Dietary intake and nutritional status of individuals are important factors affecting mental health and the development of psychiatric disorders. Majority of scientific evidence relating to mental health focuses on depression, cognitive function, and dementia, and limited evidence is available about other psychiatric disorders including schizophrenia. As life span of human being is increasing, t...

Most foreign compounds are conjugated in vivo producing metabolites which are fairly strong organic acids and are readily excreted in either the urine or bile (see Williams & Millburn, 1974). The major conjugation mechanisms in animals are those utilizing glucuronic acid, glucose, sulphate, glycine, cysteine, acetylation and methylation (see Williams, 1968). Glucuronic acid conjugation is the m...

High densities in bunker silos minimize losses and reduce storage costs; however, the guidelines to attain high densities are based on relatively little research. The objective of this study was to determine those practices or factors most correlated with bunker silo density. Density was measured in 175 bunker silos across Wisconsin using core samples collected at chest height (1.13 m, 3.70 ft,...

cult choices regarding whether a tooth with pulpal and/or periapical disease should be saved through endodontic treatment or be extracted and replaced with an implant. Methods. The authors examined publications (research, literature reviews and systematic reviews) related to the factors affecting decision making for patients who have oral diseases or traumatic injuries. Results. The factors to ...

Studies investigating factors affecting prognosis in primary myelofibrosis have been numerous over the years because of the high heterogeneity with regard to its natural clinical course. Recently, the increasing application of reduced-intensity conditioning with allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation as well as the ongoing rapid development of new experimental agents, such as JAK2 i...

Tools that allow effective information organisation, access and navigation are becoming increasingly important on the Web. Similarity between web pages is a concept that is central to such tools. In this paper, we examine the effect that content and layout-related aspects of web pages have on web page similarity. We consider the textual content contained within common HTML tags, the structural ...

During 1969-76 77 pregnancies occurred after sterilisation in Aberdeen. The overall pregnancy rate was higher for laparoscopic sterilisation (1.2%) than for non-laparoscopic methods (0-23%), although there has been a great improvement over the past three years. The pregnancy rate was double if sterilisation was combined with termination ofpregnancy, and in 30% there were surgical difficulties. ...

BACKGROUND A better understanding of factors influencing quality of medical service can pinpoint better strategies for quality assurance in medical services. This study aimed to identify factors affecting the quality of medical services provided by Iranian physicians. METHODS Exploratory in-depth individual interviews were conducted with sixty-four physicians working in various medical instit...

There is an increasing awareness that also growth in FEV1 may be of importance to development of chronic obstructive lung disease in later life. This paper reviews current knowledge on factors in foetal and childhood life that may reduce lung growth. Passive smoking as well as malnutrition in foetal life is related to impaired lung function in later life. Birth weight is a risk factor to lung g...

Factors affecting vehicle occupancy measurement were examined with the aim of improving state vehicle occupancy monitoring programs. A comparison was conducted of five data sets looking at the effects on average vehicle occupancy (AVO) of time of day, day of week, road types, HOV lanes, locational differences, and traffic volume. It was found that AVO was higher in the afternoons, on Saturdays,...