BACKGROUND 1974-2005 studies across Sierra Leone showed onchocerciasis endemicity in 12 of 14 health districts (HDs) and baseline studies 2005-2008 showed lymphatic filariasis (LF) endemicity in all 14 HDs. Three integrated annual mass drug administration (MDA) were conducted in the 12 co-endemic districts 2008-2010 with good geographic, programme and drug coverage. Midterm assessment was condu...

BACKGROUND Coadministration of mometasone furoate (MF) and formoterol fumarate (F) produces additive effects for improving symptoms and lung function and reduces exacerbations in patients with asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The present study assessed the relative systemic exposure to MF and characterized the pharmacokinetics of MF and formoterol in patients with COPD. ...

In this paper, we study the left orthogonal class of max-flat modules which are homological objects related to s-pure exact sequences and module homomorphisms. Namely, a right $A$ is called MF-projective if ${Ext}^{1}_{R}(A,B)=0$ for any $R$-module $B$, strongly ${Ext}^{i}_{R}(A,B)=0$ all $R$-modules $B$ $i\geq 1$. Firstly, give some properties $MF$-projective SMF-projective modules. Then intro...

background: diagnosis of the early phase of mycosis fungoides (mf) is sometimes difficult. loss of cd7 expression is considered a distinguishing characteristic of mf. the aim of this study was to determine the range of cd7 expression in mf and compare the results with benign inflammatory dermatosis and equivocal cases of possible mf.   methods: during a period of 30 months, we examined 15 patie...

Mean-field backward stochastic Volterra integral equations (MF-BSVIEs, for short) are introduced and studied. Well-posedness of MF-BSVIEs in the sense of introduced adapted Msolutions is established. Two duality principles between linear mean-field (forward) stochastic Volterra integral equations (MF-FSVIEs, for short) and MF-BSVIEs are obtained. Several comparison theorems for MF-FSVIEs and MF...

AIM To investigate the effects of a magnetic field (MF) on febrile seizure latency, seizure duration, and electroencephalographic (EEG) recordings in a rat febrile convulsion model. MATERIALS AND METHODS Thirty-six rats were randomly allocated into 1 of 6 groups: sham group (S), febrile convulsion (FC) group without MF exposure, MF group without FC, group exposed to MF before FC (MF + FC), gr...

ABSTRACT This study sought, through a factor analysis of 450 masculine-feminine (MF) items from nine established sources such as the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MNK), to determine whether in a college sample of 523 students there were a small number of factors common to both sexes, or if the MF scale consisted of so many weak factors that the practice of giving people scores on...

Magnetic field (MF) has had many therapeutic usages in traditional medicine. Today, it is used to accelerate the recovery period after surgical operations by some medical centers and in some horse-training farms in the world. There are some scientific reports on the alternative effect of MF on nervous system function, convulsion, pain, neurons, embryonic cells and immune system cells. For this ...