The death in London of the former secret service agent Alexander Livtinenko on 23 November 2006 generally attracted the attention of the public to the rather unknown radionuclide (210)Po. This paper presents the results of a monitoring programme of (210)Po background levels in the urines of noncontaminated people living in Central Italy (near the Republic of S. Marino). The relationship between...

OBJECTIVES To examine the relationship between training, anthropometric characteristics, tapering, and time performance for a half-Ironman distance race. DESIGN Cross sectional study in triathletes. METHODS Data were obtained for 209 participants (155 males; 54 females) competing in a half-Ironman triathlon. Participants provided information regarding triathlon experience, training, race pr...

Background: Neck roots lesion is one of the reasons for cervical and arm pain. A detailed patient evaluation could improve diagnose, reduce imaging requests, and speedy treatment of cervical pain. We tried to estimate the utility of pronator teres reflex in C6 and C7 roots irritation. Methods: Present study is composed of 118 participants including 56 with C6 and C7 lesion and 62 normal contro...

objective: to determine the diagnostic value of serum white blood cell (wbc) count, fever (>38˚c) and wbc rise (>10%) for bacterial meningitis in patients with severe traumatic brain injury (tbi). m et h o d : this cross-sectional study was conducted in shahid rajaei hospital affiliated with shiraz university of medical sciences during a 1-year period from 2013 to 2014. we included consecutivel...

Clotting Factor VII activity emerges as a highly significant predictive factor for development of cardiovascular disease (CVD) In prospective trials. We have previously shown that In hypertriglyceridemlc Individuals a fraction of their clotting Factor VII molecules is present in an activated state In phosphollpase C-sensitive complexes in plasma. These complexes may explain the increased Factor...

BACKGROUND: Glioma is the most common primary malignant brain tumor. Nuclear factor κB (NF-κB) has emerged as a regulator of phenotype in glioma, and particular glioblastoma multiforme, with clear relation to tumor size, recurrence, invasiveness. AIM: The aim study was analysis NF-κB expression gliomas different histologic types grades its correlation various clinicopathologic indicators. METHO...

Nine individual generic risk factors, eight combinations of generic risk factors, the presence of any generic risk factor, and the Strain Index were evaluated for 56 jobs by 2 evaluators blinded to morbidity measures. Jobs then were assigned to dichotomous hazard classifications (problem versus safe) according to recommendations from the literature. OSHA 200 logs were used to ascertain historic...