AIMS/INTRODUCTION Previous studies have suggested a possible relationship between type 2 diabetes mellitus susceptibility loci and diabetic complications. The present study aimed to investigate the associations between type 2 diabetes mellitus loci with peripheral nerve function in a Chinese population with type 2 diabetes mellitus. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 1,900 type 2 diabetes melli...

PURPOSE To evaluate the feasibility and reliability of a novel stiffness assessment tool implemented in the driven gait orthosis Paediatric Lokomat; to investigate the influence of single robotic-assisted gait training (RAGT) on muscle stiffness in children with cerebral palsy (CP). METHODS Ten children with spastic CP conducted a single standard RAGT session and stiffness was assessed before...

Spontaneous fluctuations in blood oxygenation level-dependent (BOLD) images are the basis of resting-state fMRI and frequently used for functional connectivity studies. However, there may be intrinsic information in the amplitudes of these fluctuations. We investigated the possibility of using the amplitude of spontaneous BOLD signal fluctuations as a biomarker for cerebral vasomotor reactivity...

Soil CO2 flux can contribute as much as 60–80% of total ecosystem respiration in forests. Although considerable research has focused on quantifying this flux during the growing season, comparatively little effort has focused on non-growing season fluxes. We measured soil CO2 efflux through snow in 50 and 300 year old subalpine forest stands near Fraser CO. Our objectives were to quantify season...

In clinical practice, few data exist on the feasibility of performing reliable shear wave elastography (SWE) and ultrasonography (US) measurements in spastic muscles children with cerebral palsy (CP). Ten unilateral CP took part SWE US assessment tibialis anterior medialis gastrocnemius during two sessions separated by a 1-wk interval. Intra- inter-investigator reliability modulus (µ) muscle th...

هدف: هدف از این پژوهش بررسی واسطه‌­ای راهبردهای سازش نایافته تنظیم شناختی هیجان در رابطه باورهای فراشناختی با اضطراب امتحان بود. روش: روش حاضر توصیفی و نوع همبستگی جامعه آماری را کلیه دانش‌­آموزان پسر دوره دوم متوسطه شهر تهران سال تحصیلی 1401-1400 تشکیل دادند که تعداد 456 نفر به نمونه‏‌گیری دسترس انتخاب شرکت کردند. ابزارها شامل سیاهه ابوالقاسمی همکاران (1375)، پرسشنامه باکو دیگران (2009)، فرم ک...

We estimated reader-dependent variability of region of interest (ROI) analysis and evaluated its impact on preclinical quantitative molecular imaging. To estimate reader variability, we used five independent image datasets acquired each using microPET and multispectral fluorescence imaging (MSFI). We also selected ten experienced researchers who utilize molecular imaging in the same environment...