Methods Prospective and observational study.We included patients older than 18 years old, admitted to ICU and undergoing mechanical ventilation, who have been presented an acute failure of unless two organs. At admission, and on day 3 and 7, we determined: -Immunophenotypic lymphocyte subpopulations (ILS) (T, B and NK), concentration of immunoglobulins in serum, and expression of HLA-DR on mono...

Araştırmanın amacı, sedanter bireylerin kinezyofobi düzeylerini çeşitli değişkenler açısından incelemektir. Araştırma tarama modelinde yapılmıştır. Araştırmaya, 17-60 yaş aralığında bölgelerinde uzun süreli ağrıları bulunan 114 gönüllü katılmıştır. Veri toplamak amacıyla, Tampa Kinezyofobi Ölçeği kullanılmıştır. Veriler normal dağılım göstermediği için, iki değişken arasındaki analizlerde Mann ...

INTRODUCTION The aim of the present study was to investigate and compare the apical sealing ability of Resilon/Epiphany-filled root canals with those that were obturated with gutta-percha/AH-Plus endodontic sealer. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 60 extracted human single-rooted teeth were selected; 25 teeth for each test group and five for each control group. After conducting conventional e...

Materials and methods: Between April 2000 and December 2012, we retrospectively investigated data from patients who were diagnosed with organic ED and performed penile prosthesis implantation (PPI). Of the 239 patients, 235 patients were included in the study. Four patients who were operated on for transsexuality were excluded from the study. All patients were divided into two groups; group 1 i...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to determine minimal apical enlargement for irrigant penetration into apical third of root canal system using scanning electron microscope (SEM). MATERIALS AND METHODS Distobuccal canals of 40 freshly extracted human maxillary first molar teeth were instrumented using crown-down technique. The teeth were divided into four test groups according to size of t...

Let G and H be graphs, with |G| ≤ |H|. Consider a one-to-one map f:G→H, and define |f| = min{distH(f(x),f(y)): xy E(G)}. Now let the separation of G in H be defined by sep(G,H) = max{|f|: all one-to-one maps f:G→H}. We survey some results of the past several years on this parameter, in particular using Alon and Milman's results on the connection between the second largest eigenvalue of a graph ...

We show the combinatorics behind the Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney two-sample test. This yields new combinatorial proofs of recurrences for its null distribution given recently by Brus and Chang, as well as new recurrences. It is shown how to convert these recurrences into generating functions. These generating functions are used to obtain closed expressions for the null distribution when one of the sa...