BACKGROUND Routine EEGs in individuals with epilepsy have interictal spikes in 56% of cases. The availability of prolonged EEG has changed the use of EEG in the assessment of epilepsy. OBJECTIVE To determine the time to first epileptiform activity on EEG in patients with epilepsy. This data will help optimize the duration of electrographic assessment for interictal activity in epileptic indiv...

Address correspondence to: Dr. Jacqueline L. Wolf, E/DA 501, Division of Gastroenterology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA 02215; Tel: 617-667-1676; Fax: 617-667-2767; E-mail: [email protected] Paraneoplastic syndromes are systemic disorders that are associated with malignancy but are not directly due to the local effects of a tumor mass or its metastases. These syndrome...

Protocol: To detect the 506 polymorphism, a 567 bp SMPD1 genomic fragment is amplified using sense (5'-AGTAGTCGACATGGGCAGGATGTGTGG-3') and antisense (5'-AGTAGTGTCGACTTGCCTGGTTGAACC AC AGC-3') primers. Dot-blot hybridization is performed using allele-specific oligonucleotides for 506-Arg (5'-ACTACTCCAGGAGCTCT-3') and for 506-Gly (5'-ACTACTCCGGGAGCTCT-3'), which are hybridized at 42°C and washed ...

Quasi-life tables, in which the data arise from many concurrent, independent, discrete-time renewal processes, were defined by Baxter (1994, Biometrika 81:567-577), who outlined some methods for estimation. The processes are not observed individually; only the total numbers of renewals at each time point are observed. Crowder and Stephens (2003, Lifetime Data Anal 9:345-355) implemented a forma...

5 Gregory M. Anstead,* Deanna A. Sutton, and John R. 6 Graybill 7 8 1 Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases; and 9 3 Department of Pathology, Fungus Testing Laboratory 10 University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio 11 San Antonio, TX 78229 12 13 2 Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases 14 South Texas Veterans Healthcare System 15 San Antonio, TX 7...

The quality of scientific research on jurisprudence and the effectiveness their management. Review 2nd edition textbook by I. V. Ponkin A. Lapteva “Methodology applied analytics” (Moscow: Consortium “Analytics. Law. Digit”, Buki Vedi Publ., 2021, 567 p.)

BACKGROUND Frequent short sickness absences result in understaffing and interfere with work processes. We need more knowledge about factors associated with this type of absence. AIMS To investigate associations between the frequency of previous sickness absence and self-reported perceptions of health and work. METHODS Cross-sectional study of female hospital care workers in which health, wo...