Bachground: Paraquat (PQ) intoxication manifests with pulmonary edema and fibrosis, heart failure, hepatic failure, and sometimes convulsions. In severe cases, the patients may die within the early hours. At best conditions, the conventional therapeutic methods can only save less than 50% of the victims of intentional PQ intoxication. The aim of this study was to evaluate the outcome of new t...

We discuss a possibility that superconformal dynamics induces the emergence of global U(1)PQ symmetry to solve strong CP problem through axion. Fields spontaneously breaking couple new quarks charged under ordinary color SU(3)C and SU(N) gauge group. The theory flows into an IR fixed point where fields hold large anomalous dimension leading suppression U(1)PQ-violating higher dimensional operat...

Revised reinforcement sensitivity theory (r-RST) of personality is a major neuropsychological motivation, emotion, and personality. To measure the specific components r-RST, Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory Personality Questionnaire (RST-PQ; Corr & Cooper(Psychological Assessment 28(11), 1427–1400, 2016) has been developed. The current study examined measurement (configural, metric, scalar, res...

Pharmacokinetic differences between piperaquine (PQ) base and PQ tetraphosphate were investigated in 34 Papua New Guinean children aged 5 to 10 years treated for uncomplicated malaria with artemisinin-PQ (ART-PQ) base or dihydroartemisinin-PQ (DHA-PQ) tetraphosphate. Twelve children received ART-PQ base (two daily doses of 3 mg of ART and 18 mg of PQ base as granules/kg of body weight) as recom...

A deterministic inventory model with two levels of storage (own warehouse and rented warehouse) with non-instantaneous deteriorating items is studied. The supplier offers the retailer a trade credit period to settle the amount. Different scenarios based on the deterioration and the trade credit period have been considered. In this article, we have framed two models considering single warehouse ...

Objective(s): The effects of PPAR-γ agonist alone and in combination with carvacrol and Zataria multiflora on inhaled paraquat (PQ) induced-systemic inflammation and oxidative stress were examined. Materials and Methods: Control group exposed to normal saline aerosol, one group exposed to 54 mg/m3 PQ aerosol and four groups exposed to PQ...

In order to investigate the effect of hemoperfusion (HP) on the clearance rate of paraquat (PQ) and develop a clearance model, 41 PQ-poisoned patients who acquired acute PQ intoxication received HP treatment. PQ concentrations were determined by high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). According to initial PQ concentration, study subjects were divided into two groups: Low-PQ group (0.05-1...

Paraquat (PQ) is an herbicide used extensively in agriculture. This agent is also suspected to be a risk factor for Parkinson's disease (PD) by harming nigro-striatal dopamine neurons. There is likely, genetic-based, individual variability in susceptibility to PQ neurotoxicity related PD. In this study, we measured the delivery of PQ to the brain after three weekly injections of PQ at 5 mg kg(-...

The previous mapping lecture demonstrated how, in the absence of errors, STS mapping could be solved efficiently via a reduction to a well-known abstract problem called the consecutive-ones problem. The solution made use of a data structure called a PQ-tree which eloquently represents all possible orderings of the STS sites that are consistent with the data. The flaw in this approach, however, ...

background: paraquat (pq) poisoning is highly fatal; and therefore, clinicians should be familiar with prompt approach to and poor prognostic features of this type of poisoning. hence, in this study, clinical profile, management and outcome of a series of patients with pq poisoning are presented. methods: a retrospective review of medical records of patients poisoned with pq who were treated at...