Changes in the components of radiation regime solar during periods intense droughts and their comparison with average values for 1991-2020 Ukraine are given. Drought is a complex dangerous natural phenomenon caused by anticyclonic nature atmospheric circulation, long-term transformation slow-moving air masses over large areas. A dynamic processes leads to its development. They facilitated an in...

football medicine has developed in the world in recent years. afc medical committee, established the idea of football medicine travelling fellowship two years ago and provided high-level healthcare services to football players in asian countries. this is a report on my one month experience in a travelling fellowship program for football medicine which is attempting to tell the reader about the ...

The study has now been extended to 22 first degree relatives positive for two or more antibodies among anti-GAD (GADA), anti-IA-2 (IA2A) and anti-insulin (IAA) undergoing a total of 27 six-month periods of a gluten-free diet, followed by an equal number of six-month periods of normal gluten-containing diet. Five subjects developed clinical diabetes during follow-up. In the remainder, first phas...

This paper examines whether the puzzling negative relationship between idiosyncratic volatility and next month performance is affected by the intensity of merger and acquisition (M&A) activity in the market. Our results show that the idiosyncratic volatility puzzle is stronger in periods of high M&A activity than in periods of low M&A activity. Further analysis shows that the negative relations...

BACKGROUND Traditionally, spine societies and journals have set guidelines requiring a minimum 24-month follow-up for reporting results of surgical implant studies. However, the basis for this particular time period is not clear. The purpose of this study was to analyze prospective spinal implant studies reporting data at multiple specific follow-up periods to determine if there were significan...

AIMS To identify a model to assess general practitioner use of pathology services that could be applied to assess specific interventions designed to promote best practice. METHODS A database containing standardised requesting data for 22 general practices was constructed. The database contained 28 tests covering 95% of general practitioner activity, distributed across pathology, and it was ev...

AIM To evaluate corneal topographic changes and surgically induced astigmatism (SIA) after combined phacoemulsification and 25-gauge transconjunctival sutureless vitrectomy (25-G TSV). METHODS A retrospective study on 96 eyes of 87 patients who underwent combined phacoemulsification and 25-G TSV. The different topographic parameters and SIA were analyzed pre- and postoperatively. RESULTS Th...

Software Conceptual Integrity has been considered a cardinal concern for design and development of software systems. But, except for verbal descriptions of desiderata, there were no formal tools to guarantee that conceptual integrity is attained. This paper proposes an axiomatic algebraic approach, based upon the assumption that the software system in each level of the system hierarchy is repre...