BACKGROUND Alcohol and illicit drug use is more prevalent among men who have sex with men (MSM) compared to the general population and has been linked to HIV transmission in this population. Research assessing individual patterns of substance use often utilizes questionnaires or interviews that rely on retrospective self-reported information, which can be subject to recall bias. Ecological mome...

We prove the nontriviality at all levels of the filtration of the classical topological knot concordance group C · · · ⊆ Fn ⊆ · · · ⊆ F1 ⊆ F0 ⊆ C. defined in [COT]. This filtration is significant because not only is it strongly connected to Whitney tower constructions of Casson and Freedman, but all previously-known concordance invariants are related to the first few terms in the filtration. In...

In the article, theoretical principles and practical realization for the compilation of the concordance to"Perekhresni stezhky"("The Cross-Paths"), a novel by Ivan Franko, are described. Two forms for the context presentation are proposed. The electronic version of this lexicographic work is available online.

Information on dietary supplements, medications, and other xenobiotics in epidemiologic surveys is usually obtained from questionnaires and is subject to recall and reporting biases. The authors used metabolite data obtained from hydrogen-1 (or proton) nuclear magnetic resonance ((1)H NMR) analysis of human urine specimens from the International Study of Macro-/Micro-Nutrients and Blood Pressur...

This article describes patterns of concordance/discordance between self-reported abilities ("can do") and habits ("does do") and observed task performance of daily living tasks in three groups of older adults: late life depression with mild cognitive impairment (n=53), late life depression without mild cognitive impairment (n=64), and non-depressed, cognitively normal controls (n=31). Self-repo...

Abstract We prove that an n-component fibered link L in S3 is strongly quasi-positive if and only $\tau(L)=g_3(L)+n-1$, where $g_3(L)$ denotes the Seifert genus τ Ozsváth–Szabó concordance invariant. also provide a table which contains list of some prime links with at most 9 crossings; we explicitly determine ones are their maximal self-linking number.

BACKGROUND/AIMS Self sampling is considered an adjuvant tool to facilitate the participation of women in cervical cancer screening programmes. This study aimed to evaluate whether cervicovaginal lavage could be an alternative for the cervical smear in cytology and human papillomavirus (HPV) testing and to assess the acceptance of the self sampling device by women. METHODS Fifty six women with...

A user-friendly self-sampling method for collecting representative cervical cell material would lower the threshold for women to respond to the invitation for cervical screening. In the present article, we introduce such a device; we have evaluated its sensitivity and specificity to detect high-grade cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN), via high-risk human papillomavirus (hrHPV) detection ...