BACKGROUND Although children can benefit from being included in health decisions, little is known about effective interventions to support their involvement. The objective of this study was to evaluate the feasibility and acceptability of decision coaching guided by the Ottawa Family Decision Guide with children and parents considering insulin delivery options for type 1 diabetes (insulin pump,...

Hydrophobic long-range interactions and local polypeptide chain propensities are the major factors directing protein folding. Incorporating both these terms in addition to the Dayho matrix helps us to increase quality of protein fold recognition via sequencestructure alignment. We have shown that the results of secondary structure prediction substantially increase a sensitivity of the fold reco...

The Zagros forests (west of Iran) have been highly exploited in recent decades by human impacts. Easy access, abundance and variety of valuable forest yields have led to population growth density, creation of new residential areas and deforestation activities. In order to determinate the distribution and rate of deforestation from 1995 to 2006 by using the satellite imagery (IRS-1C and  LANDSAT...

Linkage was shown between the myotonic dystrophy locus (DM) and a highly polymorphic AC repeat marker within the kallikrein (KLK1) locus (Z = 3.00, theta = 0.0). Linkage between KLK1 and the highly polymorphic AC repeat marker within the apolipoprotein C2 (APOC2) locus, which had been established in normal families, was confirmed in myotonic dystrophy families (Z = 4.37, theta = 0.11). These hi...

The relation between gene body methylation and gene function remains elusive. Yet, our understanding of this relationship can contribute significant knowledge on how and why organisms target specific gene bodies for methylation. Here, we studied gene body methylation patterns in two Daphnia species. We observed both highly methylated genes and genes devoid of methylation in a background of low ...

We systematically analyze three GRB samples named as radio-loud, radio-quiet and radio-none afterglows, respectively. It is shown that dichotomy of the radio-loud afterglows not necessary. Interestingly, we find intrinsic durations ($T_{int}$), isotropic energies prompt gamma-rays ($E_{\gamma, iso}$) redshifts ($z$) their host galaxies are log-normally distributed for both except those GRBs wit...

We present a model that integrates the economic input-output approach of life cycle assessment with environmental fate, exposure, and risk assessment to estimate the spatial distribution of air toxic health risks due to sector-specific economic activity in the U.S. The model is used to relate the economic activity and exposure potential (population density and meteorology) associated with point...