Background: Few studies investigated brain abnormalities in early onset schizophrenia. Objective: To assess computed tomography (CT) abnormalities in patients with childhood or adolescence onset schizophrenia. Method: CT scans of patients with childhood (6 to 11 years old) (N=6) or adolescence (12-17 years old) (N=9) schizophrenia were compared to normal controls. Patients were diagnosed based ...

Background: the association of somatostatin (SMT) with endoscopic therapy in patients with cirrhosis and variceal bleeding significantly improves the control of the bleeding episode, and hemodynamic data have shown that a dosage of 500 μg/h allows a more marked reduction of portal pressure versus the usual dosage of 250 μg/h. Aim: to assess if the 500 μg/h dosage is associated with an improved ...

2008 financial crisis has led to a differentiation in the traditional monetary and fiscal policies implemented by economies. With 2013 global recession, 2018 squeezing pandemic process, economic stability tried ensured structural besides policies. Especially deepening exchange rate volatility brought concept of stabilization dollarization back agenda. In this research, it is aimed examine chang...

Address correspondence to: Dr. Homero A. Monsanto, Merck Sharp & Dohme, PO Box 3689, Carolina, PR 00984-3689. Tel: (787) 474-8181 • Fax: (787) 474-8211 • E-mail: [email protected] Osteoporosis is an established and well-defined disease that affects millions of people around the world and is a major cause of morbidity. Not much is known about the level of awareness of the condition among...

Address correspondence to: Cristina Palacios, PhD, Nutrition Program, Graduate School of Public Health, PO Box 365067, San Juan, PR 00936-5067. Email: cristina. [email protected] Objective: To explore the association of social-environment (SE) factors and diet quality (DQ) with weight status in a group of children in Puerto Rico (PR). Methods: A cross-sectional study in a sample of 114 12-year-o...

We present a direct method of calculation of the multifractal spectrum from the wavelet decomposition. Information pertinent to singular structures in time series is captured by the WTMM method and the local effective Hölder exponent is evaluated locally for each singular point of the time series. The direct multifractal spectrum is obtained from the scaling of the histograms of the local effec...

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An enduring concern of Robert Dreeben’s work is the conditions of classroom instruction (Dreeben [1968] 2002; Barr and Dreeben 1983; Dreeben and Barr 1988). Whether it is the conditions influencing classroom goodwill (Bidwell, Chapter 3, this volume) or the compositional effects on instructional methods, Dreeben repeatedly brings readers’ attention to how the social organization of schools rela...

Introduction: many surgical techniques –both through the perineal and abdominal routes– have been described for the treatment of rectal prolapse. The aim of this work is to evaluate the clinical and functional outcome with Delorme’s perineal procedure. Patients and methods: twenty-one patients with complete rectal prolapse were studied from July 2000 to October 2005. Age, gender, anesthetic ris...

Propolis is produced by honeybees and has many biological properties, including immunomodulatory, antiinflammatory, anti-oxidant, anti-bacterial, anti-viral and anti-cancer actions. Five ethanol extracts of Brazilian propolis were tested for inhibition of 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate (TPA)-induced inflammation in mice. The ethanol extract of Brazilian propolis AF-08 markedly inhibited T...