Medical and Biomedical Researches

A Critique of Positive Responsibility in Computing.

May 1st, 2008
A Critique of Positive Responsibility in Computing. It has been claimed that (1) computer professionals should be held responsible for an undisclosed list of \"undesirable events\" associated with their work and (2) most if not all computer disasters can be avoided by truly understanding responsibility. Programmers, ...

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The novel 5bp deletion polymorphism in the promoter region of bovine ACRP30 gene.

May 1st, 2008
The novel 5bp deletion polymorphism in the promoter region of bovine ACRP30 gene. ACRP30 gene was located nearby the QTL affecting the marbling, ribeye muscle area and fat thickness on the BAT1 in Angus. In this study, a 5bp deletion mutation within the bovine ACRP30 gene ...

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Comparative study of interspecific genetic divergence and phylogenic analysis of genus Jatropha by R

May 1st, 2008
Comparative study of interspecific genetic divergence and phylogenic analysis of genus Jatropha by RAPD and AFLP : Genetic divergence and phylogenic analysis of genus Jatropha. Genus Jatropha with 172 species having significant economic importance belongs to the family Euphorbiaceae. There are no reports on molecular characterization ...

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Identification of the cyclin D1b mRNA variant in mouse.

May 1st, 2008
Identification of the cyclin D1b mRNA variant in mouse. Cyclin D1 plays a key regulatory role during the G1 phase of the cell cycle and its gene is amplified and over-expressed in many cancers. The cyclin D1b mRNA variant was established in human cells and recent ...

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Village chicken production in Turkey: Tokat province example.

May 1st, 2008
Village chicken production in Turkey: Tokat province example. The aim of this work was to reveal the current form of village chicken production in Tokat province of Turkey. A survey was applied to 153 randomly selected farmers of 5 subdistricts in Tokat province. The ratios of ...

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Mixing behavior of the rhombic micromixers over a wide Reynolds number range using Taguchi method an

May 1st, 2008
Mixing behavior of the rhombic micromixers over a wide Reynolds number range using Taguchi method and 3D numerical simulations. A planar micromixer with rhombic microchannels and a converging-diverging element has been systematically investigated by the Taguchi method, CFD-ACE simulations and experiments. To reduce the footprint and ...

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Parent Training: Implementation Strategies for Adventures in Parenting.

May 1st, 2008
Parent Training: Implementation Strategies for Adventures in Parenting. Adventures in Parenting, an informational booklet published by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, offers five principles that parents can use to develop a mental model of parenting: Responding, Preventing, Monitoring, Mentoring, and Modeling (RPM3). ...

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Quality of Provider-Participant Relationships and Enhancement of Adolescent Social Skills.

May 1st, 2008
Quality of Provider-Participant Relationships and Enhancement of Adolescent Social Skills. This study adds to the limited research on the potential importance of the quality of the relationship between adult prevention service providers and youth participants in enhancing social skills and strengthening prevention outcomes. Study subjects were ...

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A Health Behaviour Cross-Sectional Study of Immigrants and Non-immigrants in a Swiss Urban General-P

May 1st, 2008
A Health Behaviour Cross-Sectional Study of Immigrants and Non-immigrants in a Swiss Urban General-Practice Setting. Background Little is known about smoking, unhealthy use of alcohol, and risk behaviours for sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) in immigrants from developed and developing countries. Method We performed a cross-sectional study ...

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Kampo Medicine “Dai-Kenchu-To” Prevents Bacterial Translocation in Rats.

May 1st, 2008
Kampo Medicine \"Dai-Kenchu-To\" Prevents Bacterial Translocation in Rats. Kampo medicine \"Dai-kenchu-to\" (DKT) has been used for treatment of ileus. The aim of this study was to evaluate the role of DKT on the bacterial translocation (BT) model in rats. Rats were divided into the following four ...

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The prevalence of PALB2 germline mutations in BRCA1/BRCA2 negative Chinese women with early onset br

May 1st, 2008
The prevalence of PALB2 germline mutations in BRCA1/BRCA2 negative Chinese women with early onset breast cancer or affected relatives. PALB2 has been recently identified as breast cancer susceptibility gene in western populations. To investigate the contribution of PALB2 mutations to Chinese non-BRCA1/BRCA2 hereditary breast cancer, we ...

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Symptoms of Anxiety, Depression, and Aggression in Non-clinical Children: Relationships with Self-re

May 1st, 2008
Symptoms of Anxiety, Depression, and Aggression in Non-clinical Children: Relationships with Self-report and Performance-based Measures of Attention and Effortful Control. This study investigated the relation between the regulative trait of effortful control, and in particular attention control, and psychopathological symptoms in a sample of 207 non-clinical ...

