Little is known on long-term outcomes in kidney transplantation. This study evaluated changes and predictors of generic and transplantation-specific health-related quality of life (HQoL) over six years in N = 102 kidney transplant survivors using the Short-form Health Survey-36 and the Transplant Effects questionnaire. Mixed models analysis was used to determine long-term outcomes. Emotional HQ...

We imaged the recently discovered bright Kuiper belt object (50000) Quaoar with the Hubble Space Telescope High Resolution Camera to directly determine its size. The point-spread function (PSF) of each of 16 images was carefully measured from a field star 1300 from Quaoar, and the expected PSF at the location of Quaoar was convolved with Quaoar’s motion vector and a model resolved disk. A least...

Explosive-type strength training may alter kinetics and neuromuscular activity during stair ascent in elderly women. This may improve functional ability. Nineteen women (69.7 ± 3.4 yr) were randomly allocated to strength training (TG; twice per wk, 12 wk) or a control group (CG). Stair ascent was assessed at self-chosen (AFV), standardized (ASV), and maximal velocity (AMV) pre- and posttraining...

relativistic cosmology Hideki Asada∗ and Masumi Kasai† Faculty of Science and Technology, Hirosaki University, Hirosaki 036-8561, Japan (April 2, 1999) We develop the Lagrangian perturbation theory in the general relativistic cosmology, which enables us to take into account the vortical effect of the dust matter. Under the Lagrangian representation of the fluid flow, the propagation equation fo...

The study hypothesis was that fasting glucose, insulin, fructosamine, C-reactive protein, and interleukin-6 decrease and adiponectin increases with daily flaxseed consumption in overweight or obese individuals with pre-diabetes. In this randomized, cross-over study overweight or obese men and postmenopausal women (n = 25) with pre-diabetes consumed 0, 13, or 26 g ground flaxseed for 12 weeks. G...

To obtain the correlation between morphologic features in the invasive fronts of colorectal cancer (CRC) and L1 cell adhesion molecule (L1CAM) expression, 275 CRCs were assessed with L1CAM immunostaining and 29 CRCs were examined for L1CAM messenger RNA (mRNA) expression. Based on immunostaining, the positive rate of L1CAM expression increased according to the grade of tumor budding (P = .0002)...

Graduate School of Environmental and Life Science, Okayama University, Okayama 700–8530, Japan (H.N., D.I., T.K., Y.A., K.K.); Institute of Plant Science and Resources, Okayama University, Kurashiki 710–0046, Japan (M.I., D.S., K.Tak.); National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Tsukuba 305–8602, Japan (H.K., H.H.); and Faculty of Humanities, Hirosaki University, Hirosaki 036–8560, Japan (K...

R. P. S. Abhijith Kumar, Sagarika Dev, Brijesh Kumar Mishra and N. Sathyamurthy* Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Mohali, Sector 81, SAS Nagar, Manauli 140 306, India Department of Chemistry, Umeå University, Umeå 90187, Sweden Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur 208 016, India Present address: MCM DAV College for Women, Sector-36, Chandigarh...