BACKGROUND The twelve step program is one of the programs that are administered for overcoming abuse of drugs. In this study, the effectiveness of chemical dependency counseling course was investigated using a hybrid model. METHODS In a survey with sample size of 243, participants were selected using stratified random sampling method. A questionnaire was used for collecting data and one sampl...

Varicoceles are the leading correctable cause of infertility in men who present to an infertility clinic for evaluation. Consequently, the surgical correction of a varicocele, known as a varicocelectomy, is the most commonly performed operation for the treatment of male infertility. The current data suggest that an individual with a varicocele, even with a previously normal semen analysis or do...

O ver the past 25 years, thrombolytic therapy has consistently demonstrated improvement in hemodynamic parameters in patients with pulmonary embolism (PE). 1 Clinically, although it results in reduced mortality in patients with massive PE, 2 thrombolytic therapy is not beneficial in unselected patients with PE. 3 Major societal guidelines support systemic throm-bolysis for massive PE and recomm...

Today’s business world is fast-paced, and successful organizations must innovate, especially as technologies become ever more crucial to securing market success. Research in the fields of leadership and organization design illustrates that innovativeness is a competency advanced by particular kinds of leadership and through specific organization designs. Similarly, research displays how cultura...

The aim of this paper is to study the power of parallel multiset-rewriting systems with permitting or forbidding context (or P systems with non-cooperative rules with promoters or inhibitors). The main results obtained say that if we use promoters or inhibitors of weight two, then the systems are computational universal. Moreover, both constructions satisfy a special property we define: they ar...

BACKGROUND We have previously demonstrated that both coming from a rural background and spending a year-long clinical rotation in our Rural Clinical School (RCS) have independent and additive effects to increase the likelihood of medical students practicing rurally following graduation. The current study assesses the extent to which medical school selection criteria and/or the socio-demographic...

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation Apparent neoplasm of the clavicle of a dialysis patient, ultimately revealed as tuberculosis

the formation of epidermal cysts which ultimately undergo destruction (3, 4). Application of @2Omethyicholanthrene to the epidermis of young adult mice previous to transplantation stimulated epithelial growth in cutaneous and subcutaneous grafts made from skin thus treated. These grafts were likewise destroyed, unless the epithelium had, in the course of painting, acquired neoplastic properties...

The construction of a democratic, universal and integrated health service for the entire Brazilian population is one of the key principles of Brazil’s Unified National Health System (SUS Sistema Único de Saúde). Within this perspective, several strategies that include territorial and epidemiology-based planning, health surveillance programs, effective financial management and regulation policie...

Fragile X Syndrome (FXS) is a heritable form of mental retardation caused by a non-coding trinucleotide expansion of the FMR1 gene leading to loss of expression of this RNA binding protein. Mutations in this gene are strongly linked to enhanced Group I metabotropic glutamate receptor (mGluR) signaling. A recent report found that mGluR5-dependent endogenous cannabinoid signaling is enhanced in h...