Objectives Changes in reported lifetime prevalence of psychological abuse, controlling behaviours and economic abuse between 2003 2019, past 12-month by an intimate partner were examined. Design Cross-sectional analysis. Setting participants Data came from two surveys family violence New Zealand, conducted 2019. Respondents ever partnered women aged 18–64 years old (2003 n=2673; 2019 n=935). Ma...

The phylum arthropoda comprises four classes: myriapoda, crustacea, insecta and chelicerata. The monophyly or polyphyly of the arthropoda has been questioned, as has the relationship of the individual classes to each other. The principle difficulty involves deciding which of the morphological similarities that unite these groups are the result of close evolutionary relationships and which repre...

The  present  study  was  conducted  to  investigate  the  relationship  among  three  important  teacher variables and students’ L2 achievement. To this end, 105 high school EFL teachers from Shiraz and Hamadan were asked to fill out three sets of instruments: the reflective teaching instrument, (Akbari, Behzadpour  &  Dadvand,  2010),  the  Attitudes  and  Beliefs  on  Classroom  Control  Inv...

Background and Objectives. Ischemic stroke (IS) is one of the leading causes disability, morbidity, mortality worldwide. The goal study was to evaluate patient demographics, characteristics, intrahospital among different ischemic subtypes. Materials Methods. A retrospective observational non-randomized conducted, including only patients, admitted Pauls Stradins Clinical university hospital, Rig...

Abstract Purpose Ureteroscopy is an efficient endoscopic minimally invasive technique for the diagnosis and treatment of upper tract urothelial carcinoma. During ureteroscopy, automatic segmentation hollow lumen primary importance, since it indicates path that endoscope should follow. In order to obtain accurate lumen, this paper presents method based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Me...

BACKGROUND Cystic fibrosis (CF) is characterized by acute pulmonary exacerbations (APE). The CF nasal airway exhibits a similar ion transport defect as the lung, and colonization, infection, and inflammation within the nasal passages are common among CF patients. Nasal lavage fluid (NLF) is a minimally invasive means to collect upper airway samples. METHODS We collected NLF at the onset and r...

Ciprofloxacin is subject to efflux from J774 macrophages through a multidrug resistance-related protein-like transporter (J. M. Michot, F. Van Bambeke, M. P. Mingeot-Leclercq, and P. M. Tulkens, Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. 48:2673-2682, 2004). Here, we compare ciprofloxacin to levofloxacin, garenoxacin, and moxifloxacin for transport. At 4 mg/liter, an apparent steady state in accumulation wa...

The Domain Name System's wire protocol includes a number of fixed fields whose range has been or soon will be exhausted and does not allow requestors to advertise their capabilities to responders. This document describes backward-compatible mechanisms for allowing the protocol to grow. This document updates the Extension Mechanisms for DNS (EDNS(0)) specification (and obsoletes RFC 2671) based ...

BACKGROUND Lipoprotein-associated phospholipase A(2) (Lp-PLA(2)) is a proinflammatory enzyme bound to low-density lipoprotein cholesterol and other circulating lipoproteins. Two measures of Lp-PLA(2), mass and activity, are associated with increased cardiovascular risk. Data are sparse regarding genetic determinants of Lp-PLA(2) mass and activity, and no prior data are available addressing gene...