June 2010 Page 1 of 41 LEAD Action News vol 10 no 2, June 2010 ISSN 1324-6011 Incorporating Lead Aware Times (ISSN 1440-4966) & Lead Advisory Service News (ISSN 1440-0561) The journal of The LEAD (Lead Education and Abatement Design) Group Inc. PO Box 161 Summer Hill NSW 2130 Australia Ph: (02) 9716 0014 Email www.lead.org.au/cu.html Web:www.lead.org.au/ Edited by Anne Roberts. Food Photos by C...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES In this single-institution study, we aimed to compare the safety, feasibility, and outcomes of single-incision laparoscopic sigmoidectomy (SILSS) with multiport laparoscopic sigmoidectomy (MLS) for recurrent diverticulitis. METHODS Between October 2011 and February 2013, 60 sigmoidectomies were performed by the same surgeon. Forty patients had a MLS and 20 patients h...

Using chiral low energy theorems and elastic unitarity assumption, the τ → πKν decay is investigated. The vector and scalar πK form factors are calculated. It is found that the πK spectrum is dominated by the K∗ resonance. By measuring the forward-backward asymmetry, it is shown that the S wave πK phase shift can be determined near the K∗ resonance region. The calculated branching ratio and res...

PROBLEM We investigated leukocyte and lymphocyte subsets in HIV-infected or HIV-uninfected, pregnant or non-pregnant Malawian women to explore whether HIV infection and pregnancy may act synergistically to impair cellular immunity. METHOD OF STUDY We recruited 54 pregnant and 48 non-pregnant HIV-uninfected women and 24 pregnant and 20 non-pregnant HIV-infected Malawian women. We compared peri...

Abstract Introduction As adolescent sleep duration and quality is declining, obesity rates are also increasing. Previous studies suggest a connection between behaviors obesity, with sleep’s relationship dietary intake emerging as primary mechanism. Circadian misalignment may be particularly important to consider in this context due its previously observed effects on reward processing snack sele...

BACKGROUND/PURPOSE The laparoscopic treatment of pediatric appendicitis remains controversial, particularly in complicated cases (gangrene and perforation). This study evaluates outcomes of open (OA) and laparoscopic appendectomy (LA). METHODS The 391 cases of pediatric appendectomy performed between January 1998 and January 2001 were reviewed for age, sex, weight, type and length of interven...

Takatsugu Hirokawa Hidetoshi Mukai [email protected] [email protected] 1 Computational Biology Research Center, 2-43 Aomi, Koto-ku, Tokyo 135-0064, Japan . Information and Mathematical Science Laboratory, Inc, 2-43-1, Ikebukuro, Toshima-ku, Tokyo, 171-0014, Japan 3 Nara Institute of Science and Technology, 8916-5 Takayama-cho, Ikoma-shi, Nara 630-0101, Japan . Mitsubishi Kagaku...