CONTEXT Dyad practice may be as effective as individual practice during clinical skills training, improve students' confidence, and reduce costs of training. However, there is little evidence that dyad training is non-inferior to single-student practice in terms of skills transfer. OBJECTIVES This study was conducted to compare the effectiveness of simulation-based ultrasound training in pair...

The dyad comprising eye anomalies and congenital heart defects in the same newborn has been proposed as the best sentinel phenotype for the early detection of rubella embryopathy. Time-space birth prevalence distributions of the eye-heart dyad were described in 36 Brazilian hospitals from the Latin-American Collaborative Study of Congenital Anomalies - ECLAMC network, for the period 1994-2008. ...

A new tetrathiafulvalene-anthracene dyad 1 with two "tetraethylene glycol" units was synthesized and characterized. Strong chemiluminescence was observed upon reaction of dyad 1 with singlet oxygen (1O2), and this reaction shows fairly good selectivity toward 1O2 over other reactive oxygen species. Due to the introduction of two hydrophilic "tetraethylene glycol" units, the detection of 1O2 wit...

The pain-depression dyad is becoming widespread in the clinic and is attracting increasing attention. A previous study by our group found that 100-Hz electro-acupuncture (EA), but not 2-, 50- and 2/100-Hz EA, was effective against the reserpine-induced pain-depression dyad. This finding is in contrast to the fact that low-frequency EA is commonly used to treat supraspinal-originating diseases. ...

Gene expression in lambdoid phages in part is controlled by transcription antitermination. For most lambdoid phages, maximal expression of delayed early genes requires an RNA polymerase modified by the phage N and host Nus proteins at RNA NUT sites. The NUT sites (NUTL and NUTR) are made up of three elements: BOXA, BOXB and an intervening spacer sequence. We report on N antitermination in H-19B...

Aims and objectives: The aim of this in vitro study was to evaluate self-adhering composite Dyad flow (Kerr, USA) as a pit and fissure sealant. The objectives were to assess the degree of microleakage with self-adhering composite Dyad flow and that with Fissurit F as pit and fissure sealants and, to compare the same between these two materials. Materials and Methods: 20 premolars extracted for ...

We investigated the effects of dyadic training on medical students' resuscitation performance during cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) training.We provided students with a 2-hour training session on CPR for simulated cardiac arrest. Student teams were split into double groups (Dyad training groups: Groups A and B) or Single Groups. All groups received 2 CPR simulation rounds. CPR simulation t...

Training in pairs (dyad practice) has been shown to improve efficiency of clinical skills training compared with single practice but little is known about students' perception of dyad practice. The aim of this study was to explore the reactions and attitudes of medical students who were instructed to work in pairs during clinical skills training. A follow-up pilot survey consisting of four open...

Transcription of the rat tyrosine hydroxylase (TH) gene is controlled by enhancer sequences in its 5' flanking region; these enhancers include the AP1, dyad, and cAMP response element (CRE) motifs. We show that a novel basal promoter element (-17 GCCTGCCTGGCGA -5) positioned between the TATA box and +1 works in conjunction with the upstream AP1-dyad and CRE enhancers but cannot support transcri...