This study aimed to determine whether associations between the perceived environment and physical activity are moderated by urban-rural status among midolder aged adults. Environmental (safety, aesthetics, physical activity environment) and physical activity (total, leisure, transport) data from 3,888 adults (55 to 65 years) from urban and rural areas of Victoria, Australia, were analyzed. Mult...

Members of the metallothionein (MT) family are involved in metal detoxifcation and in the protection of cells against certain electrophilic carcinogens. In present study, it was found that MT1M was downregulated in more than 77.1% (91/118) of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) tissues compared with adjacent non-tumor tissues. Furthermore, overexpression of MT1M inhibited cell viability, colony form...

Both the functionalized and non functionalized carbon nanomaterials influence fruit and crop production in edible plants and vegetables. The fullerene, C60 and carbon nanotubes have been shown to increase the water retaining capacity, biomass and fruit yield in plants up to ~118% which is a remarkable achievement of nanotechnology in recent years. The fullerene treated bitter melon seeds also i...

Omnivorous Heteroptera constitute an important component of predatory guilds with high potential for biological control. Understanding the relative effects of plant feeding on the suppression of prey by omnivores could be an important element for improving biological control strategies. In the current paper, the effects of different plant food sources on the predation rate of the omnivorous pre...

Penicilliosis is a tropical disease occurring mostly in Southeast Asia. The incidence of Penicillium marneffei infection in acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) patients is increasing due to the infection of the HIV in the population in recent years. In this report, the bone marrow smears of 331 AIDS patients have been examined for the evidence of P. marneffei infection, and 35 (10.6%) of ...

Cardiac allotransplantation is now an established therapeutic modality for end-stage heart disease (1). Although the operative procedure remains essentially unchanged, recent advances in mechanical assist technology and significant advances in the medical therapy of congestive heart failure have changed heart transplantation from an “operation” to a definitive therapy among competing therapies ...

Uncemented revision cups are widely used in revision hip arthroplasty; they have shown good results. We report the the short term outcome with the cementless Pinnacle revision cup. All acetabular revisions using a Pinnacle revision cup between January 2007 and March 2010 were included. In March 2012, clinical scores were determined and the latest radiographs were assessed. Revision and radiogra...

Recent Raman scattering experiments have revealed a quasielastic peak in ${\mathrm{FeSe}}_{1\ensuremath{-}\mathrm{x}}{\mathrm{S}}_{\mathrm{x}}$ near an Ising-nematic quantum critical point (QCP) [Zhang et al., PNAS 118, 20 (2021)]. Notably, the occurs at subtemperature frequencies, and softens as ${T}^{\ensuremath{\alpha}}$ when temperature is decreased toward QCP, with $\ensuremath{\alpha}>...

In the book Proofs that Really Count [1], the authors use combinatorial arguments to prove many identities involving Fibonacci numbers, Lucas numbers, and their generalizations. Among these, they derive 91 of the 118 identities mentioned in Vajda’s book [2], leaving 27 identities unaccounted. Eight of these identities, presented later in this paper, have such a similar appearance, the authors r...

INTRODUCTION The aim was to examine the influence of the SCN1A gene polymorphism IVS5-91 rs3812718 G>A on the response to antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) in monotherapy or polytherapy. MATERIAL AND METHODS Two hundred epilepsy patients and 200 healthy subjects were genotyped for SCN1A IVS5-91 rs3812718 G>A polymorphism using TaqMan assay. Patients were divided into drug-responsive and drug-resista...