Protective behavioral strategies (PBS) are specific behaviors one can utilize to minimize the harmful consequences of alcohol consumption. Recently, there has been an increasing amount of interest in use of PBS among college students, especially as an intervention target. The purpose of the present comprehensive review of the PBS literature was to examine the measurement of PBS and summarize th...

The effect of PbS core size on the temperature-dependent photoluminescence (PL) of PbS/CdS quantum dots (QDs) in the temperature range of 100−300 K was thoroughly investigated and compared with shell-free PbS QDs. The core/shell QDs show significantly smaller PL intensity variation with temperature at a smaller PbS size, while a larger activation energy when the PbS domain size is relatively la...

AIMS To define how often transient pulmonary branch stenosis (PBS) develops after closure of a patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) in babies born at less than 32 weeks gestation; to describe the natural history of PBS and the relation between PBS and a cardiac murmur. METHODS Fifty three preterm infants born at a gestational age less than 32 weeks and who had PDA diagnosed on echocardiography were...

..............................................................................................................9 INTRODUCTION .................................................................................................... 10 REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE............................................................................ 12 Painful bladder syndrome / interstitial cystitis (PBS/IC) .........

Uniform PbS-Au nanostar-nanoparticle heterodimers consisting of one Au nanoparticle grown on one horn of a well-defined six-horn PbS nanostar were prepared using the PbS nanostars as growth substrates for the selective deposition of Au nanoparticles. The size of the Au nanoparticles on the horns of the PbS nanostars could be readily adjusted by changing the PbS concentration for the deposition ...

Protein bodies (PBs) are organelles found in seeds whose main function is the storage of proteins that are used during germination for sustaining growth. PBs can also be induced to form in leaves when foreign proteins are produced at high levels in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and when fused to one of three tags: Zera®, elastin-like polypeptides (ELP), or hydrophobin-I (HFBI). In this study, ...