objective: serotonin reuptake inhibitors are frequently used in first-line treatments for patients ‎with obsessive-compulsive disorder. nevertheless, many of these patients do not ‎respond well to initial therapy. the hypothesis of glutamatergic dysfunction in specific ‎brain regions has been proposed in the pathophysiology of obsessive-compulsive ‎disorder. this study was designed to evaluate ...

Synaptic augmentation is a short-term component of synaptic plasticity that increases transmitter release during repetitive stimulation and decays thereafter with a time constant of approximately 7 sec. Augmentation has typically been observed under conditions where there is little or no depression because of depletion of synaptic vesicles from the readily releasable pool (RRP) of transmitter. ...

OF THESIS Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Science

Shenzhen, the first special economic zone of China, has witnessed earth-shaking changes since the late 1980s. In the past 35 years, about 80 km2 of land has been reclaimed from the sea in Shenzhen. In order to investigate coastal vertical land motions associated with land reclamation, we proposed an elaborated Point Target (PT) based Small Baseline Subset InSAR (SBAS-InSAR) strategy to process ...

BACKGROUND Recent studies have suggested that suicide rates in breast augmentation patients are higher than those in the general population of women. OBJECTIVE The author sought to establish the expected rate of suicide in breast augmentation patients and to compare the expected and actual rates. METHODS The literature was reviewed to characterize the demographic, behavioral, and other qual...

CONTEXT Breast augmentation is not associated with an increased risk of breast cancer; however, implants may interfere with the detection of breast cancer thereby delaying cancer diagnosis in women with augmentation. OBJECTIVE To determine whether mammography accuracy and tumor characteristics are different for women with and without augmentation. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS A prospec...

In recent years, there has been considerable interest in the use of antagonistic microorganisms for control postharvest diseases. Such organisms can be isolated from a variety sources including fermented food products, surfaces leaves, fruit and vegetables. Post-harvest diseases need to controlled maintain quality abundance fruits vegetables produced by growers around world. decay accounts sign...

OBJECTIVE To determine the effect of cosmetic breast augmentation on subsequent infant feeding. PARTICIPANTS, DESIGN AND SETTING Population-based record linkage study of women giving birth in New South Wales, January 2006 - December 2011. Birth records were linked longitudinally to maternal hospitalisations up to 11 years before birth. Breast augmentation was identified by surgical procedure ...