Student athletes are a unique group that balances sporting and academic prowess with reduction in social support when moving away from home. Thus, many studies indicate student may experience higher depressive symptoms compared to the general public, sex, pain, injury status reported influence this. Therefore, this study aimed identify whether or pain predicts elevated among there interactions ...

∗ Professor and author of correspondence, Phone: (086) 022-26564242, Fax: (086)022-60204278, Email: [email protected] ABSTRACT The modularity indicates a one-to-one mapping between functional concepts and physical components. It can allow us to generate more product varieties at lower costs. Functional concepts can be described by precise syntactic structures with functional terms. Differen...

BACKGROUND Thyroid carcinomas represent the most frequent endocrine malignancies. Recent studies were able to distinguish malignant from benign nodules of the thyroid gland with diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI). Although this differentiation is undoubtedly helpful, presurgical discrimination between well-differentiated and undifferentiated carcinomas would be crucial to define the optimal treat...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The ADI is the imaging diagnostic clue to AAA subluxation of the cervical spine. Some MR imaging findings other than abnormal ADI relate to AAA subluxation. However, their relationship is not yet clarified. The present study elucidates the role of MR imaging by employing these previously overlooked findings. MATERIALS AND METHODS This study enrolled 40 patients with AAA...

This chapter is concerned with the prevalence of non-communicable chronic diseases (NCDs) such as obesity, hypertension, diabetes mellitus and coronary heart disease (CHD) due to nutrition transition and increasing urbanization in developing countries in general and in India in particular. It briefly describes the present position of rural-urban migration during 1991 to 2001 in India with speci...

BACKGROUND Dexmedetomidine provides smooth emergence with reduced agitation. The authors hypothesized low-dose dexmedetomidine infusion might contribute to hemodynamic stability during and after nasotracheal tube extubation. METHODS Ninety-three adult patients scheduled for oral and maxillofacial surgery were enrolled in this prospective study. Patients were randomly assigned to receive norma...