conclusions ap did not prevent utis and resulted in more resistant organisms requiring iv antibiotics. discontinuing ap allowed the return of susceptibility to oral antimicrobials and significantly improved gfr in those children who had previously been on ap. adherence to a catheterization regimen with prompt treatment of symptomatic uti conserved renal function and prevented selection of resis...

Earlier studies by our group suggested the possibility that offspring of pesticide appliers might have increased risks of birth anomalies. To evaluate this hypothesis, 935 births to 34,772 state-licensed, private pesticide appliers in Minnesota occurring between 1989 and 1992 were linked to the Minnesota state birth registry containing 210,723 live births in this timeframe. The birth defect rat...

Introduction: Paediatric patients deserve special attention because of the higher radiation risks compared with adults. The main purpose of this study is to determine patient dose and diagnostic reference level for Paediatric through Entrance Surface Dose (ESD) calculations in common X-ray examination and to establish Paediatric national DRLs in digital radiography in Iran. <...

heart failure (hf) is a common disease with high health care costs and high mortality rate knowledge of the health-related quality of life (qol) outcomes of hf may guide decision making and be useful in assessing new therapies for population. yet little is known about qol of hf patients in iran. objectives: to assess health related qol of patients with hf with two different instrument and to co...

purpose : to determine add power (ap) and amplitude of accommodation (aa) in a sample of iranian population and its relationship with refractive errors methods : this cross-sectional study enrolled people of 35-70 years old by simple random sampling. exclusion criteria were myopia or hyperopia over 6 diopter (d) and astigmatism more than 0.75 d. those with a history of eye disorders and taking ...

How well does the pivotal-voter model explain voter participation in smallscale elections? This paper explores this question using data from Texas liquor referenda. It first structurally estimates the parameters of a pivotal-voter model using the Texas data. It then uses the estimates to evaluate both the within and out-of-sample performance of the model. The analysis shows that the model is ca...

Department of Agronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011 (A.J.S., G.A.P., R.C.S.); Minnesota Supercomputing Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455 (W.W.X.); Soybean Genomics and Improvement Laboratory, United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, Beltsville, Maryland 20705 (D.L.H.); United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural R...

The apterous (ap) gene is required for the normal development of the wing and haltere imaginal discs in Drosophila melanogaster. ap encodes a new member of the LIM family of developmental regulatory genes. The deduced amino acid sequence of ap predicts a homeo domain and a cysteine/histidine-rich domain known as the LIM domain. In these domains ap is highly similar to the mec-3 and lin-11 prote...