The quality of life of people with epidermolysis bullosa (EB) living in Scotland was assessed by postal questionnaire using the Dermatology Life Quality Index (DLQI) and the Children's Dermatology Life Quality Index (CDLQI). There were 143 people with EB simplex (EBS) and 99 individuals with non-Hallopeau--Siemens subtypes of dystrophic EB (DEB). A further six individuals had the severe Hallope...

OBJECTIVE To assess the periodontal status of HIV positive individuals and to compare it with age-and gender-matched controls. MATERIALS AND METHODS The cross-sectional study comprised fifty-two HIV positive individuals and fifty-two controls. OHI-S and PI were recorded by a single pre-trained and pre-calibrated examiner. RESULTS Based on antiretroviral therapy use, mean OHI-S was higher am...

As the Internet access over broadband networks is growing, multimedia communications with video using MPEG will be widely used. User level Quality of Service (QoS) will be needed at ubiquitous, multimedia and applied computing environment using MPEG that directly affects human's sense. We have conducted an experiment in order to investigate relation between MPEG encoding bit rates and user leve...

Gleason's score (GS) has been reported to be the most valuable prognostic factor in cases of prostate cancer. GS is solely dependent on the histological architecture of the prostate cancer, but, it seems doubtful that histological patterns are sufficient for evaluating the degree of malignancy of prostate cancer. We previously reported that the estimation of volume-weighted mean nuclear volume ...

BACKGROUND The findings of a repressed expression of emotions in cancer patients contributed to the hypothesis developed by Lydia Temoshok of a type C personality ('cancer-prone'). To the Authors' knowledge, the associations between the 'cancer-prone personality' characteristics in commitment test and the risk of breast cancer (BC) have rarely been considered together in a prospective study. ...

this study compared farmers’ rating of extension effectiveness in technology dissemination to the level of adoption. in conducting the study, 180 farmers participating in extension programme in cross-river state were randomly selected through multi-stage random sampling technique. the data collected through a structured questionnaire were analyzed using the t-test of significance of difference ...

Visual object tracking is a critical task in computer vision. Challenging things always exist when an object needs to be tracked. For instance, background clutter is one of the most challenging problems. The mean-shift tracker is quite popular because of its efficiency and performance in a range of conditions. However, the challenge of background clutter also disturbs its performance. In this a...