BACKGROUND Mis-reporting of data by study participants in a questionnaire-based study is an important source of bias in studies. OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence and factors influencing mis-reporting of gravidity among rural women in Malawi. MATERIALS AND METHODS Data from cross sectional study conducted in 2004 were analysed using logistic regression analysis and the logit modeling. ...

Troxacitabine (Troxatyl; BCH-4556; (-)-2'-deoxy-3'-oxacytidine), a deoxycytidine analogue with an unusual dioxolane structure and nonnatural L-configuration, has potent antitumor activity in animal models and is in clinical trials against human malignancies. The current work was undertaken to identify potential biochemical mechanisms of resistance to troxacitabine and to determine whether there...

Aedes aegypti is the vector of a wide range of diseases (e.g. yellow fever, dengue, Chikungunya and Zika) which impact on over half the world's population. Entomopathogenic fungi such as Metarhizium anisopliae and Beauveria bassiana have been found to be highly efficacious in killing mosquito larvae but only now are the underlying mechanisms for pathogenesis being elucidated. Recently it was sh...

A wide range of definitions is used to distinguish subjects in whom blood pressure (BP) falls at night (dippers) from their counterparts (nondippers). In an attempt to standardize the definition of nondipping, we determined the nocturnal BP fall and night-day BP ratio by 24-hour ambulatory monitoring in 4765 normotensive and 2555 hypertensive subjects from 10 to 99 years old. In all subjects co...

S290 (2000). 41 Goronzy JJ, Fujii H, Weyand CM. Telomeres, immune aging and autoimmunity. Exp. Gerontol. 41(3), 246–251 (2006). n„ Presents important findings related to aging and how age influences autoimmunity. 42 Schonland SO, Lopez C, Widmann T et al. Premature telomeric loss in rheumatoid arthritis is genetically determined and involves both myeloid and lymphoid cell lineages. Proc. Natl A...

Purpose: We performed a phase I clinical trial of adenovirus/prostate-specific antigen (PSA) vaccine in men with measurable metastatic hormone-refractory disease. Experimental Design: Men with measurable metastatic disease received one vaccine injection. Toxicity, immune responses, changes in PSA doubling times, and patient survival were assessed. Thirty-two patients with hormone-refractory met...

General references show that the type of professional identity known as collective self-esteem could be an important factor in professionals’ job satisfaction and burnout. However, little attention has been paid to identifying the interactions of these three variables in music therapy. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between music therapists’ job satisfaction, coll...

1 This research investigates the route choice behavior of cyclists in the City of Toronto using data 2 collected from a smartphone application deployed to a large number of cyclists in the City. A 3 total 4556 cyclists registered for this study and logged over 20,000 commuting trips over a study 4 period of 9 months. In addition to the time-stamped second-by-second GPS readings of each 5 trip, ...