1 In multiple testing, weighted procedures are used for various reasons; for instance, (1) to increase power, (2) to incorporate previous knowledge about individual hypotheses, (3) to represent difference in importance (some hypotheses may be more important than others) or (4) to incorporate other measures of loss. The purpose of this question is to examine weighted procedures. Here, we assume ...

carpal tunnel syndrome (cts) is a neuropathy due to the compression of the median nerve. it is shown that gabapentin in high doses is effective in treatment of cts patients. in this study we evaluated the efficacy of low doses of gabapentin in treatment of cts patients. ninety patients with cts were randomly assigned to groups a, b and c. gabapentin was administered to group a with dose of 100 ...

46 women with trichomoniasis and gonorrhea were treated with nimorazole (300 mg twice daily for 7 days) and a trichomonal cure rate of 90-2 per cent. was noted. In addition, 53 of 112 patients with trichomoniasis but without gonorrhoea, were treated with metronidazole (200 mg three times a day for 7 days) and 59 with nimorazole (300 mg twice daily for 7 days) in a randomized trial. The cure rat...

BACKGROUND For women, delayed conception and recurrent pregnant loss are just a few of the health implications associated with a caffeine-rich diet (Mol. Hum. Reprod., 11, 357). At present there is a deficit of prospective research measuring current habitual intakes of caffeine in UK women. The purpose of the current study was to collect up-to-date baseline data to assess caffeine intake and kn...

BACKGROUND Depression can be treated in an outpatient, inpatient or day hospital setting. In the German health care system, episodes of inpatient or day hospital treatment are common, but there is a lack of studies evaluating effectiveness in routine care and subgroups of patients with a good or insufficient treatment response. Our study aims at identifying prognostic and prescriptive outcome p...

Host lipids have been implicated in the pathogenesis of Toxoplasma gondii infection. To determine if Toxoplasma infection influences the lipid status in the normal host, we assessed serum lipids of Swiss-Webster mice during infection with the BGD-1 strain (type-2) at a series of time points. Mice were bled at days zero and 42 post-infection, and subgroups were additionally bled on alternating w...

To study the effect of different levels of peppermint (Mentha piperita) plant powder, on immune system of broilers under heat stress condition, 192 one-day old chickens (Ross, 308) were randomly allocated to 4 dietary treatments with 4 replicates of 12 chicks each, using a completely randomized design. The four groups were characterized by a basal diet (control), basal diet supplemented with 1 ...

OBJECTIVES Epidemiological studies have shown a relationship between long-term use of proton pump inhibitors and bone metabolism. However, this relationship has not yet become established. The aim of the present study was to analyze the mechanical properties and bone mineral density (BMD) of rats that were subjected to long-term omeprazole use. METHODS Fifty Wistar rats weighing between 200 a...

The purpose of this paper is to generate a wider acceptance of emergy analysis a decisionmaking tool in both the public and private sectors. The key to increasing the application of this powerful tool is to link it to productivity. Much of business and public policy decision-making is based on productivity and related efficiency measures. The productivity measures in common use today are narrow...

THE place for thyroidectomy in the treatment of disease of the thyroid gland is now well established. It has for long been practised by surgeons to relieve the pressure symptoms caused by simple non-toxic goitres, but it was not until the end of the first decade of this century that its use in the treatment of thyrotoxicosis was first described. Mayo, in 1907, reported on 110 operations for thy...