11 This study examined whether processing of emotional words impairs cognitive performance in acutely ill patients with 12 pediatric bipolar disorder (PBD), with or without comorbid attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), relative to 13 healthy controls (HC). Forty youths with PBD without ADHD, 20 youths with PBD and ADHD, and 29 HC (mean 14 age5 12.976 3.13) performed a Synonym Matchi...

For every v ≡ 5 (mod 6) there exists a pairwise balanced design (PBD) of order v with exactly one block of size 5 and the rest of size 3. We will refer to such a PBD as a PBD(5∗, 3). A flower in a PBD(5∗, 3) is the set of all blocks containing a given point. If (S,B) is a PBD(5∗, 3) and F is a flower, we will write F ∗ to indicate that F contains the block of size 5. The flower intersection pro...

BACKGROUND Lead-contaminated house dust is a major source of lead exposure for children in the United States. In 1999-2004, the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) collected dust lead (PbD) loading samples from the homes of children 12-60 months of age. OBJECTIVES In this study we aimed to compare national PbD levels with existing health-based standards and to identify h...

Over recent years, the application of performance-based design (PBD) has continually grown in tall buildings and other structures excited by large wind loads. PBD also become a mainstream approach to assess reduce risks rehabilitation existing structures. The significant wind-related economic losses incurred every year around world have prompted researchers develop methods reframe engineering e...

BACKGROUND The Internet and social media offer promising ways to improve the reach, efficiency, and effectiveness of recruitment efforts at a reasonable cost, but raise unique ethical dilemmas. We describe how we used social media to recruit cancer patients and family caregivers for a research study, the ethical issues we encountered, and the strategies we developed to address them. OBJECTIVE...

BACKGROUND A recent Cochrane Review found that preoperative biliary drainage (PBD) in patients with resectable pancreatic and periampullary cancer undergoing surgery for obstructive jaundice is associated with similar mortality but increased serious morbidity compared with no PBD. Despite this clinical evidence of its lack of effectiveness, PBD is still in use. We considered the economic implic...

Epithelial cells and phagocytes contain antimicrobial polypeptides that participate in innate host defense. A recently cloned porcine beta-defensin, PBD-1, was detected by Northern organ blots exclusively in the tongue epithelium. We generated recombinant PBD-1 peptide by using a baculovirus-insect cell expression system and obtained two forms (PBD-142 and PBD-138), which differed by N-terminal...

We previously demonstrated highly stable backchannel cut and back-channel passivated amorphous silicon thin-film transistors (a-Si:H TFTs) made at 300C on 2.9-inch x 2.9-inch clear plastic substrates [1]. Mechanical stress in the TFT stack causes the substrate to expand or contract, which easily results in misalignment between consecutive device layers [2,3]. Therefore we developed three selfal...

OBJECTIVE To review the literature covering the epidemiology, clinical characteristics, longitudinal course, prognosis and clues for the assessment of the Pediatrics Bipolar Disorder (PBD). METHOD A computerized search in PubMed, looking for published articles since 1980. RESULTS During the last years, the PBD diagnosis has proliferated largely, with some studies reporting incidences betwee...

BACKGROUND Pediatric bipolar disorder (PBD) has attracted increasing attentions due to its high prevalence and great influence on social functions of children and adolescents. However, the pathophysiology underlying PBD remains unclear. In the present study, the resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was used to detect abnormalities of baseline brain functions in depressed P...