This study was conducted to investigate the effect of dietary chromium-methionine (Cr-Met) supplementation on growth performance, feeding behavior and physiological responses of Holstein male calves during two different phases of body weight (BW). Twenty six (153.5±9.83 kg of BW) male calves were divided in two groups (n=13) and randomly assigned to treatments: 1) control and 2) Cr-Met (1.1 mg ...

The aim of this study was to identify and analyze the nursing diagnoses for patients in the immediate postoperative period of laparoscopic cholecystectomy. We elaborated and validated an instrument for data collection and registration. Fifteen 15 adult patients were evaluated in the immediate postoperative period of laparoscopic cholecystectomy, four men and 11 women, with average age of 45 yea...

This study sought to characterise the swabbing pattern in the Spanish Influenza Sentinel Surveillance System (SISSS) and ascertain to what extent the system meets the guidelines currently being drafted by The European Influenza Surveillance Scheme (EISS). Data on seasons 2002/2003 to 2005/2006 were drawn from SISSS. The study analysed collection and dispatch of swab specimens for virological an...

This article deals with the digital inversive method for generating uniform pseudorandom numbers. Equidistribution and statistical independence properties of the generated pseudorandom number sequences over parts of the period are studied based on the distribution of tuples of successive terms in the sequence. The main result is an upper bound for the average value of the star discrepancy of th...

a survey on women’s knowledge about menopause in rasht sh seyam msc received: 23 july, 2009 accepted: 17 oct, 2009 abstract background & aims: menopause is a natural period of life that means permanent cessation of menstruation and end of fertility period. menopause is an important phenomenon in any women’s life. the aim of this research was to determine the knowledge of women about signs and s...

Grebogi, Ott and Yorke (Phys. Rev. A 38(7), 1988) have investigated the effect of finite precision on average period length of chaotic maps. They showed that the average length of periodic orbits (T ) of a dynamical system scales as a function of computer precision (ε) and the correlation dimension (d) of the chaotic attractor: T ∼ ε. In this work, we are concerned with increasing the average p...

Background and Purpose Despite its low efficacy, aspirin is the most widely used drug for secondary stroke prevention. The reasons why stroke recurs while patients are on aspirin are unknown. We have analyzed a series of patients who had recurrent strokes while on aspirin. Methods Out of 2231 consecutive patients who were admitted to the Tel Aviv Medical Center from May 1988 through December 19...

In the past years various approaches for assessing bioequivalence of so-called "highly variable drugs" have been debated. These are drugs whose pharmacokinetic profiles vary considerably when given to the same subject. As a consequence of the high variability, average bioequivalence between two such drugs can only be shown with an unfeasibly high number of subjects. Therefore regulatory agencie...

Java S automatic memory management is the main reason that prevents Java from being used in hard realtime environments. We present the garbage collection mechanism that is used by the Jamaica Virtual Machine, an implementation of the Java Virtual Machine Specification. This mechanism differs significantly from existing implementations in the way threads are implemented, root references are foun...

A memory leak in a managed program occurs when the program inadvertently maintains references to objects that it no longer needs. Memory leaks cause systematic heap growth which degrades performance and results in program crashes after perhaps days or weeks of execution. Prior approaches for detecting memory leaks rely on heap differencing or detailed object statistics which store state proport...