BACKGROUND The study aimed to identify the most burdensome functioning domains in depression and their differential impact on the quality of life (QoL) of individuals from nine countries in Asia, Africa, Europe, and Latin America. MATERIALS AND METHODS Data from two multi-country projects-the World Health Organization's Study on Global Ageing and Adult Health (SAGE) and the Collaborative Rese...

For X > 0 and k > 0 we present a method which permits us to obtain inequalities of the type (it + a)x_l < T(k + \)/T(k + 1) < (k + ß)x'x, with the usual notation for the gamma function, where a and ß are independent of k. Some examples are also given which improve well-known inequalities. Finally, we are also able to show in some cases that the values a and ß in the inequalities that we obtain ...

(REE,Y) phosphates were synthesized in a 1 atm furnace by ß ux-growth methods involving Pb-free ß uxes. Microcrystalline (REE,Y) phosphate was precipitated from a solution of (REE,Y) chlorides or nitrates plus ammonium dihydrogen phosphate, and mixed with a M2CO3 (M = Li or Na)-MoO3 ß ux (75:25:2 molar ratio M2CO3:MoO3:REEPO4). Crystal growth was achieved over the temperature range 1350–870 °C,...

Type 1 diabetes mellitus results from a cell-mediated autoimmune attack against pancreatic ß-cells. Traditional treatments involve numerous daily insulin dosages/injections and rigorous glucose control. Many efforts toward the identification of ß-cell precursors have been made not only with the aim of understanding the physiology of islet regeneration, but also as an alternative way to produce ...

BACKGROUND Medical staff's influence on patient outcomes has become a subject of interest. We evaluated experienced midwives and compared their performance concerning perineal lacerations (PL). METHODS In a retrospective cohort study, 1937 women with singleton pregnancies who had delivered spontaneously with a cephalic presentation by experienced midwives in the Medical University of Vienna f...

Introduction The Lathyrus/lathyrism challenge is broad-based by its nature and requires multi-disciplinary efforts of specialists in the field of epidemiology, neurology, biochemistry, chemistry, nutrition, and agronomy. The role of chemists is in systematic determination of minor natural products in L. sativus seeds so that the sole responsibility of ß-ODAP for neurolathyrism is ascertained . ...

Therapy in nuclear medicine practice has a long distinguished history. Nuclear medicine therapy is required to be highly specific and targeted, since it always involves administration of unsealed sources of radioactivity. Most therapy agents utilize ß-particle emissions for their ability to penetrate tissues. This deposition of energy in tissue by ß emitters results in cellular damage. Among th...

Background: Transforming growth factor (TGF)-β is over-expressed in a wide variety of cancers such as lung adenocarcinoma. TGF-β plays a major role in cancer progression through regulating cancer cell proliferation and remodeling of the tumor micro-environment. However, it is still a great challenge to explain the phenotypic effects caused by TGF-β stimulation and the effect of TGF-β stimulatio...

Sickle cell disease (SCD) and ß-thalassemia represent the most common hemoglobinopathies caused, respectively, by the alteration of structural features or deficient production of the ß-chain of the Hb molecule. Other hemoglobinopathies are characterized by different mutations in the α- or ß-globin genes and are associated with anemia and might require periodic or chronic blood transfusions. The...