OBJECTIVES The aim of this case-control study was to evaluate the nasopharyngeal pH (NasopH) in children with normal or abnormal pH-metry in two groups of patients; 1) children presenting gastroenterological symptoms; and 2) children with chronic respiratory symptoms. METHODS From February 2004 to January 2005, all consecutive patients referred for 24-hour pH-metry and in whom gastroesophagea...

Suppose that G is an abelian p-separable group and R is a commutative unital ring of prime characteristic p. It is proved that if Rp i possesses nilpotent elements for each natural number i, then the normalized Sylow p-subgroup S(RG) in the group ring RG is torsion-complete if and only if G is p-bounded. This supplies our recent results from Acta Math. Hung. (1997), Ric. Mat. (2002), Tamkang J....

Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in TGFβ1 can predict the risk of radiation pneumonitis (RP) in patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) after definitive radiotherapy. Here we investigated whether SNPs in TGFβ superfamily members BMP2 and BMP4 are associated with RP in such patients. In total, we retrospectively analyzed 663 patients given ≥ 60 Gy for NSCLC. We randomly assigned 3...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Is there a trade-off between children ever born (CEB) and post-reproductive lifespan in humans? Here, we report a comprehensive analysis of reproductive trade-offs in the Framingham Heart Study (FHS) dataset using phenotypic and genotypic correlations and a genome-wide association study (GWAS) to look for single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) that are related to the a...

We evaluated toxicity and outcomes for patients with peripheral lung tumors treated with stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) in a dose-escalation and dose-convergence study. A total of 15 patients were enrolled. SBRT was performed with 60 Gy in 5 fractions (fr.) prescribed to the 60% isodose line of maximum dose, which was 100 Gy in 5 fr., covering the planning target volume (PTV) surfac...

Least squares means, genetic (sigma g), and phenotypic (sigma p) standard deviations, and phenotypic coefficients of variation (CV) were estimated on an age-constant basis for growth, carcass, and meat traits of castrate males from 12 breed groups combined, for 9 purebreds combined, and for the F3 generation of three composite populations combined to which the nine purebreds contributed. Also, ...

This study was conducted at Setif Agricultural Experimental Station in 2017−2018 crop season, the experimental material used this consisted of 5 cultivars (Triticum durum Desf.) based on their difference between early and late cultivation. The genotypes tested were sowing a random block design with three replications, each plot 2 rows 2.5 m long spaced 20 cm. aim is to assess impact choice date...

Least squares means, genetic ( ug), and phenotypic ( up) standard deviations, and phenotypic coefficients of variation ( C V ) were estimated on an age-constant basis for growth, carcass, and meat traits of castrate males from 12 breed groups combined, for 9 purebreds combined, and for the F 3 generation of three composite populations combined to which the nine purebreds contributed. Also, heri...

Let G be a multiplicatively written p-separable abelian group and R a commutative unitary ring of prime characteristic p so that Rp i has nilpotent elements for each positive integer i > 1. Then, we prove that, the normed unit p-subgroup S(RG) of the group ring RG is quasi-complete if and only if G is a bounded p-group. This strengthens our recent results in (Internat. J. Math. Analysis, 2006) ...