We investigated the factor structure of Hurlbert's Index of Sexual Narcissism (ISN) and then explored the relationship between the ISN composite score and subscales scores and various sexual constructs among 209 heterosexual male college students. An exploratory principle components factor analysis revealed four factors accounting for most of the ISN items: Sexual Knowledge and Skill, Sense of ...

An international working group of clinicians and pathologists met in 2003 under the auspices of the International Society of Nephrology (ISN) and the Renal Pathology Society (RPS) to revise and update the 1982 and 1995 World Health Organization classification of lupus glomerulonephritis. This article compares and contrasts the ISN/RPS classification and the antecedent World Health Organization ...

BACKGROUND The International Society of Nephrology/ Renal Pathology Society classification (ISN/RPS) of lupus glomerulonephritis (GN) divides diffuse GN (>/=50% involvement) into diffuse segmental (IV-S) and diffuse global GN (IV-G). This division tests whether the pathogenesis and clinical outcomes are the same as when similar patients are classified using the World Health Organization (WHO) c...

BACKGROUND In the past, lupus nephritis was histologically classified according to the 1995 WHO Classification. With the introduction of the 2003 ISN/RPS Classification, many nephropathology services converted to this new classification. This study was undertaken to compare both classification systems in a single centre practice. METHODS 103 consecutive adequate renal biopsies initially repor...

The research of impacts between the Internet stock news (ISN) and the stock price movements emerges with the era of the popular usage of the Internet. In this paper, first, the ISN is empirically related to the stock returns based on the neural networks. Second, the relationship between the significant increases of the ISN volume and the significant changes of stock prices is addressed, also im...

Wallerian degeneration is a sequence of events in the distal stump of axotomized nerves. Despite large numbers of researches concentrating on WD, the biological mechanism still remains unclear. Hence we constructed a rat model with both motor and sensory nerves injury and then conducted a RNA-seq analysis. Here the rats were divided into the 4 following groups: normal motor nerves (NMN), injure...

The title 1:1 co-crystal, C11H14O3·C6H6N2O [systematic name: butyl 4-hy-droxy-benzoate-isonicotinamide (1/1)], crystallizes with one mol-ecule of butyl-paraben (BPN) and one mol-ecule of isonicotinamide (ISN) in the asymmetric unit. In the crystal, BPN and ISN mol-ecules form hydrogen-bonded (O-H⋯N and N-H⋯O) dimers of paired BPN and ISN mol-ecules. These dimers are further connected to each ot...

The 8th ICN: The largest item looming on the agenda for the ISN is our upcoming Congress in Vancouver (July 22-27). I can tell you that we are in excellent hands with Barb Beltz chairing the Congress Committee and Cathy Rankin as the Chair of the local organizing committee. Ron Harris-Warrick and Sten Grillner are the Congress Vice-Chairs. These folks, with excellent advice from the membership ...