Concentrations of cefaclor (CFC) or amoxicillin-clavulanic acid (AMX/CA) in middle-ear fluid collected preserving the stability and clearing the cell contents has been compared to those obtained using the traditional method. Sixty-seven children with effusive otitis media were treated orally with CFC (20 mg/kg of body weight) or AMX/CA (20 mg/kg) (4:1 ratio). The concentrations in cell-free flu...

he nasopalatine duct cyst (NPDC) is a condition of nondontogenic development arising from the proliferation of pithelial remnants of the nasopalatine duct, which exists hroughout fetal life, and tends to regress after birth. In ome cases, remnants may remain, proliferate, and give ise to a cyst.1,2 It is a rare condition, usually affecting ales between 30 and 60 years of age.3 It is usually asy...

This is the third and final article in our series about oral and pharyngeal cancer (OPC) in Florida1, 2 for Today’s FDA. This article adds to the literature by examining and reporting on survival rates of OPC by geographic regions in Florida and identifies a group with poor survival. We also highlight the results of a targeted media campaign that was designed to increase OPC examinations among ...

Drosophila melanogaster is a powerful experimental model system for studying the function of the nervous system. Gene mutations that cause dysfunction of the nervous system often produce viable larvae and adults that have locomotion defective phenotypes that are difficult to adequately describe with text or completely represent with a single photographic image. Current modes of scientific publi...

BACKGROUND The OM6 is a 6-item condition-specific handicap measure developed in the United States for children with recurrent acute otitis media and otitis media with effusion. Easy and quick to use, it has high test-retest repeatability and is sensitive to change after ventilation tube insertion. OBJECTIVES To explore aspects of the validity of OM6 in a United Kingdom population and to speci...

This paper investigated the awareness and utilization of instructional media (IM) based on gender of the lecturers of tertiary institutions in Nigeria. It was a descriptive type of survey research. All lecturers of Colleges of Education in Southwest geo‐political zone of Nigeria formed the population. Some 621 lecturers were randomly selected. There were two instruments for the study. ...

This paper describes ome further attempts to identify and measure those parameters in the speech signal that reflect the emotional state of a speaker. High-quality recordings were obtained of professional "method" actors reading the dialogue of a short scenario specifically written to contain various emotional situations. Excerpted portions of the recordings were subjected to both quantitative ...

The reaction of Sm{N(SiMe3)2}3 with the bis(phenol)amines H2O2N(R) (H2O2N(R) = RCH2CH2N(2-HO-3,5-C6H2(t)Bu2)2; R = OMe, NMe2 or Me) gave exclusively zwitterions Sm(O2N(R))(HO2N(R)). For R = OMe or NMe2 these were efficient catalysts for the ring-opening polymerisation of epsilon-caprolactone and D,L-lactide with a tendency to form cyclic esters; in contrast, no polymerisation was observed for R...