OBJECTIVE To assess the effectiveness of segmental neuromyotherapy combined with standard hospital therapy relative to standard therapy alone in patients with hemiplegic shoulder pain. DESIGN Randomized controlled trial. PATIENTS A total of 24 patients with positive Neer's and hand-behind-neck tests received standard therapy for shoulder pain. Half of them received additional segmental neur...

OBJECTIVE Lipoprotein-associated phospholipase A2 (Lp-PLA2), a marker of vascular inflammation, is associated with cardiovascular disease. This prospective study of an inception cohort aimed to investigate whether the level of Lp-PLA2 is associated with subclinical atherosclerosis in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). METHODS Patients from northern Sweden diagnosed with early RA were co...

Background/aim: This study was undertaken to evaluate the effects of positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) levels on intracranial pressure (ICP) and cerebral perfusion pressure (CPP) and to determine the appropriate PEEP level during steep Trendelenburg position combined with pneumoperitoneum.Materials and methods: Ten pigs were included in this study. Pneumoperitoneum and Trendelenburg posit...

OBJECTIVE To study the differences in the cleavage time between chromosomally normal and abnormal embryos and to elaborate an algorithm to increase the probability of noninvasively selecting chromosomally normal embryos. DESIGN Retrospective cohort study. SETTING University-affiliated infertility center. PATIENT(S) Preimplantation genetic screening patients (n = 125; n = 77 with ET), incl...

PURPOSE To investigate the articulatory awareness of children with normal phonological development according to the variables gender, age and schooling, as well as to analyze their performances in speech perception and production tasks. METHODS Participants were 90 Preschool and Elementary School students, with ages between 5 and 7 years, who were evaluated using the Articulatory Awareness In...

Eleven diets (D1-D11), designated as treatments (T1-T11), supplemented with different levels of inorganic phosphorus (P) (Ca2PO4) were fed to Heterobranchus bidorsalis (10.8 ±0.02 g) to determine the optimum P requirement. D1 D11 contained total P of 10.2, 10.4, 11.0, 11.9, 12.3, 12.6, 13.4, 13.9, 14.2 14.7 and 15.4 g kg respectively. After 84 days of feeding trial, there was increase in fish g...

Visual object fixation and figure-ground discrimination in Drosophila are robust behaviors requiring sophisticated computation by the visual system, yet the neural substrates remain unknown. Recent experiments in walking flies revealed object fixation behavior mediated by circuitry independent from the motion-sensitive T4-T5 cells required for wide-field motion responses. In tethered flight exp...

Fibers are dietary indigestible carbohydrates supplements which play an important role in avian digestive physiology and thus in production performances. In this study, we examined effects of diets on intestinal and cecal microflora and on production of SCFA in 21-day-old broilers. Diets differed in fibrous content (3, 4.5 or 6% of crude fiber, e.g. T1, T3, and T5, respectively) or in nature of...

The role of DNA replication in the synthesis of RNA and proteins during the “late” period of the infective cycle of T!%nfected Escherichia coli F has been examined. Inhibition of DNA synthesis was achieved by addition of chloramphenicol to TS-infected cultures or by use of a mutant of T5 (T5 am I), which is unable to cause the synthesis of an active DNA polymerase upon infection of the nonpermi...

Overview The Terminator 5 (T5) ASIC from Chelsio Communications, Inc. is a fifth generation, highperformance 2x40Gbps/4x10Gbps fully virtualized server adapter engine with Unified Wire capability, allowing storage, compute and networking traffic to run simultaneously. Thanks to integrated, standards-based FCoE/iSCSI and RDMA offload, T5 adapters are high performance drop in replacements for Fib...