Methods We analyzed medical records of 78 children, admitted to Chungnam National University Hospital and diagnosed with lobar pneumonia by chest X-rays between March 2010 and December 2011. White blood cells, C-reactive protein (CRP), procalcitonin (PCT), specific antibodies to M. pneumoniae, and cold agglutinin (CA) were measured at admission. Children were divided into 2 groups: those with M...

OBJECTIVE Implementation fidelity is a key issue in home-visiting programs as it determines a program's effectiveness in accomplishing its original goals. This paper seeks to evaluate fidelity in a 27-month program addressing maternal and child health which took place in France between 2006 and 2011. METHOD To evaluate implementation fidelity, home visit case notes were analyzed using themati...

BACKGROUND/AIMS Intestinal metaplasia (IM) is a common finding at the oesophagogastric junction, but the aetiopathogenesis of the different IM subtypes-that is, incomplete IM (specialised columnar epithelium, SCE) and complete IM- and their associations with gastro-oesophageal reflux disease and Helicobacter pylori gastritis are unclear. METHODS 1058 consecutive dyspeptic patients undergoing ...

We develop a multi-step workflow for the discovery of conventional superconductors, starting with Bardeen Cooper Schrieffer inspired pre-screening 1736 materials high Debye temperature and electronic density states. Next, we perform electron-phonon coupling calculations 1058 them to establish large systematic database BCS superconducting properties. Using McMillan-Allen-Dynes formula, identify ...

We study the local eigenvalue statistics $$\xi _{\omega ,E}^N$$ associated with eigenvalues of one-dimensional, $$(2N+1) \times (2N+1)$$ random band matrices independent, identically distributed, real variables and width growing as $$N^\alpha $$ , for $$0< \alpha < \frac{1}{2}$$ . consider limit points ,E}^N [I]$$ $$I \subset \mathbb {R}$$ $$E \in (-2,2)$$ For Gaussian distributed $$0 \le \frac...

Disease relevant entities are an important task in mining unstructured text data from the biomedical literature for achieving knowledge. Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a disease related to neurological and developmental characterized by deficits communication social interaction repetitive behaviour. However, this kind of remains unclear date. In study, it identifies associated with using mac...

DREB (dehydration-responsive element-binding protein) transcription factors have important roles in the stress-related regulation network in plants. A DREB orthologue, GmDREB3, belonging to the A-5 subgroup of the DREB subfamily, was isolated from soybean using the RACE (rapid amplification of cDNA ends) method. Northern blot analysis showed that expression of GmDREB3 in soybean seedlings was i...

The purpose of this study is to develop a domain-specific scale that would be used determine epistemological beliefs university students towards online learning media. In the developed are designed as multidimensional reflect both belief system perspective and developmental perspectives revised by Hofer Pintrich (1997). 1058 volunteer attended remote classes during Covid-19 pandemic participate...