Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli O157:H7 (O157) are significant foodborne pathogens and pose a serious threat to public health worldwide. The major reservoirs of O157 are asymptomatic cattle which harbor the organism in the terminal recto-anal junction (RAJ). Some colonized animals, referred to as "super-shedders" (SS), are known to shed O157 in exceptionally large numbers (>104 CFU/g of ...

Wicket spikes (WS) are a benign electroencephalogram (EEG) variant, seen mainly in adults, during somnolence, in the temporal regions, in many clinical situations. WS can appear in trains or isolatedly, sometimes being difficult to differentiate from epileptiform activity. We reviewed 2,000 EEG's, found 65 with WS (3.25%) and compared them with 65 normal EEG without WS. There was statistically ...

Abstract In this study, inspired by the definition and a previous study [F. Eryılmaz, SS-lifting modules rings , Miskolc Math. Notes 22 (2021), no. 2, 655–662], left Harada are adapted to ss-Harada rings, important properties of these provided. The characterization ring R R with perfect Rad</...

We report experiments on the effect of intracellular divalent cations (Mg, Ca, Mn) on K transport and cell volume in erythrocytes from patients with homozygous hemoglobin S disease (SS cells). When CO-treated SS erythrocytes are exposed to the ionophore A23187, removal of cell Mg markedly stimulates K efflux, whereas increasing cell Mg inhibits K efflux. The Ki for the inhibition by internal fr...

AIMS To investigate whether sagittal synostosis (SS) has consequences for children's mental and psychomotor development, and whether surgery has any impact on this. METHODS The study involved 28 children with SS who underwent corrective surgery at a mean age of 8.0 (SD 7.16) months, and 28 normal controls. All the children with SS were assessed pre- and postoperatively using the Griffiths Men...

On the basis of the similarity of brain-damaged Ss to process schizophrenics and judgmental studies of the amount of confusion in thinking exhibited in Comprehension, Vocabulary, and Similarities (C-V-S) test protocols for such Ss, 3 out of 4 predictions of diagnostic judgmental errors in judging global C-V-S test protocols were confirmed. 45 PhD clinicians, with a minimum of 4 yr. clinical exp...

Friction coefficient and wear rate of different steel materials are investigated and compared in this study. In order to do so, a pin on disc apparatus is designed and fabricated. Experiments are carried out when different types of disc materials such as stainless steel 314 (SS 314), stainless steel 202 (SS 202) and mild steel slide against stainless steel 314 (SS 314) pin. Experiments are cond...

BACKGROUND In this study, we investigate the correlation between reduced global longitudinal peak systolic strain (GLPSS) and the SYNTAX score (SS) in patients undergoing coronary angiography. METHODS We examined 71 patients undergoing both echocardiogram and coronary angiography within 15 days. All patients had normal global and/or regional wall motion on resting echocardiogram. We calculate...

OBJECTIVES To compare conjunctival goblet cell numbers as well as epithelial turnover in patients with non-Sjögren syndrome--associated keratoconjunctivitis sicca (NSS-KCS) and those with SS-KCS before and after 6 months of treatment with topical cyclosporine A (CsA) ophthalmic emulsion. METHODS Conjunctival biopsy specimens from 16 patients with NSS-KCS and 12 with SS-KCS were obtained at ba...

A transitively normal subgroup of a group G is one that is normal in every subgroup in which it is subnormal. This concept is obviously related to the transitivity of normality because the latter holds in every subgroup of a group G if and only if every subgroup of G is transitively normal. In this paper we describe the structure of a group whose cyclic subgroups (or a part of them) are transit...