Obesity and its related emotional and physical consequences are a worldwide problem. Obese individuals are usually stigmatized. This study is proposed to assess the correlation between body mass index, gender and age with psychiatric symptoms among Iranian students. A number of 9172 students aged 10-18 years (53.5% girls and 46.5% boys) from all provinces of Iran participated in this study. Dat...

The University of Southern California (USC) Nohl Division of Hematology and Center for the Study of Blood Diseases seeks faculty members interested in research in novel treatment approaches for blood cancers, including chimeric antigen receptors, synthetic biology, genome engineering, induced hematopoietic stem cells, allogeneic stem cell graft engineering, adoptive cell therapy, TCR gene thera...

I analyze a model of interest group influence on legislative voting through information transmission. The model shows how interest groups may craft different messages to target different winning coalitions in order to influence the outcome. If access to legislators is costly then interest groups prefer to coordinate with allied legislators by providing them with information that helps them to p...

In recent years there has been growing interest in composite indicators as an efficient tool of analysis and a method of prioritizing policies. This paper presents a composite index of intermediary determinants of child health using a multivariate statistical approach. The index shows how specific determinants of child health vary across Colombian departments (administrative subdivisions). We u...

Caldesmon is a major actin-binding protein identified in smooth muscle and many non-muscle cells. It also interacts with calmodulin and a number of other acidic proteins. We have shown previously that the polypeptide stretch from Val629 to Ser666 near the C terminus contains a calmodulin binding site (Wang, C.-L. A., Wang, L.-W. C., Xu, S., Lu, R. C., Saavedra-Alanis, V., and Bryan, J. (1991) J...

Aims Increasing demand and high rates of non-attendance (DNA) lengthen waiting lists for psychiatric services, a topic significant public political interest. NHS Lothian data between 2009/10 2018/19 averaged DNA rate 19% new patient appointments. Our aim was to analyse the list patients referred routine Consultant-led General Adult Psychiatry outpatient clinic appointment (OPCA) within North-We...

BACKGROUND High-dose trivalent influenza vaccine was developed to improve antibody responses to influenza vaccine in the elderly and hence potentially impact favorably on influenza-associated morbidity and mortality in this population. METHODS A phase IIIb, multicenter, randomized, double-blind, controlled trial was conducted to compare High-Dose (HD) trivalent inactivated influenza vaccine (...