Twinning of crystals causes overlapping of two or more reciprocal lattice points, and hence structure amplitudes for a single crystalline domain are hardly obtained from X-ray diffraction intensities. MD-2 protein forms a stable complex with Toll-like receptor 4 and recognizes bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS). Excessive immune responses activated by LPS cause septic shocks. Saccharide-trimmed...

This research examined the adaptation, validity and reliability of 3 × 2 Achievement Goal Questionnaire (Elliot, Murayama, & Pekrun, 2011) in a sample Argentine university students. A direct translation into Spanish was made its equivalence analyzed bilingual sample. The correlations between original translated versions scales were moderate high (.53 to .93). In two instances, evidence fact...

Drawing from self-determination theory (SDT; Deci & Ryan, 1985; Ryan & Deci, 2002), the aim of the study was to adapt and validate a Spanish version of the Psychological Need Thwarting Scale (PNTS; Bartholomew, Ntoumanis, Ryan, & Thørgersen-Ntoumani, 2011) in the educational domain. Psychological need thwarting and burnout were assessed in 619 physical education teachers from several high schoo...

In this study, effects of pH and salinity on growth and bloom of Dunaliella sp. algae were investigated. The algae were reared in different pH (6.0, 6.8, 7.0, 7.3, 7.6, 8.0, 8.6, 9.0, 9.7 and 11.0) and salinities (20.0, 31.6, 50.1, 79.4, 117.1, 125.9 and 200.0 ppt) at Inland Aquaculture Research Institute Phycolab during 2011. After 96 h, the algae reared in 50ppt salinity and below that had ne...

*Correspondence: [email protected] Department of Mathematics and Applied Physics, Rzeszów University of Technology, P.O. Box 85, Rzeszów, Poland Abstract We present an analog of Banach’s fixed point theorem for CJM contractions in preordered metric spaces. These results substantially extend theorems of Ran and Reurings’ (Proc. Am. Math. Soc. 132(5): 1435-1443, 2003) and Nieto and Rodríguez-Ló...

SUMMARY Our gastrointestinal tract is colonized by trillions of microbes. There growing recognition that commensal bacteria can promote the development colorectal adenomas and cancer. For example, bacterial plaques are strongly associated with in familial adenomatous polyposis (Science 2018;359:592-597), fusobacterium cancer liver metastasis.(Science 2017;358:1443-1448)

BACKGROUND The objective is to study the medium-term results of angioplasty and stenting in the femoro-popliteal sector in patients with critical limb ischemia (CLI), and identify angiographic predictive factors of primary patency. PATIENTS AND METHODS Retrospective review of 98 patients with critical ischemia and angiographic lesions characterized as TASC A=13 (14%), B=38 (40%), C=24 (25%) o...

BACKGROUND Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) is the most common cause of acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) in the post-poliomyelitis eradication era. This is the first study done to identify the epidemiology, clinical features, and outcome of GBS in Iraqi children over 15 years. METHODS The surveillance database about AFP cases < 15 years reported during January 1997-December 2011 was used. RESULTS...

N Engl J Med 2003;349:1443-50. Copyright © 2003 Massachusetts Medical Society. A healthy, sexually active, 35-year-old woman presents for advice about the use of oral contraceptives. She does not smoke cigarettes and has no personal or family history of venous thromboembolism, myocardial infarction, or stroke. Her blood pressure is 120/80 mm Hg. Should an oral contraceptive be prescribed, and i...