Given the relevance of child maltreatment for the development and treatment of many mental disorders, the objective of our study was the psychometric evaluation of the German version of the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ). In a sample of psychiatric patients (N=1 524) the established factor structure (i.e. sexual, physical and emotional abuse as well as physical and emotional neglect) was ...

Puerarin is the main isoflavone found in Pueraria lobata (Willd) Ohwi, which has been used in therapy for various cardiovascular diseases. The present study examined the effects of puerarin on the large-conductance voltage- and Ca2+-activated potassium (BK(Ca)) channel and on rat thoracic aortas. BK(Ca) channels encoded with either alpha (BK-alpha) or alpha/beta subunits (BK-alpha+beta1) were h...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to evaluate stroke patient-proxy agreement with respect to social determinants of health, including depression, optimism, and spirituality, and to explore approaches to minimize proxy-introduced bias. METHODS Stroke patient-proxy pairs from the Brain Attack Surveillance in Corpus Christi Project were interviewed (n=34). Evaluation of agreem...

Reactions of alpha(2)-macroglobulin (alpha(2)M) with primary amines (ammonium chloride, methylammonium chloride and ethylammonium chloride) or proteolytic enzymes (trypsin, chymotrypsin and thrombin) resulted in changes of the absorption, fluorescence and circular-dichroism spectra and of the sedimentation coefficient of the inhibitor. All physico-chemical changes caused by the inactivation of ...

It has been shown by Marques and Nunez that the first $\alpha'$-correction to bosonic heterotic string can be captured in $O(D,D)$ covariant formalism of Double Field Theory via a certain two-parameter deformation double Lorentz transformations. This turn leads an infinite tower $\alpha'$-corrections it suggested they generalization Bergshoeff-de Roo identification between gauge degrees freedom...

Given a finite and connected two-dimensional CW complex K with fundamental group $$\Pi $$ second integer cohomology $$H^2(K;\mathbb {Z})$$ of odd order, we prove that: (1) for each local coefficient system $$\alpha :\Pi \rightarrow \textrm{Aut}(\mathbb over K, the corresponding twisted $$H^2(K;_{\alpha }\!\mathbb is say order $$\mathfrak {c}^{*}(\alpha )$$ , there exists natural function—which ...

We measure, for the first time, the gain compression coefficient and above-threshold linewidth enhancement factor (alpha parameter) in quantum dot (QD) distributed feedback lasers (DFB) by time-resolved-chirp (TRC) characterization. The alpha parameter is measured to be 2.6 at threshold and increases to 8 when the output power of the QD DFB is increased to 3 mW. The dependence of the above-thre...