STUDY OBJECTIVES To estimate the cost per woman participating in a mammographic screening programme, and to describe methods for measuring costs. DESIGN Expenditure, resource usage, and throughput were monitored over a 12 month period. Unit costs for each phase of the screening process were estimated and linked with the probabilities of each screening outcome to obtain the cost per woman scre...

We present the first part of the first large and homogeneous CCD color-magnitude diagram (CMD) data base, comprising 52 nearby Galactic globular clusters (GGC) imaged in the V and I bands using only two telescopes (one for each hemisphere). The observed clusters represent 75% of the known Galactic globulars with (m − M)V ≤ 16.15 mag, cover most of the globular cluster metallicity range (−2.2 ≤ ...

Introduction The evidence on the beneficial role of low?risk characteristics is well established. However, data trends in lifestyle patterns Central Europe are limited. Objectives aim this report was to determine changes among adults Poland between 2003 and 2014. Patients methods study sample comprised 12 857 aged 20 74 years (5986 men 6871 women) participating 2 nationwide representative surve...

Self-harm is a major risk factor for suicide or self-harm repetition. As the global population ages, it important that older adults are not considered homogeneous group. In this study, we aimed to identify characteristics of elderly and compare these between age groups who were admitted emergency departments in South Korea. A retrospective study was conducted using Emergency Department-based In...

The leading-order dispersion and exchange-dispersion terms in symmetry-adapted perturbation theory (SAPT), Edisp(20) Eexch-disp(20), suffer from slow convergence to the complete basis set limit. To alleviate this problem, explicitly correlated variants of these corrections, Edisp(20)-F12 Eexch-disp(20)-F12, have been proposed recently. However, original formalism (M., Kodrycka , J. Chem. Theory...

Regulators dedicate much attention to a financial institution’s option to default, i.e. the option that distressed financial institutions have to transfer losses to their creditors. It is generally recognized that the existence of this option provides intermediaries with a powerful incentive to keep firm capital close to the minimal requirement. We argue, however, that undercapitalization harms...

Synapsin I (protein I) is a major neuron-specific endogenous substrate for cAMP-dependent and Ca/calmodulin-dependent protein kinases that is widely distributed in synapses of the central and peripheral nervous system (De Camilli, P., R. Cameron, and P. Greengard, 1983, J. Cell Biol. 96:1337-1354). We have now carried out a detailed analysis of the ultrastructural localization of synapsin I in ...

Coastal waters adjacent to populated southeast Florida possess different habitats (reefs, oceanic inlets, sewage outfalls) that may affect the composition of their inherent microbiomes. To determine variation according to site, season, and depth, over the course of 1 year, we characterized the bacterioplankton communities within 38 nearshore seawater samples derived from the Florida Area Coasta...

Stars evolving off the asymptotic giant branch and passing through spectral types F and A are excellent candidates for a new extragalactic standard candle. These post-AGB (PAGB) stars are the visually brightest members of Population II systems. They should have a narrow luminosity function, bounded from above by the shorter transition times of more massive and more luminous remnants, and from b...

Synapsin I (formerly referred to as protein I) is the collective name for two almost identical phosphoproteins, synapsin Ia and synapsin Ib (protein Ia and protein Ib), present in the nervous system. Synapsin I has previously been shown by immunoperoxidase studies (De Camilli, P., T. Ueda, F. E. Bloom, E. Battenberg, and P. Greengard, 1979, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 76:5977-5981; Bloom, F. E....