abstract objective: to investigate the anesthesia-postoperative awakening time (at) of hepatitis- related cirrhosis patients and their relations to grading scores, portal venous pressure (pvp), prealbumin (pa), and age, to predict postoperative at and provide a basis for adjustment of anesthetic doses during operation. methods: atotal of 71 patients with hepatic cirrhosis and hypersplenism at a...

Objectives − To assess the effect of auditory and speech rehabilitation according to revised Category Auditory Performance (CAP) Speech Intelligibility Rating (SIR) score in patients who underwent Cochlear Implant (CI) surgery at a tertiary care centre Central India.Patients Methods This was retrospective interventional study conducted Department Pediatrics Otorhinolaryngology Chirayu Medical C...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE WM lesion segmentation is often performed with the use of subjective rating scales because manual methods are laborious and tedious; however, automated methods are now available. We compared the performance of total lesion volume grading computed by use of an automated WM lesion segmentation algorithm with that of subjective rating scales and expert manual segmentation in...

The number of fraud occurrences in electronic banking is rising each year. Experts the field cybercrime are continuously monitoring and verifying network infrastructure transaction systems. Dedicated threat response teams (CSIRTs) used by organizations to ensure security stop cyber attacks. Financial institutions well aware this have increased funding for CSIRTs antifraud software. If company h...

in this paper data were collected from 120 farmers in north khorassan province for the two periods (2005-2007) in order to survey the role of rain-fed lentil risk profile for designing an insurance model. to evaluate looses of each risk, risk frequency, risk impact criteria’s as well as risk matrix were used. results showed that low risk was the largest risk area. during study period, a decreas...

BACKGROUND Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) has been used for treatment-resistant depression. However, predictors of response to ECT have not been adequately studied using the Montgomery and Åsberg Depression Rating Scale, especially in older patients with treatment-resistant depression. METHODS This study included 18 Japanese patients who fulfilled the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Men...

the bender-gestalt test was given to thirty mentally-retarded psychiatric patients. the mean, standard deviation, and standard error were 56.73, 26.25, and 4.80 respectively. rotation was the most frequent major deviation which occurred in all the designs. design # 7 was the most difficult one to be reproduced in the sample. this design by itself, was subject to 47% of distortion, 79% of omissi...