BACKGROUND Progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) is a neurodegenerative disorder that is sometimes confused with Parkinson's disease, multiple system atrophy, and other disorders. The typical clinical features are categorized as Richardson's syndrome (RS), but other clinical subtypes include PSP-parkinsonism (PSP-P) and PSP-pure akinesia with gait freezing (PSP-PAGF). In this study, we determine...

OBJECTIVES Progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) is regarded either within spectrum of atypical parkinsonian syndromes or frontotemporal lobar degeneration. We compared the verbal, visuospatial and procedural learning profiles in patients with PSP and Parkinson's disease (PD). Furthermore, the relationship between executive factors (initiation and inhibition) and learning outcomes was analyzed. ...

The Personal Software Process is a process improvement methodology aiming at individual software engineers. It claims to improve software quality (in particular defect content), effort estimation capability, and process adaptation and improvement capabilities. We have tested some of these claims in an experiment comparing the performance of participants who had just previously received a PSP co...

Diagnosing clinical progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) is challenging. We hypothesize that there are more cases of pathological PSP than have been clinically identified, but its diagnosis is challenging because the initial lesions and progression of PSP have not yet been clarified. The purpose of our study was to clarify the incidence of PSP in consecutive autopsy cases and identify pathologi...

Seminal plasma (SP) is a complex fluid which exerts biological actions in the female reproductive tract. In pigs, SP elicits endometrial inflammation and consequent immune changes after mating. This study tested whether heparin-binding spermadhesins (HBPs) and the heterodimer of porcine sperm adhesions I and II (PSP-I/PSP-II) in SP recruit different lymphocyte subsets (CD2(+), CD4(+) and CD8(+)...

We propose a novel fast-responding and paintable pressure-sensitive paint (PSP) based on polymer particles, i.e. polymer-particle (pp-)PSP. As a fast-responding PSP, polymer-ceramic (PC-)PSP is widely studied. Since PC-PSP generally consists of titanium (IV) oxide (TiO₂) particles, a large reduction in the luminescent intensity will occur due to the photocatalytic action of TiO₂. We propose the...

this study was conducted to investigate the effect of supplementation different levels of pomegranate seed pulp (psp) on performance and blood parameters in laying hens. a total of 96 layers hens (hy-line w-36) at 24 week of age were randomly assigned into 4 treatments including 0 (control), 5, 10 and 15% of psp, with 4 replicates containing 6 layers in each. results showed no significant effec...

BACKGROUND Pancreatic stone protein (PSP) has been identified as a promising sepsis marker in adults, children and neonates. However, data on population-based reference values are lacking. This study aimed to establish age-specific reference values for PSP. METHODS PSP was determined using a specific ELISA. PSP serum concentrations were determined in 372 healthy subjects including 217 neonate...

OBJECTIVE To study the correlation between climatic changes and the development of primary spontaneous pneumothorax (PSP). SUBJECTS AND METHODS We retrospectively studied the relationship between 337 patients with conservatively treated PSP and meteorological conditions during a 3-year period in the urban area of Xi'an, China. The comparison was made depending on solar terms and on different ...

Known inducers of the phage shock protein (Psp) system suggest that it is an extracytoplasmic stress response, as are the well-studied RpoE and Cpx systems. However, a random approach to identify conditions and proteins that induce the Psp system has not been attempted. It is also unknown whether the proteins or mutations that induce Psp are specific or if they also activate the RpoE and Cpx sy...