Smith-Magenis syndrome (SMS) is a multiple congenital anomaly/mental retardation syndrome associated with behavioral abnormalities and sleep disturbance. Most patients have the same approximately 4 Mb interstitial genomic deletion within chromosome 17p11.2. To investigate the molecular bases of the SMS phenotype, we constructed BAC/PAC contigs covering the SMS common deletion interval and its s...

BACKGROUND Mobile phone technology is being used worldwide to improve follow-ups in health care. AIM Aim of the study is to evaluate whether the use of mobile technology will improve or not the follow-up of Indian patients from a community mental health center. MATERIALS AND METHODS Patients or caregivers having mobile phones and consenting for study were enrolled, and sociodemographic and ...

Despite speculation that peers' alcohol-related content on social media sites (SMS) may influence the alcohol use behaviors of SMS frequenting college students, this relationship has not been investigated longitudinally. The current prospective study assesses the relationship between exposure to peers' alcohol-related SMS content and later-drinking among first-year college students. Among 408 f...

Carious lesions are distributed nonuniformly across tooth surfaces of the complete dentition, suggesting that the effects of risk factors may be surface-specific. Whether genes differentially affect caries risk across tooth surfaces is unknown. We investigated the role of genetics on two classes of tooth surfaces, pit and fissure surfaces (PFS) and smooth surfaces (SMS), in more than 2,600 subj...

Improving Accuracy of SMS based FAQ Retrieval Aparna Joshi Department of Information Technology Army Institute of Technology, Pune University of Pune Maharashtra, India _______________________________________________________________________________________ Abstract: Short messaging service (SMS) is a convenient technology for a user to get the needed information delivered on demand. The automat...

BACKGROUND As healthcare services become progressively more stretched, there is increasing discussion of ways in which technological adjuncts may be used to deliver more cost-efficient services. Before widespread implementation, however, the use of these adjuncts requires proper scrutiny of their effects on psychological practice. AIMS This research examined the effectiveness of SMS reminders...

As a participant of FIRE 2012 monolingual English SMS based FAQ Retrieval Task, we proposed a theme matching scheme [1]. Once again the scheme is implemented for the same task in FIRE 2013 having different set of SMS and FAQ queries. An SMS text usually consists of certain noisy terms due to the limitations of characters allowed in an SMS, lack of screen space and unintended typographical error...

Emotional numbing symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are negatively associated with relationship satisfaction in combat veterans and their romantic partners. Many speculate that one mechanism of this association may be decreased disclosure by veterans, but previous studies lacked appropriate data to test this hypothesis. In a sample of 224 OIF/OEF-era National Guard service member...

The capacity of spent mushroom substrate (SMS) as a sorbent of fungicides was evaluated for its possible use in regulating pesticide mobility in the environment. The sorption studies involved four different SMS types in terms of nature and treatment and eight fungicides selected as representative compounds from different chemical groups. Nonlinear sorption isotherms were observed for all SMS-fu...