OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the Score for Neonatal Acute Physiology and the Score for Neonatal Acute Physiology Perinatal Extension as neonatal mortality predictors in our neonatal intensive care unit, and to compare their results. METHODS: All newborn infants admitted to our neonatal intensive care unit from March 1997 through December 1998 were prospectively evaluated just at completion of 24 hour...

Residual gas saturation is one of the most important parameter in determining recovery factor of water-drive gas reservoir. Visual observation of processes occurring at the pore level in micromodels can give an insight to fluid displacements at the larger scale and also help the interpretation of production performance at reservoir scale. In this study experimental tests in a glass micromod...

background: snap-iv rating scale developed by swanson, nolan and pelham to diagnose attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (adhd). the aim of this study was determination of psychometrics specifications of this scale. methods: this was a methodological, applied and validity assessment study. one thousand students at 7 to 12 years of age in primary school in tehran city were selected by cluste...

Acrosomal assembly during spermatogenesis and acrosome reaction during sperm-oocyte interaction are unique events of vesicle synthesis, transport, and fusion leading to fertilization. SNARE complex formation is essential for membrane fusion, and vesicle-associated (v-) SNARE intertwines with target membrane (t-) SNARE to form a coiled coil that bridges two membranes and facilitates fusion. We d...

snRNA gene transcription is activated in part by recruitment of SNAP(c) to the core promoter through protein-protein contacts with the POU domain of the enhancer-binding factor Oct-1. We show that a mini-SNAP(c) consisting of a subset of SNAP(c) subunits is capable of directing both RNA polymerase II (Pol II) and Pol III snRNA gene transcription. Mini-SNAP(c) cannot be recruited by Oct-1, but b...

naesthetic drugs are often available in glass ampoules hich need to be ‘snapped open’ along the coloured bands r dot around the neck. Different manoeuvres can be mployed for opening these ampoules like snapping with humb and index finger (with or without using gauze pieces), cratching the neck of the vial with file or base of another ial and snapping open,1 using scissors2 or knife. If done F t...

We address the dynamics of a drop with viscosity lh breaking up inside another fluid of viscosity h. We track the time evolution of the drop near snap-off in the experiments and then compare with a scaling theory developed for l 1. The theory is in excellent agreement with both the experiments and the previous simulations of Lister and Stone. Finally, we also investigate the l dependence of the...

Participants in means-tested programs must periodically document eligibility through a recertification process. If all cases that fail are ineligible, the exact timing of this process should be irrelevant. We find later interview assignments for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), which leave less time to reschedule missed interviews, decrease success by 22 percent. The consequenc...