Natural body movements are temporal sequences of individual actions. In order to realise a visual analysis of these actions, the human visual system must accomplish a temporal segmentation of action sequences. We attempt to reproduce human temporal segmentations with Bayesian binning (BB)[8]. Such a reproduction would not only help our understanding of human visual processing, but would also ha...

OBJECTIVES We evaluate the efficacy and tolerability of ritonavir-boosted dual protease inhibitor as a nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor-sparing regimen in a prospective open-label randomized pilot trial in antiretroviral-naive patients. METHODS Thirty patients received fosamprenavir/atazanavir/ritonavir (Group 1) and 31 patients received saquinavir/atazanavir/ritonavir (Group 2). Th...

Conducting research in the area of sexual violence has complex ethical and practical challenges for the researcher. Managing ethical issues in sexual violence is important and can be achieved through the use of pilot studies. The primary purpose of the pilot study was to identify and manage potential ethical and practical problems that could jeopardise the main study or violate the ethical and ...

OBJECTIVE The study aimed to assess the antidepressant efficacy and tolerability of adjunctive ropinirole in outpatients with treatment-resistant depression (TRD). METHOD The study sample consisted of patients with a major depressive episode (diagnosed according to DSM-IV criteria) and TRD. Ropinirole 0.25 to 1.5 mg daily was added to tricyclic antidepressants or selective serotonin reuptake ...

Fibroblast growth factor 23 (FGF-23) is known as a phosphaturic factor regulating phosphate homeostasis. Several studies suggest that dietary phosphate, serum phosphate and 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D [1,25(OH)(2)D] are candidate regulators of FGF-23. While the human studies, which modulated the dietary or serum phosphate showed in rather controversial results, manipulation of the active vitamin ...

Female and male reproductive tracts are of interest sites to study of immune system because they encounter specific infections such as those are sexually transmitted. Furthermore, female reproductive tract is in close contact with allogenic sperms and transmitted microorganisms during intercourse and semi allogenic fetus during pregnancy. In mammals, there are two types of immune responses, the...