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Introduction Childbirth can be a very painful experience, especially vaginally. It have many complications. The obstetrical complications of caesarean section are well studied but its psychological little mentioned. Most women recover quickly after giving birth, others seem to more difficulty. Researchers attempted identify perinatal risk factors for the development post-traumatic stress disord...

The study was conducted to determine the effects of turkey (Meleagris gallopavo)egg weight on certain egg traits and hatching performance. A total of 178 turkey eggs comprising of three different egg weight groups below 60 g (G I), 61 to 69 g (G II) and above 70 g (G III) were used for this study. Average egg weight (g), egg length (cm), egg breadth (cm) and egg volume (cm3) values increased wi...

Strain SJConT, a 2-chloro-4-nitrophenol (2C4NP) degrading bacterium, was isolated from soil collected from a pesticide-contaminated site in Punjab, India. The strain, which stained Gram positive, displayed a rod-coccus life cycle, and possessed a type A3α peptidoglycan (L-Lys-L-Ala3), MK-9(H2) as the major menaquinone, anteiso-C15 and iso-C15:0 as the major cellular fatty acids, and diphosphati...

OBJECTIVE This study aimed to analyse the validity of the Thai version of the Cornell Scale for Depression in Dementia (CSDD) when using DSM-IV criteria. METHODS A cross-sectional study was carried out of 84 elderly residents in a residential care home setting in Thailand. The participants went through a comprehensive geriatric assessment which included a Mini-Mental State Examination, a Mini...

PURPOSE We aimed to evaluate the accuracy of multidetector computed tomography (MDCT) venous mapping for the localization of the right adrenal veins (RAV) in patients suffering from primary aldosteronism. METHODS MDCT scans of 75 patients with primary aldosteronism between March 2008 and November 2011 were evaluated by two readers (a junior [R1] and a senior [R2] radiologist) according to the...

foot-and-mouth disease is an important viral disease of cloven-hoofed animals. inactivated whole particle virus vaccines are still widely used in prophylactic vaccination campaigns. the choice of adjuvant is a very important factor in enhancing immune responses and the efficacy of inactivated vaccines. montanide isa 61 vg is a new ready-to-use mineral oil-based adjuvant developed by seppic inc....