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A Space Odyssey: Experimental Manipulation of Threat Perception and Anxiety-Related Interpretation B

May 1st, 2008
A Space Odyssey: Experimental Manipulation of Threat Perception and Anxiety-Related Interpretation Bias in Children. This study provides a first test of an experimental method, the \"space odyssey\" paradigm, that was designed to manipulate interpretation bias in children. Seventy non-clinical children aged 8-12 years first completed a ...

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Path-finding in real and simulated rats: assessing the influence of path characteristics on navigati

May 1st, 2008
Path-finding in real and simulated rats: assessing the influence of path characteristics on navigation learning. A large body of experimental evidence suggests that the hippocampal place field system is involved in reward based navigation learning in rodents. Reinforcement learning (RL) mechanisms have been used to model ...

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Prenatal Screening for Infectious Diseases: An Analysis of Disparities and Adherence to Policy in Ca

May 1st, 2008
Prenatal Screening for Infectious Diseases: An Analysis of Disparities and Adherence to Policy in California. Objectives Prenatal infectious diseases are a major cause of mortality and morbidity among newborns, but many are preventable with proper maternal screening and treatment. Methods Adherence to prenatal infectious disease screening ...

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Validation of a Method for Collecting Annual, Population-based Oral Health Data for the MCH Title V

May 1st, 2008
Validation of a Method for Collecting Annual, Population-based Oral Health Data for the MCH Title V Block Grant. Objectives This study sought to determine whether estimates of oral health-related indicators generated using a relatively small purposive sample of schools were reasonable. Methods We collected and analyzed ...

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Approaches to handling pharmacodynamic baseline responses.

May 1st, 2008
Approaches to handling pharmacodynamic baseline responses. A few approaches for handling baseline responses are available for use in pharmacokinetic (PK)-pharmacodynamic (PD) analysis. They include: (method 1-B1) estimation of the typical value and interindividual variability (IIV) of baseline in the population, (B2) inclusion of the observed baseline ...

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Drivers of Hiring Discrimination for Individuals with Disabilities.

May 1st, 2008
Drivers of Hiring Discrimination for Individuals with Disabilities. Introduction Hiring discrimination in the workplace is defined as failure or refusal by an employer to engage a qualified applicant as an employee due to the existence or consequence of disability. The specific intent of this study is ...

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Discrimination in Hiring Under the Americans with Disabilities Act: An Overview of the National EEOC

May 1st, 2008
Discrimination in Hiring Under the Americans with Disabilities Act: An Overview of the National EEOC ADA Research Project. This article is intended to provide an overview of the National EEOC ADA Research Project. It also previews four subsequent articles pertaining to the issue of hiring discrimination ...

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Nobel Prizes and the emerging virus concept.

May 1st, 2008
Nobel Prizes and the emerging virus concept. The existence of infectious agents smaller than bacteria was demonstrated already during the 1890s. After this discovery it took more than 50 years before a resilient definition of viruses could be given. There were separate developments of knowledge concerning ...

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Identification of a recombinant dengue virus type 1 with 3 recombination regions in natural populati

May 1st, 2008
Identification of a recombinant dengue virus type 1 with 3 recombination regions in natural populations in Guangdong province, China. Using recombination analysis, we identified a recombinant dengue virus type 1 strain, namely, GD23/95, with three recombination regions, located within the sequences of the prM/E junction, NS1, ...

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Seroprevalence distribution of Aichi virus among a French population in 2006-2007.

May 1st, 2008
Seroprevalence distribution of Aichi virus among a French population in 2006-2007. Little is known about the epidemiology of Aichi virus, which is a new member of the family Picornaviridae, in the genus Kobuvirus. We report here on seroprevalence in France. Sera were screened using an enzyme-linked ...

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Treatment of Tendinopathy: What Works, What Does Not, and What is on the Horizon.

May 1st, 2008
Treatment of Tendinopathy: What Works, What Does Not, and What is on the Horizon. Tendinopathy is a broad term encompassing painful conditions occurring in and around tendons in response to overuse. Recent basic science research suggests little or no inflammation is present in these conditions. Thus, ...

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Orthopaedic Surgeons Prefer to Participate in Expertise-based Randomized Trials.

May 1st, 2008
Orthopaedic Surgeons Prefer to Participate in Expertise-based Randomized Trials. Empiric data and theoretical arguments suggest an alternative randomized clinical trial (RCT) design, called expertise-based RCT, has enhanced validity, applicability, and ethical integrity compared with conventional RCT. Little is known, however, about whether physicians will participate in ...

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Bioabsorbable Glycolide Copolymer Staple-Line Reinforcement Decreases Internal Hernia Rate After Lap

May 1st, 2008
Bioabsorbable Glycolide Copolymer Staple-Line Reinforcement Decreases Internal Hernia Rate After Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass. BACKGROUND: Internal hernias (IHs) can occur after laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (LRYGBP), perhaps because of a lack of adhesion formation at the cut edges of the mesentery and a cutting through of ...

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