Intestinal amebiasis has a worldwide distribution and is common in tropical and subtropical areas. [n this prospective 7-month study, we studied the main clinical findings in patients with acute amebic proctocolitis and the efficacy of Saccharomyces boulardii (SB) treatment of these patients.Initially, 57 cases with acute amebic proctocolitis were selected. The maximum occurrence of infecti...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this ecological study was to evaluate whether any changes in cardiovascular (CV) medicine utilization, population, socioeconomic and health system factors were associated with CV mortality in Lithuania, Sweden and Norway in 2003-2012. MATERIALS AND METHODS CV drug utilization was calculated using the Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical/Defined Daily Dose (DDD) methodology and...

Aspirin plus dipyridamole reduces platelet accumulation on short-term Dacron vascular grafts in man. To determine whether drug inhibition of platelet deposition is sustained on older grafts, we studied 18 men aged 41 to 87 years who had Dacron aortic bifurcation grafts in place a mean of 43.4 months (range 9.8 to 121.0) before and during short-term therapy with aspirin (325 mg tid) plus dipyrid...

Silicon-on-Sapphire (SOS) CMOS is an attractive technology for radiation-tolerant circuits design. It eliminates single-event latch-up and has a smaller sensitive volume for single-event upsets (SEUs) and single-event transients (SETs) compared to Bulk CMOS technology [1, 2]. However, like any Silicon-On-Insulator technology, SOS technology has back-channel leakage as part of the total ionizati...

This paper reports an analytical method to obtain approximate solution for optimal design of tuned inerter damper (TID) in MDOF damped civil structures. The is based on the equivalent linearization which converts mass-stiffness-damping system into a mass-equivalent stiffness and technique modal subsystem structure-TID SDOF system. procedures systems are introduced. Following this, proposed veri...

Voltage Control Oscillator (VCO) is one of the most sensitive components in Phase-locked loops (PLLs). This paper presents the design, analysis and total ionization dose (TID) measurement results of a 3GHz VCO designed and implemented using a commercial 0.25μm Silicon-on-Sapphire (SOS) CMOS process. First, we present the TID effects on single NMOS and PMOS transistors made in a test chip using ...

To characterize structural changes induced in the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (AChR) by agonists, we have mapped the sites of photoincorporation of the cholinergic noncompetitive antagonist 3-(trifluoromethyl)-3-(m-[125I]iodophenyl)diazirine (]125I]TID) in the presence and absence of 50 microM carbamylcholine. [125I]TID binds to the AChR with similar affinity under both these conditions, b...

To identify regions of the Torpedo Na,K-ATPase alpha-subunit that interact with membrane lipid and to characterize conformationally dependent structural changes in the transmembrane domain, we have proteolytically mapped the sites of photoincorporation of the hydrophobic compounds 3-(trifluoromethyl)-3-(m-[(125)I]iodophenyl)diazirine ([(125)I]TID) and the phosphatidylcholine analogue [(125)I]TI...

OBJECTIVES The current study retrospectively investigated the differences in anthropometric and fitness characteristics of junior rugby league players selected onto a talent identification and development (TID) programme between long-term career progression levels (i.e., amateur, academy, professional). DESIGN Retrospective design. METHODS Former junior rugby league players (N=580) selected...

The aim of this study was to assess different dosing strategies that may result in increased posaconazole bioavailability in patients with compromised gastrointestinal function and at high risk for invasive fungal infections. Patients undergoing chemotherapy and at risk for compromised gastrointestinal function received open-label posaconazole at 200 mg three times daily (TID) on days 1 to 8. P...