OBJECTIVE To compare salivary, plasma and urinary free cortisol (UFC) measurements in patients with anorexia nervosa, in whom an overdrive of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis is well established but information on salivary cortisol is lacking, in viscerally obese patients in whom subtle abnormalities of cortisol secretion and metabolism are postulated, and in normal-weight healthy ...

Microbial contamination of fuel has been the cause of several problems in transportation and storage of these products. Due to the lack of previous studies related to these problems in Costa Rica, bacterial quality was evaluated biannually in automotive fuels stored in the four oil distribution facilities of the Costa Rican Petroleum Refinery (RECOPE). In 12 oil storage tanks, for a total of 96...

Resumen Las prostitutas no dejan de estar generalmente relacionadas a las enfermedades sexualmente transmisibles (EST), pues para la prostituta, el sexo como profesión – es parte de su cotidiano. Ese estudio tiene como objetivo describir las condiciones de vida y de salud de las prostitutas y analizar el trabajo educativo de prevención de EST/SIDA realizado por la Asociación de Prostitutas de C...

background: cushing's disease is the most prevalent cause of endogenous adrenocorticotrophic hormone hypersecretion. the aim of this study was to document the current clinical practice pattern in the management of cushing's disease by iranian endocrinologists to determine their opinions and compare them with the current clinical practice guidelines.    methods: an eight-item questionnaire deali...

Antecedentes. El recuento de unidades formadoras colonias (UFC) Cryptococcus en el líquido cefalorraquídeo (LCR) sería un marcador fiable para pronóstico del paciente y una herramienta simple económica. Objetivo. Evaluar la utilidad UFC spp. compararlo con las variaciones antígeno capsular (AgCr) LCR.
 Materiales métodos. Se realizó revisión historias clínicas pacientes meningoencefalitis ...

A página editorial da edição 18 do periódico de pesquisa Paralelo 31 traz o texto apresentação Dossiê Artes e Convívio intitulado em convívio. Os processos os saberes no contemporâneo, organizado pelas artistas, professoras pesquisadoras arte Dra. Andréia Machado Oliveira (UFSM), Eduarda Gonçalves (UFPel) Deisimer Gorczevski (UFC).Palavras-chave: práticas contemporâneas; Modos convívio; Ações c...

This paper is a commentary on Pollet et al. (2013), where both the incidence of left-handedness and its effect on outcomes were analyzed. One of the drawbacks is that these analyses were largely cross-sectional with only a small number of fights for any given fighter. Here, we explore the effects of left-handedness on fight outcomes in a small sample of elite UFC fighters with multiple fights f...

Many media processors 28, 7, 14, 8, 18, 27], used for computing intensive embedded applications, are VLIW architectures that rely on the compiler to exploit Instruction Level Parallelism. Loop unrolling is generally used to expose instruction parallelism but computing the unrolling factor is very diicult as instruction cache misses and spill code can cancel the expected beneet of the transforma...

Mesquita, J.O.1#, Machado, A.R.1# Del Sarto, R.P.1, Martins, A.M.A2* 1UDF – Centro Universitário do Distrito Federal, Brazil 2Liver Transplantation Center, HUWC / Federal University of Ceara UFC, Brazil / Brazilian Center for Protein Research, Department of Cell Biology, University of Brasilia, UNB – DF, Brazil #these authors contributed equally to this work. *Corresponding author: Dr. Aline M ...