The objective of the study was to examine the effects of overweight and obesity on times to recovery among Canadian youth who have suffered one or more types of injury. The data source was the 2002 Canadian Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children (HBSC) survey. The study population included 7266 youth in grades 6 through 10 sampled from all Canadian provinces and territories. Of these, 2831 st...

The intervertebral disc maintains a balance between externally applied loads and internal osmotic pressure. Fluid flow plays a key role in this process, causing fluctuations in disc hydration and height. The objectives of this study were to quantify and model the axial creep and recovery responses of nondegenerate and degenerate human lumbar discs. Two experiments were performed. First, a slow ...

We aimed to examine whether there is a correlation between the health recovery of industrial accident victims and their perceived socioeconomic status. Data were obtained from the first Panel Study of Worker's Compensation Insurance, which included 2,000 participants. We performed multivariate regression analysis and determined the odds ratios for participants with a subjectively lower socioeco...

as igm and iga-enriched preparations are needed to complete the immunotherapeutic spectrum, a simple procedure is described for the preparation of igm and iga enriched immunoglobulins. fraction iii which was prepared by cold ethanol fractionation was treated by octanoic acid followed by ethanol precipitation and ion-exchange chromatography using sephadex deae a-50 and 0.1 m tris-d.35m naci buff...

acetone fractionated peroxidase from crude extract of brassica oleracea leaves (cabbage) was purified in three steps on chromatographic columns, using sp-sepharose, deae-sepharose and con a-sepharose. the specific activity of purified main isoenzyme (boc-pod) is 1887 u/mg protein with rz: 3.1, which is 172 times more than the rz of crude extract with 4.3% recovery. the molecular weight of boc-p...

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has identified the four phases of disaster related planning as mitigation, preparation, response, and recovery. The recovery phase is characterized by activity to return life to normal or improved levels. Very little research considers the recovery phase, which encompasses restoring services and rebuilding disaster stricken areas of the highway tra...

Recovery is a ubiquitous concept but remains poorly understood and ill defined, hindering the development of assessment tools necessary to evaluate treatment effectiveness. This study examines recovery definitions and experiences among persons who self-identify as "in recovery." Two questions are addressed: (a) Does recovery require total abstinence from all drugs and alcohol? (b) Is recovery d...

We have studied 20 infants, aged 2.5-8 weeks, undergoing general anaesthesia for pyloromyotomy with either desflurane or isoflurane. Patients were anaesthetized with equivalent 1 MAC values for age and agent. A blinded observer recorded times to breathing, swallowing, movement, extubation and side effects after discontinuation of the agent. Recovery times in the desflurane group were significan...

Amid the recent interest in the role of membrane viscosity in the deformation of a fluid-filled capsule, we consider the role of various capsule properties (shear elasticity, membrane bending stiffness and viscosity) in determining the response and recovery times of a spherical capsule in shear flow. These times are determined by fitting exponential functions to results for the Taylor deformati...

We compared the techniques of volatile induction and maintenance (VIMA) and total intravenous anaesthesia (TIVA) in various aspects. Patients undergoing spontaneous respiration-general anaesthesia were randomised into two groups; Group P received iv fentanyl 1 mg/kg and propofol 2 mg/kg for induction followed by propofol 10 mg/min as required. Group S received vital capacity induction with sevo...