Purpose: The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence utilization long-acting permanent methods (LAPMs) family planning (FP) among women in Ossen Location, Baringo North Sub-County Kenya, and determine influence myths misconceptions on women’s choice about LAPMs options.
 Methodology: This adopted a descriptive cross-sectional design mixed method research (MMR) approach, which allowe...

PURPOSE To assess whether human leukocyte antigen class I and class II alleles confer susceptibility to uveal melanoma or are related to specific clinical or tumor characteristics and survival. METHODS Between 1990 and 2004, 235 consecutive Dutch patients with diagnoses of primary uveal melanoma were typed for HLA class I and II, either by complement-dependent cytotoxicity test or by DNA-base...

Organic monolayers at the surfaces of aqueous aerosols play an important role in determining the mass, heat transfer rate and surface reactivity of atmospheric aerosols. They can potentially contribute to the formation of cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) and are involved in a series of chemical reactions occurring in atmosphere. Recent studies even suggest that organic-coated interfaces could ha...

BACKGROUND Inactivation processes can be classified into non-thermal inactivation methods such as ethylene oxide and γ-radiation, and thermal methods such as autoclaving. The ability of carbon dioxide enriched microbubbles to inactivate Pseudomonas putida suspended in physiological saline, as a non-thermal sterilisation method, was investigated in this study with many operational advantages ove...

Previous work indicated that Streptococcus bovis HC5 had significant antibacterial activity, and even nisin-resistant S. bovis JB1 cells could be strongly inhibited. S. bovis HC5 inhibited a variety of Gram-positive bacteria and the spectrum of activity was similar to monensin, a commonly used feed additive. The crude extracts (ammonium sulfate precipitation) were inactivated by Pronase E and t...

This study aimed to determine the prevalence of admission hypothermia (AH) among very-low-birth-weight (≤1500 g) infants in 32 Malaysian neonatal intensive care units (NICUs). This was a retrospective analysis of prospectively collected data of all very-low-birth-weight infants admitted and a questionnaire survey of the practice of AH prevention. Of the 3768 (99.8%) infants with admission tempe...

Reprogramming of cellular energy metabolism is widely accepted to be one of the main hallmarks of cancer. The aberrant expression pattern of key regulators in the glycolysis pathway in cancer cells corroborates with the hypothesis that most cancer cells utilize aerobic glycolysis as their main ATP production method instead of mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation. Overexpression of SLC2A1 and...

Purpose: To review the relationship between kinetics, efficacy, and safety of several corticosteroid formulations for the treatment of diabetic macular edema. Methods: Reports of corticosteroid use for the treatment of diabetic macular edema were identified by a literature search, which focused on the pharmacokinetics, efficacy, and safety of these agents in preclinical animal models and clinic...

Ryan, Clodagh M., and T. Douglas Bradley. Pathogenesis of obstructive sleep apnea. J Appl Physiol 99: 2440-2450, 2005; doi:10.1152/japplphysiol.00772.2005.— The pathogenesis of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) has been under investigation for over 25 years, during which a number of factors that contribute to upper airway (UA) collapse during sleep have been identified. Structural/anatomic factors ...

Current approaches using Artificial Intelligence techniques applied to chemistry use representations inherited from existing tools. These tools describe chemical compounds with a set of structure-activity relationship (SAR) descriptors because they were developed mainly for the task of drug design. We propose an ontology based on the chemical nomenclature as a way to capture the concepts common...