The aim of this study was to evaluate the influence of physical exercise (marcha gait) on heart rate variability indices in Mangalarga Marchador horses. Twenty-five animals, fourteen females and eleven males, aged 6.4 ± 2.7 years and with a mean weight of 428.3 ± 24.7 kg, were used. Electrocardiograms were recorded at two different time points: rest and immediately after exercise (40 min of aer...

INTRODUCTION In this study, the authors aimed to examine the effects of cooperative learning methods using Web Quest and team-based learning on students' self-direction, self-regulation, and academic achievement. METHOD This is a comparative study of students taking a course in mental health and psychiatric disorders. In two consecutive years, a group of students were trained using the WebQue...

ity a nonlocal potential which could fit neutron elastic scattering data in the energy range from 0.4 to 24 MeV and where the optical-model parameters were energy independent. This is, of course, a remarkable result since we know that the absorption, for instance, is changing quite dramatically by going from 0.4 to 24 MeV incident projectile energy. We believe that these findings of Perey and B...

Two Cobas-Bio analyzers were found to have significantly increased imprecision, owing to absorbance errors, when we used rotors pieced together from segments of four to 10 cuvets. The difference in CV between whole/unbroken and four-cuvet or 10-cuvet segment rotors was significant by Student's unpaired t-test (P = 0.038 and less than 0.0001, respectively) and by the Mann-Whitney U test (P less ...

Penelitian ini memiliki tujuan yaitu untuk melihat apakah pelatihan kontrol diri dampak mengurangi intensitas perilaku agresif pada siswa SMK Immanuel Medan. Data diperoleh melalui uji normalitas Shapiro Wilk. Teknik analisis dalam penelitian menggunakan non parametris Wilcoxon test menguji perbedaan distribusi dua kelompok sampel yang berpasangan dan teknis Mann Whitney U Test digunakan menguk...

BACKGROUND This study examined the relationships between a newly developed older person-specific non-preference-based quality of life (QoL) instrument (Older People's Quality of Life brief questionnaire (OPQoL-brief)) and two generic preference-based instruments (the EQ-5D-3L Level (EQ-5D-3 L) and the Adult Social Care Outcomes Toolkit (ASCOT) in a community-dwelling population of Australian ol...

PURPOSE In oncology, texture features extracted from positron emission tomography with 18-fluorodeoxyglucose images (FDG-PET) are of increasing interest for predictive and prognostic studies, leading to several tens of features per tumor. To select the best features, the use of a random forest (RF) classifier was investigated. METHODS Sixty-five patients with an esophageal cancer treated with...

INTRODUCTION The antimicrobial efficacy of root canal irrigant plays an important role in increasing the success of root canal treatment (RCT). The aim of the present experimental study was to compare the antimicrobial activity of Triphala (a plant-derived solution) with 0.5, 1, 2.5 and 5% concentrations of sodium hypochlorite (NaOCl), against Enterococcus faecalis (E. faecalis). METHODS AND ...

PURPOSE To evaluate the clinical performance of a silicone hydrogel (Si-Hy) soft contact lens (CL) in combination with three different multipurpose disinfecting solutions (MPDSs). METHODS This was a prospective, randomized, single-masked, crossover, and comparative study in which 31 habitual soft CL wearers were randomly assigned to one of the three MPDSs (Synergi, COMPLETE RevitaLens, and OP...

OBJECTIVE To test the hypothesis that successful implementation of a care bundle designed to prevent nosocomial airway infection will be associated with decreased incidence of ventilator-associated tracheobronchitis. DESIGN Prospective pre- and post interventional. SETTING PICU at an academic medical center PATIENTS : All patients admitted to the PICU who received invasive mechanical vent...