among the power drills ( electrical/ pneumatic/battery ) used in orthopedic surgery, battery drill has got several advantages. surgeons in low resource settings could not routinely use orthopedic battery drills (obd) due to the prohibitive cost of good drills or poor quality of other drills. “hardware” or engineering battery drill (hbd) is a viable alternative to obd. hbd is easy to procure, ru...

The impact of in vitro chemosensitivity test-guided platinum-based adjuvant chemotherapy on the surgical outcomes of patients undergoing complete resection for locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) has yet to be elucidated. In the present study, the utility of adjuvant chemotherapy based on the collagen gel droplet embedded culture drug sensitivity test (CD-DST) in patients with p...

This study investigated the effect of applying the dynamic system theory (DST) and cognitive linguistics (CL) insights into grammar instruction on EFL learners’ learning of English prepositions and learner autonomy. Sixty Iranian EFL learners at the lower-intermediate level of language proficiency were randomly assigned to 1 experimental and 1 control group. The 2 groups filled out an autonomy ...

The survival rate of 19 patients who underwent living-related kidney transplantation after donor-specific blood transfusions (DST) was compared with that of 32 historical controls receiving transplants without DST. The graft survival rate of the DST group was 82% after two and three years. The graft survival rate of the DST group was significantly better than the 53% rate after two years obtain...

Dexamethasone Suppression Test (DST) was performed on twenty five patients satisfying Research Diagnostic Criteria for the diagnosis of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Abnormal DST responses were seen in twelve (48%) patients. It was observed that the non-suppressor group scored significantly more on depression and obsessionality. The implications of the results are discussed.

OBJECTIVE Diabetes or impaired glucose tolerance are common in patients with Cushing's syndrome (CS). In this study we investigated the incidence of subclinical Cushing's syndrome (SCS) in type 2 diabetic patients with poor and good metabolic control and the relationship between blood glucose and cortisol levels. DESIGN A total of 400 type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) patients (Group A, HbA1c ≥...

The study area is an oil and gas field that has a low resistivity reservoir zone in the Talang AkarFormation, South Sumatera Basin. composed of siltstone sandstone was depositedin shallow to transitional marine environment. aim this identify determine potential oflow reservoirs formation. data used include well log, mud core data(porosity, permeability, petrography), formation water analysis, b...

Investigators continue to debate whether the Dexamethasone Suppression Test (DST) reflects clinical severity or degree of melancholia ("endogeneity"). To evaluate this question, we studied 73 drug-free inpatients diagnosed with Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia/Research Diagnostic Criteria (SADS/RDC) as having major depressive disorder (MDD). We compared absolute and dichotomou...

BACKGROUND Important methodological questions still exist concerning the Dexamethasone Suppression Test (DST), including the possibility of a better way of interpreting it. The aim of the present study was to explore the feasibility of an alternative way of interpreting DST results. METHODS A total of 50 patients with major depression aged 41.0 +/- 11.4 years old participated in the study. Pa...

PURPOSE An in vitro-chemosensitivity test using the collagen gel droplet embedded culture drug test (CD-DST), established by Kobayashi et al. (Jpn J Cancer Res 2001; 92: 203-10), has been widely used on various tumors. This study retrospectively evaluated its possibility of clinical application to patients with malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM). PATIENTS AND METHODS CD-DST using 26 fresh s...