OBJECTIVE To evaluate a sample of patients with atypical facial pain (AFP) in comparison to patients with symptomatic facial pain (SFP). METHOD 41 patients with previous diagnostic of AFP were submitted to a standardized evaluation protocol, by a multidisciplinary pain team. RESULTS 21 (51.2%) were considered AFP and 20 (48.8%) (SFP) received the following diagnosis: 8 (40.0%) had temporoma...

We previously showed that nonlinear interactions between the two renal autoregulatory mechanics (tubuloglomerular feedback and the myogenic mechanism) were observed in the stop flow pressure (SFP) and whole kidney blood flow data from Sprague-Dawley rats (SDR) using time-invariant bispectrum analysis (3, 4). No such nonlinear interactions were observed in either SFP or whole kidney blood flow d...

The current study examined the independent and additive contributions of maternal sensitivity measured prior to and following a social stressor, and infant behaviors to infants' physiological response to the still-face paradigm (SFP) in a sample characterized by poverty-related environmental risk. Ninety-one mother/infant dyads participated in the SFP when their infants were 5 months old. Mater...

MOTIVATION Genomic DNA was hybridized to oligonucleotide microarrays to identify single-feature polymorphisms (SFP) for Arabidopsis, which has a genome size of approximately 130 Mb. However, that method does not work well for organisms such as barley, with a much larger 5200 Mb genome. In the present study, we demonstrate SFP detection using a small number of replicate datasets and complex RNA ...

BACKGROUND School Feeding Program (SFP) is a targeted safety net program designed to provide educational and health benefits to vulnerable children. However, limited evidence exists regarding the effect of the intervention on the nutritional status and school attendance of children. The study is aimed at examining the effects of SFP on dietary diversity, nutritional status and class attendance ...

The immune system plays an important role in maintaining and protecting human health. In the present study, comparison of immuno-modulatory activities between polysaccharides (SFP) and ethanol (SFE) extracts separated from Sargassum fulvellum in macrophages and murine splenocytes were investigated. Immuno-modulatory activities of macrophages were estimated based on cell proliferation, nitric ox...

Science Fiction Prototyping (SFP) has a lot of potential as a tool to help turn patents into innovative marketable products. The underlying assumption of this paper is that many patents from research institutions and corporations alike lie idle when it comes to their actual realization and commercialization as real products. The conceptual paper focuses on patents that are already applicationce...

The aim of this study was to develop higher-order scales for assessing sustainable supply chain management practices, innovation adoption, and firm performance in the restaurant sector. Three different were developed SSCM, SFP adoption. first scale SSCM construct consisted service–product practices (SPSSCM), service–setting (SSSSCM), service–delivery (SDSSCM). second (SFP) economic, operational...