Introduction: This study correlated the effect of witnessing a cardiac arrest and instituting bystander CPR (ByCPR), as a secondary end point in a study evaluating the effect of bicarbonate on survival. Methods: This prospective, randomised, double blinded clinical intervention trial enrolled 874 prehospital cardiopulmonary arrest patients encountered in a prehospital urban, suburban, and rural...

The Malaysian government ratified the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control in 2005, committing itself to implement strong tobacco control policies. Pictorial health warnings (PHWs) were introduced with the enactment of the Control of Tobacco Product (Amendment) Regulations (CTPR) 2008. It stipulated that cigarette packs sold in Malaysia should have six rotating PHWs occupying 40% of the ...

In [HL4] we study Yang-Mills functional on the space of connections on a principal GR-bundle over a closed, connected, nonorientable surface, where GR is any compact connected Lie group. In this sequel, we generalize the discussion in [AB] and [HL4]. We obtain explicit descriptions (as representation varieties) of Morse strata of Yang-Mills functional on orientable and nonorientable surfaces fo...

We know that there is an isomorphism between the moduli space of gauge equivalence classes of flat G-connections on a compact surface and the moduli space of representations from the fundamental group of the surface to G acted on by the adjoint action (cf: Goldman[G]). It is known that if G is compact, semi-simple and simply connected, the moduli space of gauge equivalence classes of flat G-con...

The irritation of cosmetics and their ingredients on lips has mostly been estimated by using human lips. However, human tests are a heavy burden on subjects, making it difficult to evaluate multiple samples. Therefore, it was examined whether the HeLa-MTT assay, which is used as a substitution method for eye irritation test, could be used as a method for evaluating the irritation on lips. Oils ...

In [AB], Atiyah and Bott studied Yang-Mills functional over a Riemann surface from the point of view of Morse theory. We generalize their study to all closed, compact, connected, possibly nonorientable surfaces.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Human identification is the forensic odontologist's primary duty in the fields like violent crime, child abuse, elder abuse, missing persons and mass disaster scenarios. In each context, dental traits may produce compelling evidence to aid victim identity, suspect identity and narrow down the outcome of investigative casework. Sometimes it becomes necessary to apply so...

187 Ziekenhuis Netwerk Antwerpen campus Middelheim, Antwerpen, Belgium, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Université catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium, AZ Turnhout, Turnhout, Belgium, Cliniques Universitaires du Sart Tilman, Université de Liège, Liège, Belgium, UZ Brussel, Brussel, Belgium, Centre Hospitalier Jolimont-Lobbes, La Louvière, Belgium, Institut Bordet, Université Libre de B...

Karima Issara, Zouhour Boughaleb, Nezha Tawfiq, Zineb Bouchbika, Nadia Benchakroun, Hassan Jouhadi, Souha Sahraoui, Abdellatif Benider Centre Mohammed VI de Traitement des Cancers, CHU Ibn Rochd, Faculté de Médecine et Pharmacie, Université Hassan II, Casablanca, Maroc Corresponding author: Karima Issara, Centre Mohammed VI de Traitement des Cancers, CHU Ibn Rochd, Faculté de Médecine et Pharma...

A number of ecological studies have found a pattern of increasing suicide rates after suicides of several Asian entertainment celebrities. However, the finding may be subject to positive outcome bias where cases with no perceived impact may be routinely excluded. In this study, we deploy interrupted time-series analysis using ARIMA transfer function models to investigate systematically the impa...