backgrounds: g6pd deficiency is the most common enzymopathy of red blood cells. the clinical symptoms of favism are jaundice, hematuria and haemolytic anaemia that seem to affect liver and kidney in long term. thus we evaluate kidney and liver function of favism patients in an endemic area of the disease with a high rate of fava beans cultivation. methods: this study was performed on favism pat...

In this paper we develop new system-equation tests for threshold cointegration based on a threshold vector autoregressive distributed lag (ADL) model. The proposed tests do not require weak exogeneity, and can be applied when cointegrating vector is unknown. The asymptotic null distributions of the tests are expressed as functionals of two-parameter Brownian motion. The distributions are free o...

Studies using tests such as digit span and nonword repetition have implicated short-term memory across a range of developmental domains. Such tests ostensibly assess specialized processes for the short-term manipulation and maintenance of information that are often argued to enable long-term learning. However, there is considerable evidence for an influence of long-term linguistic learning on p...

Repeated retrieval enhances long-term retention, and spaced repetition also enhances retention. A question with practical and theoretical significance is whether there are particular schedules of spaced retrieval (e.g., gradually expanding the interval between tests) that produce the best learning. In the present experiment, subjects studied and were tested on items until they could recall each...

The advent of the industrial revolution has seen a significant increase in the number of new chemical entities (NCEs) released in the environment. It becomes imperative to check the toxic potential of NCEs to nontarget species before they are released for commercial purposes because some of these may exert genotoxicity, mutagenicity, or carcinogenicity. Exposure to such compounds produces chemi...

The use of Carbon Fiber–Reinforced Polymers (CFRP) has increased in number of industries i.e. aerospace, automobiles, marine, medical and sports due to their light weight and high strength-stiffness. However, their properties are greatly affected under extreme e environmental conditions i.e. high temperatures and moisture uptake. The paper reports an experimental study to determine the response...

Autonomic nervous tests and heart rate variability (HRV) have been used to assess cardiac autonomic function and to evaluate long-term prognosis. The aim of this study was to evaluate the short- and long-term reproducibility of HRV parameters and autonomic nervous tests according to body position (supine or standing). The study group consisted of 26 healthy subjects. Autonomic nervous tests and...