This study was conducted to evaluate the effects of guided imagery on stress and fatigue in patients undergoing radioactive iodine therapy after thyroidectomy in Korea. Participants were 84 individuals (44 for experimental group and 40 for control group) with thyroid cancer. The experimental group listened to a guided imagery CD once a day for 4 weeks. Global Assessment of Recent Stress and Rev...

Given a Lévy process X with Lévy measure ν, conditions ensuring that limt→0 1t E f(Xt) = ∫ f(x)ν(dx) are given. The moment functions f considered here can be unbounded as well as satisfy simpler regularity conditions than those considered in some previous works. Also, the rate of convergence is determined when f vanishes in a neighborhood of the origin and satisfies other regularity conditions ...

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OBJECTIVE The objective of the study was to observe the effect of controlled breathing exercises including Sudarshan Kriya (SK) and Prana-Yoga (PY) on the psycho-physiological status. METHODS The study group included 60 healthy volunteers (M:30, F:30) in the age group of 18 to 30 years (21.3 ± 3.2 yrs), randomly divided in to three groups of 20 subjects each--(1) The SK group (2) the PY group...

We show how an incompressible Seifert surface F for a knot K in S can be used to create an essential lamination LF in the complement of each of an in nite class of knots associated to F . This lamination is persistent for these knots; it remains essential under all non-trivial Dehn llings of the knot complement. This implies a very strong form of Property P for each of these knots.

A feeding trial was carried out to determine the effects of chromium methionine (Cr-Met) chelate and forage level over two years, 1(st) fattening and 2(nd) fattening period on growth parameters, carcass characteristics and blood metabolites of 46 Korean native (Hanwoo, Bos Taurus, BW = 183 ± 44 kg) steers. Treatments were: 1) Steers in the low forage (LF) group were fed diets that consisted of ...

1 I n t r o d u c t i o n This is a fol low-up o f our paper [3], where we establish that l i~(l _ s) f~ fn lf(x) f(Y)lPd~ d p ~ yld-77;~p y ~ IIVSIIL~(.), for any p E [1, oo), where f~ is a smooth bounded domain in lRd,d > 1. On the other hand, if 0 < s < 1, p > 1 and sp < d, the Sobolev inequality for fractional Sobolev spaces (see, e.g., [1], Theorem 7.57 or [6], Sect ion 3.3) asserts that (...

AVR1674 and AVR1675 are monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) that bind with high specificity to anthrax toxin lethal factor (LF) and lethal toxin (LTx). These mAbs have been used as pivotal reagents to develop anthrax toxin detection tests using mass spectrometry. The mAbs were demonstrated to bind LF with good affinity (KD 10−7–10−9 M) and to enhance LF-mediated cleavage of synthetic peptide substrate...

INTRODUCTION Cardiovascular events are the major cause of death in patients with chronic renal failure. About half of dialysis patients because of reduced phosphorus clearance have hyperphosphatemia. Hyperphosphatemia and following secondary hyperparathyroidism lead to some cardiovascular changes. Hemodialysis (HD) partly removes phosphorus during each dialysis session. OBJECTIVES Presented s...

The presence of se lf-incompatibility was tested in Centroma dia pun gens subsp. laevis and (he gene tic basis of the se lf-incompatib ility respon se was ex plored using crossing stud ies. We performed full d iallel c ross ing experiments amo ng 10 ind ividuals from one natural population and four F, families . We observed a strong se lfinco mpaubility resp onse in a ll indi viduals tested . w...