The purpose of this study was to determine the knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP) concerning the safe use of pesticides of Thai farmers in Don Kha subdistrict, Bang Phae district, Ratchaburi Province. Thirty-three voluntary Thai farmers of thirty-three farming families, recruited by convenience sampling, participated in a training program for six months. Data were collected by questionnai...

introduction: the relation between patient body mass index (bmi) and the external dose rate of thyroid cancer patients treated with 131i has been investigated. methods: a total of 183 patients treated with 131i were selected randomly and divided according to their administrated activity into three groups: 3.7gbq, 5.5gbq and 7.4gbq. they were also stratified into three groups according to their...

Ataxia Telangiectasia Mutated (ATM) signaling is essential for the repair of a subset of DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs); however, its precise role is unclear. Here, we show that < or =25% of DSBs require ATM signaling for repair, and this percentage correlates with increased chromatin but not damage complexity. Importantly, we demonstrate that heterochromatic DSBs are generally repaired more s...

The braid group with its conjugacy problem is one of the recent hot issues in cryptography. At CT-RSA 2001, Anshel, Anshel, Fisher, and Goldfeld proposed a commutator key agreement protocol (KAP) based on the braid groups and their colored Burau representation. Its security is based on the multiple simultaneous conjugacy problem (MSCP) plus a newly adopted key extractor. This article shows how ...

Potassium hydrogen phthalate single crystals have been grown by conventional and Sankaranarayanan– Ramasamy method. Dye inclusion crystals have attracted researchers in the context of crystal growth for applications in solid state lasers. The effect of crystal violet as dopant on the characteristic properties of KAP crystal was studied. Thermal stability of the crystals is tested using TG-DTA. ...

Protein kinases are an important class of substrate of the protein phosphatases. We have examined the mechanism of dephosphorylation of the activation segments of the insulin receptor kinase and cyclin-dependent kinase 2 by their respective phosphatases, namely the tyrosine specific phosphatase PTP1B and the dual specificity phosphatase KAP. These studies reveal that PTP1B and KAP utilize contr...

While direct measurement of the peak skin dose resulting from a fluoroscopically-guided procedure is possible, the decision must be made a priori at additional cost and time. It is most often the case that the need for accurate knowledge of the peak skin dose is realized only after a procedure has been completed, or after a suspected reaction has been discovered. Part I of this review article d...

BACKGROUND The Indonesian region of Aceh was the area most severely affected by the earthquake and tsunami of 26 December 2004. Department of Health data reveal an upward trend of dengue cases in Aceh since the events of the tsunami. Despite the increasing incidence of dengue in the region, there is limited understanding of dengue among the general population of Aceh. The aim of this study was ...

Intraflagellar transport (IFT) is a bidirectional process required for assembly and maintenance of cilia and flagella. Kinesin-2 is the anterograde IFT motor, and Dhc1b/Dhc2 drives retrograde IFT. To understand how either motor interacts with the IFT particle or how their activities might be coordinated, we characterized a ts mutation in the Chlamydomonas gene encoding KAP, the nonmotor subunit...