and half of the males (50%) had testicular filaria identified as dipetalonema evansi. all the infected male camels except 3, demonstrated sheathed rnicrofilariae in their peripheral blood smears. although so...

UV/ozone oxidation was combined with a photomasking technique to produce adjacent regions of different chemistry on polystyrene (PS) surfaces. The surface chemistry and topography were studied using AFM, XPS and contact angle measurements. The physicochemical patterns were visualised by the condensation of water vapour upon the surfaces and by the differential attachment of Chinese hamster ovar...

Forest degradation in protected areas has been monitored around the world with remote sensing data, but degradation processes undetectable by widely used satellite sensors have been largely overlooked. Increased human pressures and socioeconomic development make forest protection more challenging, particularly for forest ecosystems that lie across national borders because of the differences in ...