OBJECTIVE To detect the serum levels of folate and B12 in both preclamptic and normotensive pregnant women and to determine whether there is any relation between these levels with the uterine and umbilical artery Doppler indices as well as the pregnancy outcome. MATERIAL AND METHODS This case controlled study comprised 79 pregnant patients with preeclampsia and 113 healthy, normotensive pregn...

Spiral analysis is an objective, easy to administer noninvasive test that has been proposed to measure motor dysfunction in Parkinson disease (PD). We compared overall Unified Parkinson Disease Rating Scale Part III scores to selected indices derived from spiral analysis in seventy-four patients with early PD (mean duration of disease 2.4 +/- 1.7 years, mean age 61.5 +/- 9.7 years). Of the spir...

The velocity and acceleration of aortic blood flow were measured by means of a catheter velocity probe in 40 patients during routine diagnostic cardiac catheterization. Ten different variables were derived from the aortic velocity measurements, and their ability to discriminate between good and bad left ventricular (LV) function was tested. By means of eight conventional indices of LV function ...

This study was undertaken to investigate the relation between abdominal fat and serum biochemical indices in chicken. In the study, 120 chickens at 12 weeks of age from Anka and Rugao breeds were used. They were reared under the same environment and management. Blood samples were taken, the serum was harvested by centrifugation, and then the total cholesterol (TCH), triglycerides (TG), and high...

Bi-factor confirmatory factor models have been influential in research on cognitive abilities because they often better fit the data than correlated factors and higher-order models. They also instantiate a perspective that differs from that offered by other models. Motivated by previous work that hypothesized an inherent statistical bias of fit indices favoring the bi-factor model, we compared ...

Earned value management (EVM) is widely used when monitoring and estimating operations related to construction projects. As the scope complexity of projects expand, traditional EVM sometimes ineffective even results in conclusions that are contrary actual situation. Additionally, estimate produced by a deterministic does not account for uncertainty activities involved project. This study propos...

ROY C. MONTIJN,† EDWIN VINK, WALLY H. MÜLLER, ARIE J. VERKLEIJ, HERMAN VAN DEN ENDE, BERNARD HENRISSAT, AND FRANS M. KLIS* Swammerdam Institute of Life Science, University of Amsterdam, BioCentrum Amsterdam, Amsterdam 1098 SM, and Department of Molecular Cell Biology, University of Utrecht, 3584 CH Utrecht, The Netherlands, and Architecture et Fonction des Macromolécules Biologiques, CNRS-IFR1,...

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The prognosis of paraquat (PQ) poisoning is highly correlated to plasma PQ concentration, which has been identified as the most important index in PQ poisoning. This study investigated the predictive value of coagulation, liver, and kidney indices in prognosticating PQ-poisoning patients, when aligned with plasma PQ concentrations. Coagulation, liver, and kidney indices were first analyzed by v...

A reliable electronic voting machine (EVM) is proposed and implemented in this study, which integrated with a biometric fingerprint scanner to ensure secure election process. This EVM includes features such as an interactive user interface, hack-free design master lock. The system has the capability of registering data storing it database through proper authentication. Moreover, lowers requirem...