depression disorders are associated with serious dysfunction and depressive symptoms. cognitive slowing is a clear symptom observed in all depressed people. pvsat is a measure of cognitive function that specifically assesses visual information processing speed and flexibility, as well as calculation ability. the aim of the present study was to determine whether the paced visual serial addition ...

researchers of csiro land and water in griffith in australia have found a way to repeatedly reuse drainage water to grow crops. in the process the system will concentrate the salt in the water to a manageable level which can then be used or stored in an environmentally friendly manner. the process, known as sequential biological concentration, is based on a novel system for land, based treatmen...

Background: Antibiotic resistance in Cystic Fibrosis (CF) patients has been a serious issue in their survival. The objective of this study was to investigate the antibiogram trend in serial admissions among CF patients. Materials and Methods: In this retrospective descriptive-analytical study, from 2014 to 2019, 95 known cases of CF pati...

Serial passage of axenically-cultured Leishmania chagasi promastigotes results in a progressive diminution in resistance to complement mediated lysis (CML), whereas high CML resistance is seen in infectious metacyclic promastigotes from the sandfly vector as well as metacyclic-like promastigotes within low passage cultures at stationary growth phase. As previously reported [94], in a screen see...

Insulin resistance is an increasingly prevalent condition in humans that frequently clusters with disorders characterized by left ventricular (LV) pressure overload, such as systemic hypertension. To investigate the impact of insulin resistance on LV remodeling and functional response to pressure overload, C57BL6 male mice were fed a high-fat (HFD) or a standard diet (SD) for 9 days and then un...

As in the Landauer–Büttiker approach to transport, a transmitter is, at fixed energy, characterized by its reflection and transmission coefficients. Generalizing a prior approach, we establish a variational principle to determine, without magnetic field, the distribution of the current over the different channels if the transmitter is coupled incoherently to its surroundings. For transmitters c...

Serial assessment of the status of the pulmonary vascular bed requires bed requires cardiac catheterization. We have demonstrated the right ventricular systolic time intervals (RVSTI) may be measured from the pulmonary valve echo. The right ventricular ejection time (RVET) and right pre-ejection period (RPEP) were measured in 45 normal patients. The RVET and RPEP decreased with increasing heart...

Electrophysical study is given for signal transmission characteristics with the axon in neurons. Electrical analysis was done under voltage equilibrium and current continuity conditions. Inductance L and capacity C per unit length are obtained for lossless axon. Attenuation, phase rotation, and phase (signal) velocity are given for axon with loss. It is then presented that higher velocity and w...

Mechanisms of resistance to azoles in Candida albicans, the main etiologic agent of oropharyngeal candidiasis (OPC), include alterations in the target enzyme (lanosterol demethylase) and increased efflux of drug. Previous studies on mechanisms of resistance have been limited by the fact that only a single isolate from each OPC episode was available for study. Multiple isolates from each OPC epi...

Whole-genome sequences for Stenotrophomonas maltophilia serial isolates from a bacteremic patient before and after development of levofloxacin resistance were assembled de novo and differed by one single-nucleotide variant in smeT, a repressor for multidrug efflux operon smeDEF. Along with sequenced isolates from five contemporaneous cases, they displayed considerable diversity compared against...