Sexual and Reproductive Health day was marked on February 12, and highlighted the burden of sexually transmitted infections among Canadians. The reported rates of notifiable sexually transmitted infections (STIs), such as chlamydia and gonorrhea, are highest among youth 15 to 24 years old.1-3 This burden impacts youth’s sexual and reproductive health. “Youth,” however, are comprised of diverse ...

Harmonic maps are natural generalizations of harmonic functions and are critical points of the energy functional defined on the space of maps between two Riemannian manifolds. The Liouville type properties for harmonic maps have been studied extensively in the past years (Cf. [Ch], [C], [EL1], [EL2], [ES], [H], [HJW], [J], [SY], [S], [Y1], etc.). In 1975, Yau [Y1] proved that any harmonic funct...

Decolorization of sunset yellow dye (SY) in an aqueous solution was investigated by Fenton reaction using H2O2/Fe 2+ system. Different parameters controlling the degradation efficiency as pH and H2O2 and Fe 2+ concentrations were evaluated. The optimal operational conditions were found to be [Fe] = 2.55x10 mmol, [H2O2] = 0.2425 mmol at pH 2.7. The study of the Kinetics of decolorization indicat...

Safflower yellow (SY) is the safflower extract and is the one of traditional Chinese medicine. The aim of the present work was to investigate the effect of SY on spinal cord ischemia reperfusion injury (SCIRI) in rabbits. The models of spinal cord ischemia reperfusion (SI/R) were constructed, and the degree of the post-ischemic injury was assessed by means of the neurological deficit scores and...

The status of coupling constant unification in the standard model and its supersymmetric extension are discussed. Uncertainties associated with the input coupling constants, m t , threshold corrections at the low and high scales, and possible nonrenormalizable operators are parametrized and estimated. A simple parametrization of a general supersymmetric new particle spectrum is given. It is sho...

We systematically construct gauge-mediated supersymmetry(SUSY)-breaking models with direct transmission of SUSY-breaking effects to the standard-model sector. We obtain a natural model with the gravitino mass m 3/2 smaller than 1 keV as required from the standard cosmology. If all Yukawa coupling constants are of order one, the SUSY-breaking scale m SU SY transmitted into the standard-model sec...

Introduction. The purpose of this study was to examine the differences in temperament between So-Yang (SY) and So-Eum (SE) Sasang types using Behavioral Inhibition System/Behavioral Activation System (BIS/BAS) scale to elucidate the biopsychological mechanism underlying the Sasang typology, a traditional Korean personalized medicine. Methods. 248 university students were categorized into three ...

Turions play an important role in the survival strategy of the duckweed Spirodela polyrhiza. Therefore, factors influencing the formation of these survival organs were studied. Phosphate deficiency is the main natural factor inducing turion formation and the specific turion yield (SY), i.e. the number of turions formed per frond, varied widely for five different clones from different climate zo...