The bovine enterovirus (BEV) serotypes exhibit unique features of the non-translated regions (NTRs) which separate them from the other enteroviruses. Their most remarkable property is an additional genome region of 110 nt located between the 5'-cloverleaf and the internal ribosome entry site (IRES). This genome region has the potential to form an additional cloverleaf structure (domain I*) sepa...

The ability to navigate new environments has a significant impact on the daily life and independence of people with learning difficulties. The aims of this study were to investigate the development of route learning in Down syndrome (N = 50), Williams syndrome (N = 19), and typically developing children between 5 and 11 years old (N = 108); to investigate use of landmarks; and to relate cogniti...

Neylane Nyéria Coelho Batista Gadelha1, Diego Nery Benevides Gadelha2, Alexandre Rolim da Paz3, Maria Cecília Santos Cavalcanti Melo4, Thárcia Kiara Beserra Oliveira5, Carlos Teixeira Brandt6 1 Fellow MSc degree, Postgraduate Program in Surgery, Health Sciences Center, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE), Recife, PE, Brazil. 2 PhD, Postgraduate Program in Surgery, Health Sciences Center, ...

Immigrants from the Middle East have higher prevalence and incidence of type 2 diabetes (T2D) compared with native Swedes. The aim of the study was to describe and understand health beliefs in relation to T2D as well as attitudes regarding participation in a screening process in a local group of Assyrian immigrants living in Sweden. A qualitative and quantitative method was chosen in which 43 i...

Barbara Picconi,1* Fabrizio Gardoni,2* Diego Centonze,1 Daniela Mauceri,2 M. Angela Cenci,3 Giorgio Bernardi,1 Paolo Calabresi,1 and Monica Di Luca2 1Clinica Neurologica, Dipartimento di Neuroscienze, Università di Roma Tor Vergata, 00133 Rome, Italy and Fondazione Santa Lucia, Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico, 00179 Rome, Italy, 2Center of Excellence on Neurodegenerative Dis...

Although non-R&D innovation activities account for a signi…cant portion of innovation e¤orts carried out across very heterogeneous economies in Europe, how to incorporate them in to economic models is not always straightforward. For instance, the traditional macro approach to estimating the determinants of total factor productivity (TFP) does not handle them well. To counter these problems, thi...

We report a sensitive search for redshifted CO (3{2) emission from the weak radio galaxy 53W002 at z=2.394. Maps at resolutions of 3 00 and 235 km s ?1 show a signiicant emission peak within 0.5 00 of the optical and radio continuum peaks. The measured narrow band ux is approximately ten times the extrapolated cm-wavelength non-thermal radio continuum expected at 101.9 GHz and exhibits a spectr...

Although deficits in emotion recognition have been widely reported in autism spectrum disorder (ASD), experiments have been restricted to either facial or vocal expressions. Here, we explored multimodal emotion processing in children with ASD (N = 19) and with typical development (TD, N = 19), considering uni (faces and voices) and multimodal (faces/voices simultaneously) stimuli and developmen...

OBJECTIVES To determine the excess risk of non-chromosomal congenital anomaly (NCA) among teenage mothers and older mothers. DESIGN AND SETTING Population-based prevalence study using data from EUROCAT congenital anomaly registers in 23 regions of Europe in 15 countries, covering a total of 1.75 million births from 2000 to 2004. PARTICIPANTS A total of 38,958 cases of NCA that were live bir...

BACKGROUND The dimerization efficiency of FGFR3 transmembrane domain plays a critical role in the formation of a normal skeleton through the negative regulation of bone development. Recently, gain-of-function mutations in the transmembrane domain of FGFR3 has been described associated with an aberrant negative regulation, leading to the development of achondroplasia-group disorders, including a...