We determined the number of days of step activity monitoring required to establish stable measures of walking activity in adults with incomplete spinal cord injury (iSCI). Eleven individuals with iSCI (mean age 49 +/- 14 years) wore a StepWatch Activity Monitor during waking hours for 7 consecutive days. We used generalizability theory to identify sources of variance in daily step counts and de...

OBJECTIVE To transculturally adapt the Spanish version of Pregnancy Physical Activity Questionnaire (PPAQ) analyzing its psychometric properties. METHODS The PPAQ was transculturally adapted into Spanish. Test-retest reliability was evaluated in a subsample of 109 pregnant women. The validity was evaluated in a sample of 208 pregnant women who answered the questionnaire and wore the multi-sen...

AIM To investigate whether increased YKL-40 levels positively correlate with graft-vs-host disease (cGVHD) activity and severity and if YKL-40 could serve as a disease biomarker. METHODS This case-control study was conducted at the University Hospital Centre Zagreb from July 2013 to October 2015. 56 patients treated with hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) were included: 35 patient...

5.2 Thermodynamic Considerations Solubilities and Aqueous Activity Coefficients of Organic Liquids Solubilities and Aqueous Activity Coefficients of Organic Solids Solubilities and Aqueous Activity Coefficients of Organic Gases Illustrative Example 5.1 : Deriving Liquid Aqueous Solubilities, Aqueous Activity CoefJicients, and Excess Free Energies in Aqueous Solution from Experimental Solubility...

AIM The aim of this study was to determine the impact of CYP2C19 and ABCB1 gene polymorphisms and CYP3A4 isoenzyme activity on stent implantation complications among patients with an acute coronary syndrome (ACS) who underwent percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). PATIENTS AND METHODS Seventy-six patients (median age 63, range 37-91 years) with an ACS who underwent PCI were screened for C...

This pilot study was designed to determine whether the shear elastic modulus measured using supersonic shear imaging can be used to accurately estimate muscle activity level. Using direct visual feedback of torque, six healthy subjects were asked to perform two incremental isometric elbow flexions, consisting of linear torque ramps of 30 s from 0 to 40% of maximal voluntary contraction. Both el...

Background: In the high concentration of salts, kosmotropic and chaotropic effects became clear and these effects are related with Viscosity B-coefficient. Methods: In present study, the effects of high concentration of amino acid salts (1-3M) on yeast alcohol dehydrogenase was assessed and the effects of Na.Aspartate, Na.Glutamate. HCl.Glycinate, HCl.Lysinate and HCl.Lysinate on stability and ...

A series of 3and 4-substituted 7-hydroxycoumarins analogues were analyzed for structure–activity relationship using sphere exclusion algorithm method. The QSAR studies were analyzed and the structural features contributing to the enhancement of activity were identified. 2D-QSAR statistically significant model with coefficient of determination (r2) of 0.8291 and cross validated correlation coeff...

OBJECTIVE Reporting the Physical Activity Questionnaire for school children's (PAQ-C) test-retest reliability and internal consistency. METHODS This was a descriptive study of 100 school-aged children aged 9 to 11 years old attending a school in Cartagena, Colombia. The sample was randomly selected. The PAQ-C was given twice, one week apart, after the informed consent forms had been signing b...