Twenty-nine canine cutaneous mast cell tumors (MCTs) were morphometrically analyzed with regard to mean nuclear area (MNA) using cytopathology smears. The results showed a correlation between MNA and survival. When graded into 2 morphometrically different groups, there were statistically significant differences among high- and low-grade MCTs, regarding both Romanowsky-type stain and hematoxylin...

Abstract This article provides a model for how communication phenomena can be normatively assessed using multiple normative perspectives simultaneously. We exemplify the procedure of multiperspectival assessment (MNA) mediated reactions to terrorism as our case in point. first identify challenges related speed and substance ways which relations solidarity are communicatively constructed reactin...

to enrich our understanding of the attitudinal/motivational basis of foreign language learning at junior high school level, this study investigated the students’ status of l2 motivation, the relationship between motivational factors, and the possibility of predicting their motivated learning behavior in light of dörnyei’s (2005, 2009) theory of l2 motivational self system. to this end, 1462 jun...

Forty-four percent of old male BUF/Mna rats showed refusal of food intake when they were isolated in metabolic cages.

introduction: a challenge for health care providers is that there will be a distinct rise globally in the number of elderly people aged 80 years and over. malnutrition is a well-known problem among elderly people. the aim of this study was to determine nutritional status and its associated risk factors in elderly nursing home residents in tehran, iran. methods: the cross-sectional study was car...

This study aimed to examine the influence of changes in exercise status, nutritional and a number comorbidities on functional ability Taiwanese community-dwelling older adults. Data were obtained from Taiwan Longitudinal Study Aging. The results revealed that current consistent negatively associated with subsequent 4- 8-year activities daily living (ADL) instrumental ADL (IADL) decline (all p &...

INTRODUCTION The aim of our study was to investigate and evaluate, in a multicenter study, the prevalence of malnutrition as well as the relationship between different anthropometric and biochemical markers with Mininutritional assessment (MNA) scores. SUBJECTS AND METHODS A representative sample of the institutionalized Spanish population aged 65 and older (stricly speaking, born in 1942 or ...

It is generally admitted that the prevalence of undernutrition at home is not high. However, as showed by a number of studies carried out in Europe and USA (1), it can reach half of the patients when admitted in hospital. Moreover, in a geriatric population, undernutrition is not only linked to a morbidity and mortality increase (2) but also to a bad quality of life (3). The frequence of protei...