background: cystic fibrosis (cf) is a common genetic disorder chiefly characterized by respiratory and gastrointestinal symptoms. the purpose of this study was to evaluate the clinical presentation and growth status in cf patients at the time of diagnosis and following conventional treatment. materials and methods: a cross-sectional study was conducted on 67 cf patients who enrolled for at leas...

Abstract Background Different gamma camera calibration factor (CF) geometries have been proposed to convert SPECT data into units of activity concentration. However, no consensus has reached on a standardised geometry. The CF is dependent the selected geometry and further affected by partial volume effects. This study investigated effect two their corresponding recovery coefficients (RCs) quant...

To understand the role of religiousness/spirituality in coping in children with cystic fibrosis (CF). Participants were a convenience sample of 23 patients with CF, ages 5 to 12 years and their parent(s) in an ambulatory CF clinic. The design was a focused ethnography including in-depth interviews with children and parent(s), children’s drawings and self-administered written parental questionna...

NORTHWEST AFRICA 5790. TOP SEQUENCE OF THE NAKHLITE PILE. A. Jambon J-A. Barrat2,3, C. Bollinger2,3, V. Sautter4, O. Boudouma1 , R.C. Greenwood5, I.A. Franchi5 and D. Badia1, 1UPMC Univ Paris 06, ISTEP CNRS-UMR 7193, Paris France [email protected] , 2Université Européenne de Bretagne, 3Université de Brest CNRS-UMR 6538 IUEM, 29280 Plouzané France, MNHN Paris, Laboratoire de Minéralogie et C...

This research explored how gender portrayals in video games affect gender-related attitudes. Two hundred participants from the United Kingdom and Malaysia participated across three experiments, where appearance behaviour of game characters were manipulated with regard to target (enemy) (Study 1), sexually explicit attire 2) level character agency 3). We found minimal evidence that exposure gend...

plant secondary materials play an important role in health and human nutrition. according to the importance of coneflower in the production of secondary materials and also the effect of nutrient on the amount of secondary materials, a pot experiment was conducted with a completely randomized design six treatments and three replications in sari university of agricultural sciences and natural res...

the susceptibility to terbacil of six randomly selected strawberry cultivars (‘aromas’, ‘chambly’, ‘harmonie’, ‘kent’, ‘la clé des champs’ and ‘seascape’) was analysed using chlorophyll florescence (cf) in comparison with visual observation, in an attempt to develop a method for use in a breeding programme to select herbicide-resistant strawberry lines. terbacil was applied at one of five rates...