BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Functional MR imaging (fMRI) is a promising but, in some aspects, still debated noninvasive tool for functional language mapping. We developed a clinical fMRI overt language design at the sentential level to optimize sensitivity for language-related areas of the brain. To evaluate applicability and sensitivity, we investigated a consecutive series of presurgical patients ...

OBJECTIVES To analyse the oral health status of children and adults in rural and urban areas of Burkina Faso; to provide epidemiological data for planning and evaluation of oral health care programmes. DESIGN Cross-sectional survey including different ethnic and socio-economic groups. SAMPLE AND METHODS Multistage cluster sampling of households in urban areas and random samples of participa...

A novel reactor design, coined a high density bioreactor (HDBR), is presented for the cultivation and study of high density microbial communities. Past studies have evaluated the performance of the reactor for the removal of COD(1) and nitrogen species(2-4) by heterotrophic and chemoautotrophic bacteria, respectively. The HDBR design eliminates the requirement for external flocculation/sediment...

Nun protein from coliphage HK022 binds to phage boxB RNA and functions, in contrast to phage lambda N protein, as a transcriptional terminator. The basic Nun-(10-44) peptide contains the boxB RNA binding arginine rich motif, ARM. The peptide binds boxB RNA and competes with the phage lambda ARM peptide N-(1-36) as indicated by nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy titrations. In two-dim...

Objective: To report an initial experience with multislice spiral computed tomography (MSCT) coronary imaging, as well as differences in diagnostic accuracy between 4 slice and 16 slice MSCT technology. Methods and results: 210 patients underwent MSCT coronary angiography (4 slices, n = 120; 16 slices, n = 90; suspicion of coronary artery disease, n = 158; suspicion of restenosis, n = 52). Reco...

OBJECTIVE To determine the effect of living with a depressed elderly individual on the mental health of the cohabitant carer. METHOD Case-control study comparing rates of psychiatric morbidity in cohabitants of depressed versus well elderly. SETTING Community sample. PARTICIPANTS 44 couples, one partner with AGECAT depression, and 44 couples, one partner diagnosed well by AGECAT. Cohabita...

One of the fundamental goals of environmental education (EE) is to equip students with the skills to make more thoughtful decisions about environmental issues. Many examples of environmental and science education curricula work to address this goal by providing students with up-to-date information about a myriad of environmental issues from a variety of scientific disciplines. As noted by previ...