In a meta-analysis of longitudinal analyses the theory planned behaviour, we tested series extended or auxiliary theory-consistent hypotheses: construct stability, predictions within and between occasions, consistency over time stationarity in effects reciprocal among constructs. We also moderators on effects: measurement lag, health behaviour type (protection, risk) specific behaviours (alcoho...

The effect of short-term culture on the type and frequency of chromosomal aberrations found in bone marrow cells from patients with hematologic disease was evaluated. The classic direct method (1 -2 hr incubation) was compared with methods involving culture for 1 -4 days with or without methotrexate. Data on 32 samples from 21 patients in whom an abnormal clone was found indicated that on 1 8 o...

We propose a method to plan the number of occasions of recapture experiments for population size estimation. We do so by fixing the smallest number of capture occasions so that the expected length of the profile confidence interval is less than or equal to a fixed threshold. In some cases, we solve the optimization problem in closed form. For more complex models we use numerical optimization. W...

Methoxyflurane, administered from a Cardiff Penthrane inhaler was used as an analgesic agent for burns dressings and other painful ward procedures in a series of 36 children, aged 4 months to 13 years, on 94 occasions. No other intraoperative analgesics were required and preoperative sedation was used only six times in four patients. Preoperative starvation was unnecessary and no side effects w...

We performed pulsed-field gel electrophoresis on Escherichia coli O157 isolates (n = 318) from 199 healthy animals in a longitudinal study carried out on nine farms. Investigation of the restriction types proved that at the farm level, the same clones can be detected on sampling occasions separated by as much as 17 months. The cohort animals were repeatedly sampled, and for some of these, the s...

A healthy woman developed neurological symptoms after two consecutive Caesarean sections under combined spinal and epidural anaesthesia. Amethocaine was used for spinal anaesthesia and mepivacaine for epidural anaesthesia on both occasions, and a combination of fentanyl and bupivacaine was continuously infused for pain relief after the second. Her symptoms on both occasions were similar, includ...

objectives : the study was meant to measure the effects, of ramadan fasting on students at the school of nursing, midwifery and paramedics at rafsanjan medical college. method: the subjects comprised 67 randomly selected (n=67) from various fields of study who managed to fast at least 21 days, during the holy month of ramadan. the research instruments consisted of a demographic questionnaire an...