results the median level of pbmcs htert mrna in survivors increased with treatment time and was significantly higher than the corresponding level in non-survivors after 14 days of treatment (p < 0.001). subgroup analyses showed that the levels of pbmcs htert mrna were remarkably higher in patients with acute-on-chronic liver failure than in those with chronic liver failure (p < 0.05). in patien...

Humans have employed an incredible variety of plant-derived substances over the millennia in order to alter consciousness and perception. Among the innumerable narcotics, analgesics, 'ordeal' drugs, and other psychoactive substances discovered and used in ritualistic contexts by cultures around the world, one class in particular stands out not only for its radical psychological effects, but als...

The AI field started out with grand dreams of human-level artificial general intelligence. During the last half-century, enthusiasm for these grand AI dreams – both within the AI profession and in society at large -has risen and fallen repeatedly, each time with a similar pattern of high hopes and media hype followed by overall disappointment. Throughout these fluctuations, though, research and...

graphs on individu al chemicals. The Monographs programe has since been expanded to include consideration of exposures to complex mixtures of chemicals (which occur, for example, in some occupations and as a result of human habits) and of exposures to other agents, such as radiation and viruses. With Supplement 6 (IARC, 1987a), the title of the series was modified from IARC Monographs on the Ev...

conclusions motivational interviewing resulted in decreased daily energy intake, anthropometric characteristics as well as augmented scores of coping and threat appraisal. results the mean age of females was 38.45 ± 9.49 years, most of them had academic degree 46.7% (n = 70), 78.7% (n = 118) were married and 60.7% (n = 91) were housewives. anova repeated measure test showed that daily energy in...

objective: this study aimed to examine the effects of haloperidol and amphetamine on human startle response modulated by emotionally-toned film clips. method: sixty participants, in two groups (one receiving haloperidol and the other receiving amphetamine) were tested using electromyography (emg) to measure eye-blink muscle (orbicular oculi) while different emotions were induced by six 2-minute...

purpose: to assess three main emotions (happy, sad and calm) by various classifiers, using appropriate feature extraction and feature selection. materials and methods: in this study a combination of power spectral density and a series of statistical features are proposed as statistical-frequency features. next, a feature selection method from pattern recognition (pr) tools is presented to extra...