BACKGROUND No standardised tools for assessing the quality of specialist mental health supported accommodation services exist. To address this, we adapted the Quality Indicator for Rehabilitative care-QuIRC-that was originally developed to assess the quality of longer term inpatient and community based mental health facilities. The QuIRC, which is completed by the service manager and gives rati...

This study proposes a general framework for structural motif discovery. The framework is based on a modular design in which the system components can be modified or replaced independently to increase its applicability to various studies. It is a two-stage approach that first converts protein 3D structures into structural alphabet sequences, and then applies a sequence motif-finding tool to thes...

A brief description is given of Perkinsiella saccharicida Kirk. as a pest of sugarcane. Population fluctuations, varietal susceptibility, ovipositional habits, natural control, alternate host plants, alary polymorphism, light attraction and the effect on leafhoppers of trash burning are discussed.

There is a paucity of information on the molecular biology of aging processes in the brain. We have used biomarkers of aging (SA β-Gal, p16Ink4a, Sirt5, Sirt6, and Sirt7) to demonstrate the presence of an accelerated aging phenotype across different brain regions in the AS/AGU rat, a spontaneous Parkinsonian mutant of PKCγ derived from a parental AS strain. P16INK4a expression was significantly...

Introduction: La baisse de la densité minérale osseuse représente la principale manifestation osseuse décrite au cours des maladies inflammatoires chroniques de l'intestin. En Tunisie, très peu d'études ont rapportés sa prévalence et ses facteurs de risque. Le but de ce travail était de déterminer la prévalence de la perte osseuse au cours des maladies inflammatoires chroniques de l'intestin, e...

Formy ťažkých kovov a ich vplyv na kvalitu vody v rieke Hornád Problém nahromadenia ťažkých kovov v životnom prostredí je jedným z najväčších problémov súčastnosti. Najviac ťažkých kovov pochádzajúcich z antropogénnej činnosti sa hromadí vo vodnom systéme, vďaka tomu sa ťažké kovy dostávajú cez potravinový reťazec do ľudského organizmu, pre ktorý sú vo zvýšených koncentráciách toxické. Z hľadis...

The single-cell green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii harbors twelve truncated hemoglobins (Cr-TrHbs). Cr-TrHb1-1 and Cr-TrHb1-8 have been postulated to be parts of the nitrogen assimilation pathway, and of a NO-dependent signaling pathway, respectively. Here, spectroscopic and reactivity properties of Cr-TrHb1-1, Cr-TrHb1-2, and Cr-TrHb1-4, all belonging to clsss 1 (previously known as group N ...

Iodide-containing nitro-Grela-type catalysts have been synthesized and applied to ring closing metathesis (RCM) and cross metathesis (CM) reactions. These new catalysts have exhibited improved efficiency in the transformation of sterically, non-demanding alkenes. Additional steric hindrance in the vicinity of ruthenium related to the presence of iodides ensures enhanced catalyst stability. The ...

by Ian Davidson and Bruce Davies George R. Brown, eminent engineer and retired chairman of the Rice Board of Trustees, died Sa turday following a brief illness at age 84. B r o w n ' s c o n t r i b u t i o n s to i n d u s t r y , e d u c a t i o n a n d p h i l a n t h r o p y a r e a b u n d a n t . Brown entered Rice in 1917 with the intention of becoming a doctor , but he left the followin...

Members of the insulin family of hormones are generally not regarded as gender-specific, although there is sporadic evidence for the possible involvement of insulin pathways in sexual differentiation. In crustaceans, sexual differentiation is controlled by the androgenic gland (AG), an organ unique to males. To date, attempts to identify active AG factors in decapods through either classical pu...