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Friday, June 27th, 2008
Total concentrations and speciation of heavy metals in municipal sludge from Changsha, Zhuzhou and Xiangtan in middle-south region of China.
The presence of heavy metals in municipal sludge restricts its use for agricultural purposes. In this paper, the bioavailability and eco-toxicity of heavy metals in municipal sludge was evaluated, taking ...
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
Effect of Aeolosoma hemprichi on excess activated sludge reduction.
In order to stabilize the growth of A. hemprichi and minimize the sludge production through biological predation, A. hemprichi was inoculated in batch and continuous experiments to investigate the growth characteristics and the effect on sludge reduction ...
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
Combined electrocoagulation and TiO(2) photoassisted treatment applied to wastewater effluents from pharmaceutical and cosmetic industries.
The treated wastewater consists of refractory materials and high organic content of hydrolyzed peptone residues from pharmaceutical factory. The combination of electrocoagulation (EC) followed by heterogeneous photocatalysis (TiO(2)) conditions was maximized. ...
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
Alterations in the glycoform of cisplatin-resistant human carcinoma cells are caused by defects in the endoplasmic reticulum-associated degradation system.
Cisplatin, cis-diamineplatinum-(II) dichloride (CDDP), is one of the most common and valuable chemotherapeutic reagents for various cancers. However, it is well known that tumor cells gain acquired ...
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
Inhibition of expression of anti-apoptotic protein Bcl-2 and induction of cell death in radioresistant human prostate adenocarcinoma cell line (PC-3) by methyl jasmonate.
Hormone refractory human prostate cancer cell lines are known to be radioresistant, a feature attributed to their ability to induce anti-apoptotic proteins of ...
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
Influence of diabetes mellitus on cervical intervertebral disc herniation.
OBJECTIVES: To establish if patients treated surgically for cervical disc disease have an increased incidence of diabetes mellitus. PATIENTS AND METHODS: We prospectively studied 66 consecutive patients who were treated surgically for cervical disc disease and compared ...
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
Does hemorrhagic presentation in cerebral arteriovenous malformations affect obliteration rate after gamma knife radiosurgery?
OBJECTIVES: Radiosurgery has been widely adopted for the treatment of cerebral AVMs. However radiosurgical treatment of patients with hemorrhagic presentation is fraught with risk of rebleed during latency period. The present study ...
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
The use of GIS for the integration of traditional and scientific knowledge in supporting artisanal fisheries management in southern Brazil.
The integration of local harvesters\' knowledge of attitudes and practices toward the resources they harvest with scientific information is essential to natural resources management. However, the ...
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
Comparison of two intraosseous infusion systems for adult emergency medical use.
INTRODUCTION: The current guidelines of the European Resuscitation Council (ERC) stipulate that an intraosseous access should be placed if establishing a peripheral venous access for cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) would involve delays. The aim of this ...
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
Survival rate and factors associated with 1-month survival of witnessed out-of-hospital cardiac arrest of cardiac origin with ventricular fibrillation and pulseless ventricular tachycardia: The Utstein Osaka project.
OBJECTIVE: We reassessed 1-month survival of patients with witnessed out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) of cardiac origin with ventricular fibrillation ...
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
Post-resuscitation hemodynamics and relationship to the duration of ventricular fibrillation.
OBJECTIVE: We have observed consistent hemodynamic patterns after restoration of spontaneous circulation (ROSC) after ventricular fibrillation (VF) cardiac arrest. We sought to characterize the time-course of these patterns, and to determine whether these differed based on ...
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
Monitoring dental erosion by colour measurement: An in vitro study.
OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to develop a method to monitor dental erosion by evaluation of the colour change of teeth as a function of enamel loss, and to evaluate the reproducibility of the ...
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
Effect of fluoride containing bleaching agents on enamel surface properties.
OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the effects of fluoridated bleaching agents and post-bleaching fluoridation treatment on the whitening efficiency and microhardness of bovine enamel. METHODS: Twenty five freshly extracted bovine incisors were cut into halves, embedded and then ...
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
The effects of omega-3 fatty acids monotherapy in Alzheimer\'s disease and mild cognitive impairment: A preliminary randomized double-blind placebo-controlled study.
A 24-week, randomized, double-blind placebo-controlled study was carried out to test the feasibility of using omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) monotherapy in people with cognitive impairment ...
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
Acute antipyschotic efficacy and side effects in schizophrenia: Association with serotonin transporter promoter genotypes.
BACKGROUND: The serotonin transporter (5-HTT) plays an important role in serotonergic neurotransmission. In the present study, we investigated the effects of the 44 bp insertion/deletion polymorphism in the promoter region of 5-HTT ...
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
BCG vaccination and WHO\'s global strategy for tuberculosis control 1948-1983.
Mass vaccination with BCG against tuberculosis has been one of the major health interventions of WHO since the Second World War. This article traces the history of the controversial BCG vaccine from its adoption by WHO ...
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
Is the duration of poverty and unemployment a risk factor for heavy drinking?
Research on the influence of socioeconomic status (SES) on heavy drinking of alcohol has provided contradictory findings. A limitation of the literature is that studies have primarily measured SES at one point in ...
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
Caring for independent lives: Geographies of caring for young adults with intellectual disabilities.
This paper engages with the emerging disciplinary clash between \'care\' and \'independence\' within disability studies by examining the geography of home care for young adults with intellectual disabilities. The care system as a ...
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
Cancer survival in New Zealand: Ethnic, social and geographical inequalities.
This study investigated the combined effects of ethnicity, deprivation and geographical access to health services on the likelihood of survival from a range of common cancers in New Zealand. Individual cancer registry records of 99,062 cases ...
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
Individual factors explain neighbourhood variations in accidents to children under 5 years of age.
Previous studies have identified possible neighbourhood-level influences on the risk of injuries to preschool children, but none have had sufficient data at both household and area level to explain these neighbourhood effects. ...
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
Racial disparity in bacterial vaginosis: the role of socioeconomic status, psychosocial stress, and neighborhood characteristics, and possible implications for preterm birth.
Racial disparity in preterm birth is one of the most salient, yet least well-understood health disparities in the United States. The preterm birth disparity may ...
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
The social construction of surrogacy research: An anthropological critique of the psychosocial scholarship on surrogate motherhood.
This article presents a critical appraisal of the psychosocial empirical research on surrogate mothers, their motivations for entering into surrogacy agreements and the outcome of their participation. I apply a ...
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
\'Doing\' public health and \'making\' public health practitioners: Putting policy into practice in \'Starting Well\'
Public health policy has arguably taken a new direction in the UK since 1997. This is typified by a review of the public health workforce. A key profession within this workforce ...
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
Prior infection with murine cytomegalovirus (MCMV) limits the immunocontraceptive effects of an MCMV vector expressing the mouse zona-pellucida-3 protein.
We have developed a murine cytomegalovirus (MCMV)-vectored vaccine expressing the mouse zona-pellucida-3 gene (rMCMV-ZP3), which successfully induces infertility in experimentally inoculated laboratory or wild-derived mice. However, the ...
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
Dogs with canine counterpart of Alzheimer\'s disease lose noradrenergic neurons.
Degeneration of noradrenergic neurons in the locus ceruleus is a well-described feature of Alzheimer\'s disease (AD). In spite of extensive utilization of the dog as a model for human degenerative diseases, there is no data on ...
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