INTRODUCTION HIV disclosure to a steady sexual partner (SSP) is important both in preventing HIV transmission and improving the quality of life of people living with HIV (PLHIV). Its determinants have been poorly investigated in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The study objective was to determine factors independently associated with voluntary disclosure to one's SSP in PLHIV receiving se...

This paper investigates the use of a special class of strong-stability-preserving (SSP) Runge–Kutta time discretization methods in conjunction with discontinuous Galerkin (DG) finite element spatial discretizatons. The class of SSP methods investigated here is defined by the property that the number of stages s is greater than the order k of the method. From analysis, CFL conditions for the lin...

Substance P (SP) binding to neurokinin 1 receptors (NK1R) in the spinal cord reportedly plays an important role in the micturition reflex as well as in nociceptive responses. We therefore investigated the effect of ablation of NK1R-expressing neurons in the spinal cord using saporin, a ribosome-inactivating protein, conjugated with [Sar9, Met (O2)11]SP, a specific ligand of NK1R (SSP-saporin), ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES   Patients with anaphylactic transfusion reactions require washed platelet concentrates (PCs) for subsequent platelet (PLT) transfusions. New PLT additive solutions (PASs) contain substances that might be beneficial for the preservation of PLT function during storage. This study compares the quality of PLTs washed and stored with T-Sol, Composol or SSP+. STUDY DESIGN...

Individuals who develop schizophrenia in adulthood exhibit, on average, deficits in childhood cognition relative to healthy controls. However, it remains unclear when in childhood such deficits emerge and whether they are stable across childhood or change (increase or decrease) across development. Importantly, whether the trajectory of childhood cognition differs among youth who later develop a...

In this paper economywide effects of SO2 emission reduction in Poland are studied. In order to fulfill the commitments required by the Second Sulfur Protocol (SSP), Poland needs to achieve roughly a 50% reduction of SO2 emission in relation to 1992 no later than in 2010. A 16% reduction was already achieved after two years of the Protocol signature, in 1996, and it keeps progressing. Neverthele...

Fast atom bombardment (FAB) technique was employed to determine the structure of polar lipids from the cellular membrane of Lactobacillus delbruekii ssp. bulgaricus and Streptococcus salivarius ssp. thermophilus. Analysis of spectra provided useful information about the molecular species and aminoacids constituents of the samples.

The single star-stellar population (ss-SSP) models are usually used for stellar population studies. However, there are more than 50% stars that are in binaries and evolve differently from single stars. This suggests when we model the stellar populations of galaxies and star clusters, the effects of binary interactions should be considered. Although a few works tried to model stellar populations...

In the (quick) overview of the SSP model, we discussed how the shearing of x-dependent modes by the mean shear leads to a positive feedback on the mean flow. In the SSP model these are the W 2 term in the M equation and the −MW term in the W equation. Although this interaction is not necessary for the self-sustaining process itself, it is the key effect that leads to the R−1 scaling of the tran...