a 2-year-old male mynah (acridotheres tristis) was referred with history of abdominal hernia surgery, depression, cachexia, lethargy and swelling of foot joints. hematological and biochemical findings consisted of leukocytosis, heterophilia, monocytosis, elevation of liver enzymes activity, hyperproteinemia and hyperglobulinemia. fine needle aspiration (fna) was performed from foot joints, asep...

OBJECTIVE To compare the clinical and biochemical outcomes between adequate and inadequate parathyroidectomies in patients with chronic renal failure. MATERIAL AND METHODS All secondary hyperparathyroidism patients who were previously operated in the Marmara University Hospital Breast and Endocrine Surgery Unit were planned to be included in the study. Patients were divided into two groups ac...

Most studies examining the relation between residential environment and health have used census-derived measures of neighborhood socioeconomic position (SEP). There is a need to identify specific features of neighborhoods relevant to disease risk, but few measures of these features exist, and their measurement properties are understudied. In this paper, the authors 1) develop measures (scales) ...

This investigation compared the results of direct and indirect measurements of maximum oxygen uptake (VO2max) of an Asian population. Twenty subjects (16 male, 4 female), all of whom were physical education students, were assessed directly using laboratory treadmill running to determine VO2max. The indirect estimation of VO2max was obtained using a modified form of the Leger and Lambert 20-m mu...

OBJECTIVE To compare the ability of a rank-invariant non-parametric method with that of kappa statistics to evaluate the reliability of the Swedish version of the Tampa Scale for Kinesiophobia and the Self-Efficacy Scale by identifying systematic and random disagreement. The aim was, further, to compare 2 different statistical approaches to obtain a global value from multi-item scales. DESIGN...

Purpose Global analyses using mean deviation (MD) assess visual field progression, but can miss localized changes. Pointwise analyses are more sensitive to localized progression, but more variable so require confirmation. This study assessed whether cluster trend analysis, averaging information across subsets of locations, could improve progression detection. Methods A total of 133 test-retes...

1. DEFINITIONS. Let D be the unit disk {z\ \z\ < l } and let £ be the group of conformai homeomorphisms of D. A Fuchsian group is a discrete subgroup of <£. We shall be concerned here with the finitely generated Fuchsian groups. It is known that these have the following presentations. Generators: aïy bi, • • • , ag, bg, eh • • • , ek, fa, • • • , hm, pu • * * , pr. Defining relations : e? = eg ...

Hyperimmunization of horses with specific antigens to harvest antisera is associated with high incidence of liver amyloidosis. The histopathologic examination is the gold standard method for diagnosis of the hepatic amyloidosis. The aim of the present study was to determine whether the clinical manifestations and serum values of appropriate chemical constituents due to liver injury, provide the...

mycoplasma ovipneumoniae is an important respiratory pathogen of sheep across the world. in the present study nasal swab samples (n=778) were processed and 51isolates of m. ovipneumoniae were identified through biochemical tests and pcr. difference in the isolation rate among districts (n=12), age groups (n=3), breads (n=6) was assessed. similarly the isolate rate among healthy (n=513) and resp...

Biochemical reaction systems may be viewed as discrete event processes characterized by a number of states and state transitions. These systems may be modeled as state transition systems with transitions representing individual reaction events. Since they often involve a large number of interactions, it can be difficult to construct such a model for a system, and since the resulting state-level...