The objective of this study was to identify muscles from cow populations that are equivalent or may possibly be made equivalent to muscles from A-maturity, Select-grade cattle in terms of chemical, compositional, and color characteristics. Objective color, expressible moisture, proximate composition, pH, heme iron concentration, and total collagen content were determined for 9 muscles (M. glute...

The house fly, Musca domestica L., is an important ectoparasite with the ability to develop resistance to insecticides used for their control. Thiamethoxam, a neonicotinoid, is a relatively new insecticide and effectively used against house flies with a few reports of resistance around the globe. To understand the status of resistance to thiamethoxam, eight adult house fly strains were evaluate...

BACKGROUND A variety of biomarkers have been investigated on their values to predict cardiovascular outcomes, such as high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hs-CRP), fibrinogen, troponin-I (TnI), and soluble P-selectin (sP-sel). By a design of head-to-head comparison, this study sought to figure out the long-term prognostic values of these parameters in patients hospitalized with suspected corona...

Agile Earth observation missions continuously require a large amount of planning during the spacecraft’s observations. Beside priorities of the observation sites, especially the agility constraints of the satellite are important to be taken into account during the planning process. This is due to the body-fixed instrument’s line of sight, requiring the whole satellite to point to the observatio...

INTRODUCTION To analyze factors associated with clinical observation, pharmacotherapy and referral on discharge of patients with anxiety disorder (AD) seeking care at a psychiatric emergency unit. METHOD A total of 5003 consecutive visits were reviewed over a three-year period at a psychiatric emergency service in a tertiary university hospital. Data collected included sociodemographic and cl...

Introduction Over the years, the use of computer has become an integral part of education and its impact on teaching and learning is widely accepted (Mitra et al, 2000). The successful integration of computers in educational environments depends, to a great extent, on students’ attitudes towards them (Palaigeorgiou, Siozos, Konstantakis & Tsoukalas, 2005). Computer attitude has been defined as ...

departments. Even then, we doubt that the quality of data gleaned would justify the cost incurred. We fail to see that the quality of information gathered by using the point-radius method would be an improvement over our suggestion. In our original article, we suggested using sets of standardized questions that are tailored to a given vector-borne disease. We also indicated that a critical mini...

Among different factors contributing to foreign language learning, affective variables such as attitudes, orientations, motivation, and anxiety are of paramount importance. Among these various factors, learners' attitude towards language learning is considered as one of the key factors in motivating the learners to learn that language. This studyexamined a sample of Iranian medical students' at...

OBJECTIVE To examine the relationship between a 1-week pediatric summer camping program and children's attitudes toward their physical disabilities and/or medical conditions and levels of trait anxiety. METHOD The Child Attitude Toward Illness Scale (CATIS; Austin & Huberty, 1993) and the trait scale of the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory for Children (STAIC; Spielberger, 1973) were given to 90...