BACKGROUND The current indications of cardiac implantable electronic devices (CIEDs) have expanded to include young patients with serious cardiac risk factors, but CIED placement has the disadvantage of involving unsightly scarring and bulging of the chest wall. A collaborative team of cardiologists and plastic surgeons developed a technique for the subpectoral placement of CIEDs in young femal...

OBJECTIVES The aim of the study was to investigate ultrasound and Doppler parameters in the third trimester of pregnancy as possible predictors of adverse perinatal outcome in unselected pregnancies. MATERIAL AND METHODS We performed a retrospective cross-sectional study including unselected pregnant women be-tween 27 and 36 + 6 weeks of gestation. The following ultrasound and Doppler paramet...

Abstract The cellulase cocktail of marine Aspergillus niger exhibited salt-tolerant and thermostable properties, which is great potential in industrial application. In order to excavate the single tolerant components from complex cocktail, constitutive homologous expression was employed for direct obtainment endoglucanase ( An EGL). Enzymatic property study revealed that EGL a salt tolerance st...

background : inequality in households’ payments on food and health expenditures presents the accessibility and utili-zation patterns between them. this study investigated the iranian rural and urban households’ inequality in payments on food and out-of-pocket health expenditures from 1998 to 2012. methods : this descriptive study was conducted through the analysis of iranian statistics centre d...

The BRCT domain (BRCA1 C-terminal domain) is an important signaling and protein targeting motif in the DNA damage response system. The BRCT domain, which mainly occurs as a singleton (single BRCT) or tandem pair (double BRCT), contains a phosphate-binding pocket that can bind the phosphate from either the DNA end or a phosphopeptide. In this work, we performed a database search, phylogeny recon...

nearly 80% of young people today will never be able to retire. why? because they lack the personal finance training that leads to long-term planning and future security. connecting the dots between kids and money management skills prepares them for the financial realities the world will face over the next century. pocket money is one of the first ways for children to learn the basics of managin...