objective: to compare the effects of two auditory methods by mother and fetus on the results of nst in 2011-2012. materials and methods: in this single-blind clinical trial, 213 pregnant women with gestational age of 37-41 weeks who had no pregnancy complications were randomly divided into 3 groups (auditory intervention for mother, auditory intervention for fetus, and control) each containing ...

Critical values are vital to safe clinical and laboratory practice. To address the lack of information on critical values in coagulation, pattern-of-practice surveys were distributed to members of the North American Specialized Coagulation Laboratory Association. More than 70% of respondents had critical values for commonly performed tests. Median values were as follows: prothrombin time, more ...

conclusions fentanyl and fentanyl plus lidocaine effectively decreased the hemodynamic response to tracheal intubation, however, neither fentanyl nor fentanyl plus lidocaine, could inhibit all hemodynamic responses, moreover fentanyl plus lidocaine was not more effective than fentanyl alone. background induction of anesthesia and endotracheal intubation often creates a period of hemodynamic ins...

The reticular motility in 144 cattle with vagal indigestion was evaluated by ultrasonography; 97 had proximal functional stenosis (reticulo-omasal stenosis) and 47 had distal functional stenosis (pyloric stenosis). A 3.5 MHz linear transducer was used to measure the frequency, amplitude, duration and speed of the reticular contractions per three minutes while the animals were standing and unsed...

Rapid immunostaining of frozen sections within a tolerable time span would be very helpful for intraoperative diagnosis. A protocol was therefore established using the enhanced polymer one-step staining (EPOS) system (Dako) with antibodies against leucocyte common antigen (LCA), cytokeratin (CK), and anti-melanoma (MEL). Best results with reliable and specific immunostaining and a labelling int...

The paper is organized as follows. The definition of jitter transfer and its relevance to high-speed standards is first presented. We then describe the measurement concept used in this paper and construct a very simple Introspect ESP Test Procedure for the automatic collection of PLL jitter transfer functions and loop bandwidth parameters. We then describe advanced topics related to min-max VCO...

The work system is the most important thing in company, especially manufacturing companies that produce various kinds of kitchen utensils made from stainless steel 402 and 201 according to market demand. Of many existing products, there are products with highest demand level but take a long time packing division, which only has one station. MTM (Method Time Measurement) method used map movement...

The Myocardial Infarction National Audit Project (MINAP) was developed primarily as a response by the profession to the audit requirements of the National Service Framework for coronary heart disease. MINAP began to collect data in October 2000 and by October 2002, 223 hospitals in England and Wales had returned data on patients with acute myocardial infarction. MINAP provides contemporary anal...

Cognition, negative symptoms, and depression are potential predictors of disability in schizophrenia. We present analyses of pooled data from four separate studies (all n>169; total n=821) that assessed differential aspects of disability and their potential determinants. We hypothesized that negative symptoms would predict social outcomes, but not vocational functioning or everyday activities a...

Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) is an emerging arbovirus, and inter-continental spread is an impending threat. The virus is maintained in a transmission cycle between mosquito vectors and vertebrate hosts, including birds. We detected variation in interspecies responses among North American birds to infection with strains of two different JEV genotypes (I and III). Several native North Americ...