results our study showed that the sensitivity and specificity of taqman real time pcr was 96% and 95% respectively. these values were 89% and 90, 38% and 100%, 6% and 100% for pcr, culture and microscopy, respectively. conclusions our study showed that sensitivity of taqman real time pcr was higher that pcr, culture and microscopy but specificity of culture and microscopy was more than pcr and ...

This article presents MANULEX, a Web-accessible database that provides grade-level word frequency lists of nonlemmatized and lemmatized words (48,886 and 23,812 entries, respectively) computed from the 1.9 million words taken from 54 French elementary school readers. Word frequencies are provided for four levels: first grade (G1), second grade (G2), third to fifth grades (G3-5), and all grades ...

Objective. Short-term nasal forms following primary lip repair were compared between presurgical nasal molding and control groups. Aim. To compare nasal symmetry between patients that had nasal molding and lip repair with those that had only lip repair. Design. Retrospective case-control study Patients. Complete unilateral CL+P patients had basilar and frontal photographs at two time points: (1...

NASA Tech Briefs, September 2012 as mechanical noise to the soles of the feet, or when applied as electrical noise at the knee and to the back muscles. SR using imperceptible stochastic electrical stimulation of the vestibular system (stochastic vestibular stimulation, SVS) applied to normal subjects has shown to improve the degree of association between the weak input periodic signals introduc...

cantilever bone graft, nasal reconstruction, saddle nasal deformity. Abstract The concept of the cantilever bone graft, popularised by Millard (1966), and its subsequent modification by Chait et al. (1980), led to the idea of the costochondral cantilever graft for nasal dorsum augmentation. Over 150 costochondral nasal grafts have been performed at the Australian Craniofacial Unit (ACFU) over t...

This paper addresses a very European issue, the consolidation of securities trading and settlement infrastructures. In a two-country model, we analyze welfare implications of di¤erent types of consolidation. We …nd that in our model, full technical horizontal integration of settlement systems is better than vertical integration of exchanges and settlement systems, but vertical integration is st...

Background : Cleft lip and cleft palate are the most common congenital craniofacial anomalies treated by plastic surgeons. The incidence of is higher at lower socioeconomic levels. Hospital Social Responsibility (HSR) in Gatot Soebroto Central Army provides free surgeries to those who need it most. HSR services still be evaluated, get an overview epidemiologic profile patients, improve itself. ...

BACKGROUND Cleft lip repair with the Millard technique has undergone many modifications throughout the years, yet analysis of the successes of these various methods is still lacking. OBJECTIVES To make a quantitative evaluation of the outcomes obtained after unilateral cleft lip surgical repair using the Kernahan and Bauer technique with primary rhinoplasty. METHODS Five anatomical paramete...