BACKGROUND Adolescent self-harm (SH) is a major public health concern, associated with poor outcomes. The use of ineffective coping is often referred to in explanatory models of adolescent SH. AIMS To assess the relationship between SH and coping strategies in a large sample of school-aged adolescents. METHOD A sample of public school students (n = 1,713), aged between 12 and 20 years, were...

Subcortical hyperintensities (SH) on neuroimaging are a prominent feature of vascular dementia (VaD) and SH severity correlates with cognitive impairment in this population. Previous studies demonstrated that SH burden accounts for a degree of the cognitive burden among VaD patients, although it remains unclear if individual factors such as cognitive reserve influence cognitive status in VaD. T...

Based on time series data of 500 hPa potential field from NCEP/NCAR (National Center for Environmental Forecast of American/National Center for Atmospheric Research), a novel consideration of empirical orthogonal function (EOF) time–space separation and dynamic system reconstruction for time series is introduced. This method consists of two parts: first, the dynamical model inversion and model ...

A large amount of evidence shows that the subjective evaluation of health is a predictor of survival in many different populations. Subjective health (SH) is measured using different types of measures such as a general evaluation of health or a comparative evaluation of health. The aim of this study was to compare the prediction of survival by two measures of SH (a general measure and an age-re...

BACKGROUND Sclerosing hemangioma (SH) of the lung is a kind of rare pulmonary tumor. Preoperative diagnosis of this tumor is difficult and it is now generally accepted that SH of the lung is benign lesions and surgical excision alone is curative. Herein, we present our experiences of treating 28 patients with SH. METHODS The medical records of 28 patients with SH from 1994 to 2010 at the Depa...

A new magnetic-bottle time-of-flight photoelectron spectroscopy (PES) apparatus is constructed in our laboratory. The PES spectra of iron sulfide, hydrosulfide, and mixed sulfide/hydrosulfide [FeSm(SH)n-; m, n = 0-3, 0 < (m + n) ≤ 3] cluster anions, obtained at 2.331 eV (532 nm) and 3.492 eV (355 nm) photon energies, are reported. The electronic structure and bonding properties of these cluster...

Ataxia-telangiectasia (A-T) is an autosomal recessive disorder characterized by cerebellar ataxia and oculocutaneous telangiectasias. The gene mutated in this disease, ATM (A-T, mutated), encodes a 370-kDa Ser/Thr protein kinase. ATM not only mediates cellular response to DNA damage but also acts as an activator of Akt in response to insulin. However, despite intensive studies, the mechanism...

AIMS Mast cells participate importantly in abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAAs) by releasing inflammatory cytokines to promote vascular cell protease expression and arterial wall remodelling. Mast cells accumulate in AAA lesions during disease progression, but the exact chemokines by which mast cells migrate to the site of vascular inflammation remain unknown. This study tested the hypothesis that...

Sinomenine hydrochloride (SH) is an ideal drug for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis. However, high plasma concentration of systemically administered SH can release histamine, which can cause rash and gastrointestinal side effects. Topical delivery can increase SH concentration in the synovial fluid without high plasma level, thus minimizing systemic side effects. However...

1. Recordings have been obtained from single sympathetic fibres to the left kidney in anaesthetized adult spontaneously hypertensive (SH) rats and Wistar-Kyoto normotensive (WK) rats. 2. Under control conditions SH rats had a mean sympathetic activity of 3.3 +/- SE 0.45 Hz and WK rats 1.6 +/- 0.23 Hz. During noradrenaline infusion single fibre discharge decreased gradually to low levels in both...