Background/aim: This study was undertaken to evaluate the effects of positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) levels on intracranial pressure (ICP) and cerebral perfusion pressure (CPP) and to determine the appropriate PEEP level during steep Trendelenburg position combined with pneumoperitoneum.Materials and methods: Ten pigs were included in this study. Pneumoperitoneum and Trendelenburg posit...

PURPOSE To investigate the articulatory awareness of children with normal phonological development according to the variables gender, age and schooling, as well as to analyze their performances in speech perception and production tasks. METHODS Participants were 90 Preschool and Elementary School students, with ages between 5 and 7 years, who were evaluated using the Articulatory Awareness In...

The improvement of techniques for the mass rearing predators in laboratory, including age mating is important to obtain largest number individuals biological control programs. purpose this study was evaluate females’ fecundity predator Podisus fuscescens (Dallas, 1851) (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) with different pre-mating periods. females were mated immediately after emergence (T1) or one (T2), t...

Mosquitoes are both vectors of disease and a hindrance to outdoor activities. Since its discovery in 1976, the larvicide Bacillus thuringiensis var. israelensis (Bti) has proven its effectiveness in controlling mosquito populations, with negligible environmental impact. We performed an integrated, 5-year study of the direct and indirect effects of Bacillus thuringiensis var. israelensis (Bti ap...

Gurdaspur borer causes great losses to sugarcane especially ratoon crop. On one way it damages the crop and on the other way its infestations paves way for certain diseases like red rot, stem rot and ratoon stunting disease. Experiments were conducted at Sugar Crops Research Institute, Mardan during 2003-2004 in sugarcane ratoon crops with the objective to see the effect of different control me...

OBJECTIVE To compare the ventilatory effects of the three-way laryngeal mask airway (TLMA) and tracheal tube (TT) on hemodynamics, respiratory function, and stress responses in a canine model during bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL). STUDY DESIGN Experimental study. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY The 303rd Hospital of the Chinese People's Liberation Army in May 2013. METHODOLOGY Sixteen ...

One of the important problems in data mining is discovering association rules from databases. Each transaction contains a set of items. Discovering the frequent itemsets require a lot of computation power, memory and input/output values, which can only be provided by parallel computer. In this paper, we proposed a new Parallel Partition Prime Multiple Algorithm for association rule mining. Prop...

BACKGROUND This study is supposed to investigate the effects of combined epidural and general anesthesia on intraoperative hemodynamic responses, postoperative cellular immunity, and prognosis in patients with gallbladder cancer (GBC). METHODS One hundred forty-four GBC patients were selected and randomly divided into the general anesthesia (GA) group and the combined epidural-general anesthe...

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