OBJECTIVE To determine the knowledge, attitudes, and interest in providing medical abortion reported by family physicians and residents in rural and urban settings. DESIGN A self-administered mailed survey using the modified Dillman method. SETTING Hamilton and Thunder Bay County in Ontario. PARTICIPANTS Family medicine residents (n = 93) and physicians (n = 234) in predominantly urban (H...

Pennsylvania generates over 50,000 m of spent mushroom substrate (SMS) annually due to production of the white button mushroom Agaricus bisporus (Chong and Hamersma 1997). Improper disposal of this volume of organic waste may cause environmental problems such as air, water and soil pollution. Considering that its major ingredients include incompletely composted straw, hay, manure, gypsum and po...

El presente estudio tiene por objetivo examinar la percepción de competencia profesional del alumnado que cursa titulaciones universitarias ámbito Actividad Física y el Deporte (AFD) participante en proyectos Aprendizaje-Servicio Universitario (ApSU), función su sexo edad, así como perfil colectivo receptor dichos proyectos. En participaron 211 estudiantes (alumnos=88, alumnas=123) siete univer...

Bulk Rare Earth–Ba–Cuprate [(RE)BCO] superconductors fabricated in the form of large single grains consisting a REBa 2 Cu xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">3 O xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">7- δ (RE-123) matrix and RE BaCuO xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xl...

An additional chromatographic peak was observed in plasma samples of patients receiving NX 211, a liposomal formulation of the topoisomerase I inhibitor lurtotecan. We have isolated and purified this product by sequential solid-phase extractions, and we report its structure and cytotoxicity relative to lurtotecan and related agents. Nuclear magnetic resonance data indicate that cleavage of the ...

The role of anti-muscle antibodies (AMA) in the diagnosis of thymoma in patients with myasthenia gravis (MG) is evaluated. We compared ELISA and Western blot assay for antibodies to citric acid muscle extract (a-CAE) with an immunofluorescence assay (IF). Sera from 234 selected MG patients and 123 controls were tested. There was no essential difference between ELISA and IF. Western blot was sup...

In a prospective cohort of 41,836 Iowa women aged 55-69 years with 13 years of follow-up from 1986 through 1998, the authors examined the association between cigarette smoking history and three common histologic subtypes of lung cancer (123 small cell, 115 squamous cell, and 234 adenocarcinoma). Using Cox proportional hazards and additive Poisson regression analysis, they estimated four epidemi...