0747-5632/$ see front matter 2012 Elsevier Ltd. A http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2012.05.001 ⇑ Corresponding author. Address: School of Com University, 3145 Derby Hall, 154 N. Oval Mall, Columb Tel.: +1 614 787 6969. E-mail address: [email protected] (Z. Wang). This study extends the U&G theoretical perspective to account for the situated, adaptive, and dynamic nature of mediated cognition and...

OBJECTIVE To perform the first prospective survey of neurologic and neurosurgical emergency department (ED) admissions in Haiti. METHODS Data of all ED admissions at 3 Haitian hospitals for 90 consecutive days per site were collected prospectively. Patients who were given a diagnosis of a neurologic or neurosurgical disorder by the ED physician were entered in a deidentified database includin...

A total of 1243 records of 585 dairy Friesian cows collected through 8 years (1997-2004) were used to study factors affecting retention of placenta and its influence on reproductive performance and milk production. The obtained results showed that the percentage of retained placenta averaged 24.90%, the highest percentage was in the year 1998 (46.3%) and it increased significantly (P<0.05) with...

BACKGROUND The 2004 Niigata-Chuetsu earthquake of Japan caused considerable damage. We assessed long-term changes in psychological distress among earthquake victims during the period 5 years after the earthquake. METHODS The participants were people aged 18 years or older living in Yamakoshi, a community in Niigata Prefecture near the epicenter. A self-administered questionnaire survey was co...

To evaluate if glutamine (GLN) supplementation may affect primary outcomes in patients undergoing major elective abdominal operations, we performed a systematic literature review of randomized clinical trials (RCTs) published from 1983 to 2013 and comparing intravenous glutamine dipeptide supplementation to no supplementation in elective surgical abdominal procedures. A meta-analysis for each o...

Chronic wasting disease detection in the lymph nodes of free-ranging cervids by real time quaking-induced conversion" (2014). Abstract 23 Chronic wasting disease (CWD), a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy of deer, elk 24 and moose, is the only prion disease affecting free-ranging animals. First identified in northern 25 Colorado and southern Wyoming in 1967, new epidemic foci of the disea...

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INTRODUCTION This systematic review is focused on the in-hospital mortality and neurological outcome of survivors after prehospital resuscitation following trauma. Data were analyzed for adults/pediatric patients and for blunt/penetrating trauma. METHODS A systematic review was performed using the data available in Ovid Medline. 476 articles from 1/1964 - 5/2011 were identified by two indepen...

We present here the first performance evaluation of a new direct method for free thyroxin (T4) in serum by radioimmunoassay, with use of coated tubes and a radiolabeled T4 analog (Diagnostic Products Corp.). The assay is precise and robust: within-run imprecision (CV), 3.1-6.6%; between-run imprecision, 4.0-7.9%; no demonstrable variation between technologists irrespective of experience with th...

OBJECTIVE Only a few cross-sectional studies have assessed the association between coffee, tea and caffeine and the risk of depression. Our aim was to determine the association in a population-based cohort study. DESIGN The population-based Kuopio Ischaemic Heart Disease Risk Factor Study cohort was recruited between 1984 and 1989 and followed until the end of 2006. We investigated the associ...