objective: experiencing ‎pleasant events during daily life ‎has a significant positive role in ‎the personal mental health and ‎acts as a keystone for “behavioral ‎activation” (ba) interventions. ‎there are serious differences in ‎the pleasant event schedules in ‎different cultures and countries. ‎we aimed to develop a persian ‎checklist of pleasant events ‎‎(pcpe) to provide and validate a ‎cu...

Outlays for health care in the nation reached $212.2 billion in calender year 1979--12.5 percent higher than in 1978, according to preliminary figures compiled by the Health Care Financing Administration. This estimate represented $943 per person in the United States and was equal to 9.0 percent of the Gross National Product. This latest report in the annual series representing national health ...

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the levels of ferritin, an acute-phase reactant, in predicting the risk of dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF) in patients with dengue infection. One hundred seventy-seven Thai children (100 males, 77 females) 4-16 years old (median age 11 years) with DF (n = 44) and DHF (n = 133) were enrolled in the study. All patients had serologic confirmation of dengue ...

2014 A simulation of a cold technology ( 950 °C) has been analysed by X-ray topography at different stages of its elaboration. It is shown first that an elastic deformation occurs straight below the edges of the film pattern. Then, point defects are generated at the polysilicon-silicon interface upon oxidation. Finally the crystalline quality is perturbed in the whole bulk wafer upon further ch...

1) National Agricultural Research Center for the Western Region, WeNARC, NARO, 1-3-1 Senyu, Zentsuji, Kagawa 765-8508, Japan 2) National Institute of Crop Science, NICS, NARO, 2-1-18 Kannondai, Tsukuba Ibaraki 305-8518, Japan 3) National Agricultural Research Center, NARC, NARO, 1-2-1, Inada, Joetsu, Niigata 943-0193, Japan 4) Present address: 1327 Ashiro Higashimiyoshi, Tokushima 771-2502, Jap...

The efficacy of adjuvant radiotherapy for the treatment of triple negative breast cancer patients with varying numbers of positive lymph nodes is not clear. We assessed the association between adjuvant radiotherapy and survival in 943 T1/T2 triple negative breast cancer patients treated at our institute between 2008 and 2012. We determined that post-operative radiotherapy improved overall survi...

Two antibiotics isolated from a culture MA-2465 were identified as aureothin and labilomycin, the chemical structures of which had been reported previously. It was also concluded that mycolutein and pulvomycin isolated as antibiotics in 1955 and 1957 respectively are also identical with aureothin and labilomycin. A cursory study of MA-2465 indicates that it is distinctly different from the cult...

Lithium niobate on insulator (LNOI), as an emerging and promising optical integration platform, faces shortages of on-chip active devices including lasers amplifiers. Here, we report the fabrication erbium-doped LNOI waveguide amplifiers based electron beam lithography inductively coupled plasma reactive ion etching. A net internal gain ~30 dB/cm in communication band was achieved fabricated un...