OBJECTIVE Despite research suggesting that parental involvement can affect alcohol involvement among adolescents, few studies have focused on parent-based alcohol prevention strategies among college undergraduates. We report the results of a randomized trial of a parent-based intervention (PBI) in a sample of college freshmen. METHOD Across two cohorts, 724 incoming freshman-parent dyads comp...

Multiple and self-inflicted penetrating brain injuries (PBI) rare. PBI are rare. We report the case of multiple self-inflicted PBI in a 45 year old man caused by a nail gun. He was admitted to after shooting four nails into his head and one into his thorax. We review the literature on the topic and describe how this case was successfully managed in our hospital.

PURPOSE To compare non-target tissue (including left-anterior-descending coronary-artery (LAD)) dosimetry of prone versus supine whole (WBI) and partial-breast irradiation (PBI). METHODS AND MATERIALS Sixty-five post-lumpectomy breast cancer patients underwent CT-imaging supine and prone. On each dataset, the whole-breast clinical-target-volume (WB-CTV), partial-breast CTV (tumour-bed + 15 mm...

An S-heterocyclic annelated perylene bisimide (PBI) has been prepared from readily available tetrachloro-PBI by a one-step palladium-catalyzed reaction; when co-crystallized with pyrene it gives a unique columnar arrangement of 1 : 2 complexes.

BACKGROUND Designing effective incentive systems for village health workers (VHWs) represents a longstanding policy issue with substantial impact on the success and sustainability of VHW programs. Using performance-based incentives (PBI) for VHWs is an approach that has been proposed and implemented in some programs, but has not received adequate review and evaluation in the peer-reviewed liter...

The Panic Belief Inventory (PBI) was developed to assess beliefs that increase the likelihood of catastrophic reactions to physical and emotional experiences in panic disorder. In the first stage of scale development, 197 panic disorder patients completed the PBI and standard self-report inventories of psychiatric symptomatology. An exploratory factor analysis yielded a 4-factor solution from w...

[1] Pi2 pulsations during the intervals of extremely quiet geomagnetic conditions (Kp = 0) have been reported by Sutcliffe and Lyons [2002]. These authors observed that several Pi2 bursts occurred simultaneously at high (magnetic latitude = 71 ) and low (42 ) latitudes during the absence of magnetospheric substorms and found that the bursts are strongly correlated with poleward boundary intensi...

THERE ARE A NUMBER OF VARIATIONS in the methods described in the literature for the procedure by incineration for the determination of protein bound iodine (PBI) (1, 2). Most of these are simple variations of the basic ones described earlier in the literature. After incineration there remains an insoluble portion when the residue is treated with 2N HC1, 7N 112S04, and H20. It appears to be unbu...

Biscarbazole-loaded perylene bisimide (PBI) dye micelles in water afforded a fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET)-based white-light emitting nano luminary system with biscarbazoles as energy donors and PBI micelles as acceptors.