The growth in direct-to-consumer advertising(DTCA)over the past two decades has facilitated the communication of prescription drug information directly to consumers. Data from a 1999 national survey are employed to determine the factors influencing consumers' opinions of the utility of DTC ads for health care decision making. We also analyze whether consumers use DTC ad information in health ca...

We present a two-part system for conditional FLP-out of FRT-flanked sequences in Caenorhabditis elegans to control gene activity in a spatially and/or temporally regulated manner. Using reporters, we assess the system for efficacy and demonstrate its use as a cell lineage marking tool. In addition, we construct and test a dominant-negative form of hlh-12, a gene that encodes a basic helix-loop-...

WILSON, J. R. AND L. V. DICARA. Effects of previous curare-immobilization on Pavlovian conditioned heart rate decelerations in the curarized rat. PHYSIOL. BEHAV. 14(3) 259-264, 1975. Recent evidence indicates that mechanisms other than the vagal-blocking properties of d-tubocurarine chloride (dTC) or inadequate respiration may account for the reports of invariant heart rate (HR) in curarized ra...

BACKGROUND Cervical lymph node metastases from differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) are common. Thirty to eighty percent of patients with papillary thyroid cancer harbor lymph node metastases, with the central neck being the most common compartment involved. The goals of this study were to: (1) identify appropriate methods for determining metastatic DTC in the lateral neck and (2) address the ex...

In this paper, a new adaptive reference based approach to direct torque control (DTC) method has been proposed for brushless direct current (BLDC) motor drives. Conventional DTC method uses two main reference parameters as: flux and torque. A main difference from the conventional method of it was that only one reference parameter (speed) was used to control the BLDC motor and the second control...

The incidence of thyroid cancer is increasing in several countries. The main objective of this retrospective study was to find and describe province-specific estimates of incidence in males and females by age groups for differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC). This study reports on 87 cases of DTC from Baluchistan province of Pakistan treated with post operative radioiodine at the Center for Nuclea...

BACKGROUND At metastatic relapse, detection of circulating tumor cells (CTC) in peripheral blood is predictive of poor survival of breast cancer patients. Detection of disseminated tumor cells (DTC) in bone marrow (BM) is an independent prognostic factor in early breast cancer. We evaluated the prognostic value of DTC detection in the BM of metastatic breast cancer patients. MATERIALS AND MET...

This study examined the intergenerational effects of parental conviction of a substance-related charge on children's academic performance and, conditional on a conviction, whether completion of an adult drug treatment court (DTC) program was associated with improved school performance. State administrative data from North Carolina courts, birth records, and school records were linked for 2005-2...

At present, induction motors are the dominant drives in various industries. It is quite cumbersome to control an induction motor (IM) because of its poor dynamic response in comparison to the DC motor drives. The central theme of Vector Control (VC) is to decouple the stator current of the IM into two orthogonal components and is to control these two components individually so as to achieve an ...

The prognosis of T0 stage differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) remains unclear. This study aimed to investigate the prognosis of T0 stage DTC patients to provide a new perspective on treatment guidelines for these patients. We investigated a large cohort of DTC patients from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) database between 2004 and 2013. Patient survival curves were examin...