Problem consideredTobacco use is the second most common preventable cause of death in world and quitting tobacco an important strategy to prevent premature morbidity mortality. The objective this study was determine correlates quit attempts among users India from GATS-2 data.MethodsComplex sample analysis considered for logistic regression identify using Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS)- 2 (2...

AIM To compare quality of life and treatment satisfaction between patients who had selective laser trabeculoplasty (SLT) and those on medication. METHODS A prospective clinical trial on 143 glaucoma patients that received SLT and a control group that continued using anti glaucoma medication was conducted. Tear break-up time (BUT), punctuate keratitis, need for help, use of artificial tears an...

PURPOSE To evaluate long term intraocular pressure (IOP) control after repeat selective laser trabeculoplasty (SLT). METHODS This single center study retrospectively reviews the electronic medical records of patients with open angle glaucoma undergoing repeat SLT. Eyes with prior argon laser trabeculoplasty, or incisional surgery before or during the study period were excluded. Demographics, ...

Background and Aims: The accurate mechanisms of ankle instability cannot be assessed in the absence of reliable knowledge about ground reaction force (GRF) variables. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the test-retest reliability of GRF variables during forward and lateral jump-landing in volleyball players with functional ankle instability (FAI). Methods: Eighteen professional volle...

Specific DNA probes were used to identify Shiga-like toxin I (SLT I)- and SLT II-producing Escherichia coli in vegetables, meats, cattle, and farm animals in Thailand. SLT-producing E. coli was isolated from 9% of market beef specimens, from 8 to 28% of fresh beef specimens at slaughterhouses, and from 11 to 84% of fecal specimens from cattle. Animals were frequently infected with several diffe...

Characteristically, enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) strains produce Shiga-like toxin type I (SLT-I), SLT-II, or both of these immunologically distinct cytotoxins. No antigenic or receptor-binding variants of SLT-I have been identified, but a number of SLT-II-related toxins have been described. Because EHEC O91:H21 strain B2F1, which produces two SLT-II-related toxins, is exquisitely v...

In this demonstration, we present POSSLT (POSTECH Spoken Language Translation) for a Korean-English statistical spoken language translation (SLT) system using pseudo-morpheme and confusion network (CN) based technique. Like most other SLT systems, automatic speech recognition (ASR) and machine translation (MT) are coupled in a cascading manner in our SLT system. We used confusion network based ...

Thirty-two clinical isolates of Shiga-like toxin (SLT)-producing Escherichia coli associated with single cases or outbreaks of bloody diarrhea, hemorrhagic colitis, the hemolytic uremic syndrome, or edema disease of swine were examined for multiple copies of genes belonging to the slt-I or slt-II toxin families. Five of 19 strains that were known to produce SLT-II or to hybridize to slt-II-spec...

PURPOSE To report the initial clinical outcomes of the newly devised sliding loop technique (SLT) used for renorrhaphy in patients who underwent robot-assisted laparoscopic partial nephrectomy (RALPN) for small renal mass. MATERIALS AND METHODS We reviewed the surgical videos and medical charts of 31 patients who had undergone RALPN with the SLT renorrhaphy performed by two surgeons (CWJ and ...