BACKGROUND As a result of low numbers and diversity in study type, occupational health intervention studies are not easy to locate in electronic literature databases. AIM To develop a search strategy that facilitates finding occupational health intervention studies in Medline, both for researchers and practitioners. METHODS A gold standard of articles was created by going through two whole ...

The centralizer C(w) of an element w in a Weyl group W plays an important role in the structure and representation theory of split reductive groups G over finite and p-adic fields k, where W is the absolute Weyl group of G. If k is finite, this is well-known: the element w determines a maximal ktorus Tw ⊂ G and C(w) may be identified with the k-rational points in the Weyl group W (Tw, G) of Tw ...

In this work, the adsorption of the anionic dye, Congo red (CR), from aqueous solution by using tea waste (TW) has been carried out at 30 °C. The equilibrium sorption isotherms and kinetics were investigated. The equilibrium adsorption was studied by the Langmuir and Freundlich models of adsorption. The experimental results manifested that the Langmuir isotherm was the best model for the adsorp...

Heterozygous Twirler (Tw) mice develop obesity and circling behavior associated with malformations of the inner ear, whereas homozygous Tw mice have cleft palate and die shortly after birth. Zeb1 is a zinc finger protein that contributes to mesenchymal cell fate by repression of genes whose expression defines epithelial cell identity. This developmental pathway is disrupted in inner ears of Tw/...

Let Ei be a collection of i.i.d. exponential random variables. Bouchaud’s model on Z is a Markov chain X(t) whose transition rates are given by wij = ν exp(−β((1 − a)Ei − aEj)) if i, j are neighbours in Z. We study the behaviour of two correlation functions: P[X(tw + t) = X(tw)] and P [ X(t) = X(tw)∀t′ ∈ [tw, tw + t] ] . We prove the (sub)aging behaviour of these functions when β > 1 and a ∈ [0...

Objective: To observe the clinical efficacy and safety of low dose tacrolimus (TAC) combined with tripterygium (TW) in treatment of steroid resistant nephritic syndrome (SRNS). Method: The patients, who were diagnosed with mesangial proliferative glomerulonephritis (MesPGN) and focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS) by biopsy and failed to respond to a 3-month treatment with prednisone (1 mg...

Background Continuous electroencephalography (CEEG) monitoring is used for detection of convulsive and nonconvulsive seizures and assessing the degree of encephalopathy in critically ill patients. A commonly seen encephalopathic pattern on CEEG is generalized periodic discharges with triphasic wave (TW) morphology. The underlying role and prognostic significance of TW in relationship to intracr...

Tripterygium wilfordii (TW) and the representative active component triptolide show positive therapeutic effect on the autoimmune disorders and simultaneously ineluctable hepatotoxicity and nephrotoxicity. Combinational application of Panax notoginseng (PN) and Rehmannia glutinosa (RG) weakens the toxicity of TW according the clinical application of traditional Chinese medicine. This article wa...

BACKGROUND Effective, low-cost approaches are needed to enhance dietary behavior change. While both video and tailoring technology have been effective interventions to improve diet, these approaches have never been combined to study the effectiveness of tailored videos. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the results of Good For You!, a randomized trial that tested the efficacy of innovativ...