a bstract background: nurses are at risk for symptoms of compassion fatigue (cf) and burnout (bo). social support plays an important role in predicting cf and bo. this study was performed to determine the prevalence of the symptoms of cf and bo and the role of perceived social support in predicting these symptoms in iranian nurses. materials and methods: using a correlational descriptive survey...

The Cf-6 locus of tomato conferring resistance to the Belarus population of the leaf mould causative agent was mapped to the chromosomal region, located 2.2 and 3.4 cM apart from the microsatellite markers, SSR128 and SSR48, respectively. It was demonstrated that the Cf-6 gene, like the Cf-2/Cf-5 cluster, was located on the short arm of tomato chromosome 6. However, Cf-6 differed from these gen...

to compare potential of two organic materials including sewage sludge (ss) and municipal solid wastecompost (msw) on micronutrients entry to soil, a research was conducted as split-plot arrangement basedon randomized complete block design with three replications in research field of sari agriculturaluniversity. main-plot (fertilizer treatments) included 20 and 40 ton/ha ss, 20 and 40 ton/ha ss ...

Invasive fungal infections (IFIs) are common among lung transplant recipients (LTRs). Posaconazole is an important antifungal agent for both prophylaxis and treatment of IFIs; however, detailed pharmacokinetic data are limited among LTRs, particularly those with cystic fibrosis (CF). Our objective was to conduct a pharmacokinetic study of posaconazole oral suspension among LTRs, with particular...

We measured the bioelectric properties of 14 cystic fibrosis (CF) and 33 non-CF human fetal tracheal xenografts in severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) mice. All xenografts exhibited a mature airway-type epithelium irrespective of their gestational age, duration of engraftment, and genotype. The in vivo potential difference and the in vitro baseline short-circuit current ( I sc) were signifi...

BACKGROUND Treatment of respiratory exacerbations in Cystic Fibrosis (CF) is important in slowing disease progression. The treatment may be given either at home or at the hospital. The aim of our study was to compare both treatment settings. MATERIAL/METHODS We retrospectively analyzed data of 139 treatments in 54 CF patients (age range 12-47 y) treated for respiratory exacerbations at the ho...

The accumulation of mucus in affected organs is characteristic of cystic fibrosis (CF). The CF mouse small intestine has dramatic mucus accumulation and exhibits slower interdigestive intestinal transit. These factors are proposed to play cooperative roles that foster small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO) and contribute to the innate immune response of the CF intestine. It was hypothesiz...

BACKGROUND Primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD) and cystic fibrosis (CF) are increasingly compared. There are no chest magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) comparative studies of PCD and CF. We assessed clinical, functional, microbiological and MRI findings in PCD and mild CF patients in order to evaluate different expression of lung disease. METHODS Twenty PCD (15.1 years) and 20 CF subjects with mi...

This study evaluated causative factors in landslide susceptibility assessments and compared the performance of five models based on certainty factor (CF), logistic regression (LR), analytic hierarchy process (AHP), coupled CF–analytic (CF-AHP), CF–logistic (CF-LR). Kaiyang County, China, has complex geological conditions frequent disasters. Based field observations, nine influencing factors, na...