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Severe complex deformities of the forefoot in elderly patients with no rheumatoid arthritis result pronounced decrease quality life, chronic pain, reduced mobility, failure to get shoes for everyday use, exacerbation concomitant somatic diseases. The use conventional joint preservation techniques such often leads deformity relapse, persistent and need revision surgery that is impossible due wor...

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES Feeding in infancy is the most significant determinant of the intestinal microbiota in early life. The aim of this study was to determine the gut microbiota of Korean infants and compare the microbiota obtained between breast-fed and formula-fed Korean infants. SUBJECTS/METHODS We analyzed the microbial communities in fecal samples collected from twenty 4-week old Korean...

A method is presented for determining the local magnitude, NIL, from records from seismoscopes and similar instruments. The technique extrapolates the maximum response of the standard Wood-Anderson seismograph, which determines ML, from the maximum response of the seismoscope. The standard deviation of the steady-state response of an oscillator subjected to white noise excitation is used to der...

Kompleksnye tyazhelye deformacii perednego otdela stopy u pozhilyh pacientov, ne stradayushchih revmatoidnym artritom, harakterizuyutsya vyrazhennym snizheniem kachestva zhizni, formirovaniem hronicheskogo bolevogo sindroma, obshchej mobil'nosti s nevozmozhnost'yu podbora obuvi dlya ezhednevnogo ispol'zovaniya, usugubleniem techeniya soputstvuyushchih somaticheskih zabolevanij. Ispol'zovanie kl...

Objective: This study evaluated the association of Childhood Imaginary Companion (CIC) status and schizotypy levels adolescents adults within framework Hierarchical Taxonomy Psychopathology (HiTOP). Method: The sample included 255 Iranian adults, grouped according to their CIC status, who responded mostly via e-questionnaires on a website. Schizotypy dimensions were compared between these two g...

Background: The Friends and Family Interview (FFI) is assumed to be a valid method study attachment stability attachment-related psychopathological processes in adolescence, but no studies have yet tested the test–retest reliability of this interview or longitudinal association patterns response FFI from adolescents with symptoms such as psychotic-like experiences (e.g., hallucinations, bizarre...

OBJECTIVE To assess the effect of a 4-week intervention with a full-length carbon graphite (FL) orthosis on pain and function in patients with midfoot arthritis, and to identify alterations in in vivo foot kinematics accompanying FL use in patients with midfoot arthritis. These results have immediate application for enhancing patient care through effective orthotic recommendations. DESIGN Exp...

INTRODUCTION Recent literature has shown that the good outcome of adoption would mostly depend on the quality of adoptive parenting, which is strongly associated with the security of parental internal working models (IWMs) of attachment. Specifically, attachment states-of-mind of adoptive mothers classified as free and autonomous and without lack of resolution of loss or trauma could represent ...

Fatal familial insomnia (FFI) is a prion disease clinically characterised by progressive insomnia and dysautonomia, and associated with an aspartic acid to asparagine mutation at the codon 178 (D178N) of the prion protein gene (PRNP). This mutation is also associated with familial Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD). These phenotypes have been held to depend on the polymorphism at the codon 129. FF...