BACKGROUND The human ability to envision the future, that is, to take a future perspective (FP), plays a key role in the justice motive and its function in transcending disadvantages and misfortunes. The present research investigated whether individual (Study 1) and situational (Study 2) differences in FP moderated the association of general belief in a just world (GBJW) with psychological resi...

Background: The evidence for the effectiveness and safety of inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is inconclusive. This study determined the cost effectiveness of withdrawing fluticasone propionate (FP) in outpatients with COPD. Methods: The cost effectiveness analysis was based on a randomised, placebo controlled FP withdrawal study. After a 4 month run...

Investigations of the modulation of prostaglandin F(2alpha) receptor (FP) expression in primary cultures of human uterine myocytes showed that FP mRNA expression was reduced by progesterone, unaltered by cAMP (8-bromo cAMP or forskolin), but increased by the PKA antagonist H89. Interleukin (IL)-1beta, tumour necrosis factor-alpha and oxytocin increased FP mRNA expression and IL-6 and prostaglan...

Clinical trials of a combination therapy of an inhaled corticosteroid, fluticasone propionate (FP), with a long-acting beta2-agonist, salmeterol (Sal), have demonstrated a greater improvement in lung function and in quality of life measures after the combination compared with either component of alone. In a subanalysis of the data of the TRISTAN study, Sal/FP reduced exacerbation rates in COPD ...

OBJECTIVES To test the fetal profile (FP) line, defined as the line that passes through the anterior border of the mandible and the nasion, as a reference line for forehead and mandible anomalies. METHODS Volumes of 248 normal and 24 pathological fetuses (16-36 and 19-37 weeks' gestation, respectively) were analysed retrospectively. When the FP line passes anteriorly, across or posteriorly to...

Background Cancer survivors rate fertility as one of the most important determinants of their quality of life in the years after cancer treatment. We seek to describe the reproductive goals of women affected by gynecologic cancers and investigate their specific challenges during fertility preservation (FP) counseling. Methods Univariate & multivariate logistic regression were used for quantit...

Carbon dots (CDs) were prepared from p -phenylenediamine, modified with trifluoroacetic acid, and dispersed in a fluoropolymer (FP) film. Unmodified CDs did not disperse well the FP film, resulting concentration quenching; whereas surface modification improved affinity between FP, homogeneous dispersion an photoluminescence quantum yield.

Abstract A new reconfigurable architecture for biomedical applications is presented in this paper. The targets frequently encountered functions signal processing algorithms thereby replacing multiple dedicated accelerators and reports low gate count. An optimized implementation achieved by mapping methodologies to limiting the required memory leading directly an overall minimization of proposed...

Study sample No method of subject selection was stated other than that those included were registered asthmatics at the authors' practice, and that they were first prescribed FP in 1993 (FP group) or 1994 (control group). No power calculations were stated in the determination of the study sample size. Group sizes were: 21 (FP first prescribed in 1993) and 24 (FP first prescribed in 1994). The s...

Let A be a subset of Fp , the n-dimensional linear space over the prime field Fp of size at least δN (N = p), and let Sv = P −1(v) be the level set of a homogeneous polynomial map P : Fp → Fp of degree d, for v ∈ Fp . We show, that under appropriate conditions, the set A contains at least cN |S| arithmetic progressions of length l ≤ d with common difference in Sv, where c is a positive constant...