HIV is continuum of progressive damage traversed through survival time. Using data from 204 positive women and men, we carried-out survival analysis using Kaplan– Meier curves, Cox proportional hazard regression and Markov-chain model to map CD4 progression and health-condition outcomes. Progression was better among nondefaulters {adjusted hazard ratio [AHR]-0.11, 95% CI 0.03–0.31 (Log rank p<0...

We examine the nature and predictors of social and romantic functioning in adolescents and adults with ASD. Parental reports were obtained for 25 ASD adolescents and adults (13-36 years), and 38 typical adolescents and adults (13-30 years). The ASD group relied less upon peers and friends for social (OR = 52.16, p < .01) and romantic learning (OR = 38.25, p < .01). Individuals with ASD were mor...

The HLA (Human Leucocyte Antigens) class I and class II polymorphism in a sample population of 250 Vojvodinians using standard microlymphocytotoxicity test was investigated. The antigens with the highest frequencies were: HLA-A2 (50.4%), A1 (24.1%) and A3 (22.7%); B35 (22.7%), B51(5) (16.9%) and B18 (15.6%); DR11 (5) (34.5%), DR7 (20.0%) and DR3 (19.3%); DQ1 (44.8%), DQ7 (3) (30.9%) and DQ2 (13...

STUDY OBJECTIVES To explore the sleep onset process in primary insomnia patients, new rules for scoring 4-second epochs were implemented to score sleep and artifacts during initial sleep onset. Conventional scorings in 20-second and 60-second epochs were also obtained. METHODS The start of the initial 60-second epoch of stage 1 was used to define "time zero" (t0). Sleep onset periods from 11 ...

This research explores the role of parts-of-speech (POS) in feature selection in text categorization. We compare the use of different POS, namely nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs with a feature set that contains all POS. The best results are obtained with the use of only nouns. Therefore, we make use of a WordNet-based POS feature selection approach using the nouns feature set to compare wi...

BACKGROUND American cutaneous leishmaniasis (ACL) is endemic in many rural areas of Brazil where different transmission patterns of the disease have been described. This ecological study was carried out in a municipality located in Southeast Brazil and aimed to investigate the space-temporal patterns of the disease and environmental risk factors from 1966 to 1996. METHODS Incident ACL cases w...

AIM In recent years, studies have suggested that Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is associated with HCC. The present study was to determine the prevalence of EBV in HCC patients, and whether EBV acted synergistically with hepatitis viruses in HCC carcinogenesis. METHODS Liver tissue 115 HCC patients and 26 non-carcinoma patients were studied. Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) was performed to detect E...

Climate change has emerged as a global issue and one of the world's most pressing environmental challenges. Despite contribution cement industry to releases carbon dioxide (the significant contributor GHG emissions) in Nigeria, only few research writing focused on its influence climate change. This paper, therefore, studied variation concentration (CO2) within environment Dangote Oba...

in this paper, we first define spaces of single difference sequences defined by a sequence of orlicz functions without convexity and investigate their properties. then we extend this idea to spaces of double sequences and present a new matrix theoretic approach construction of such double sequence spaces.

BACKGROUND In general having a parent who smokes or smoked is a strong and consistent predictor of smoking initiation among their children while authoritative parenting style, open communication that demonstrates mutual respect between child and parent, and parental expectations not to smoke are protective. It has been hypothesized that parental smoking affects their children's smoking initiati...