AIMS Arterial vasa vasorum (VV) are known to be involved in the atherosclerotic process. The aim of the present study was to explore whether ultrasound imaging with contrast agent is able to visualize adventitial VV in human carotid atherosclerosis. METHODS AND RESULTS We studied with standard ultrasound 25 patients with carotid stenosis >50% (ATS group) and 15 patients without carotid artery...

OBJECTIVES To investigate the severity of subcortical atrophy in frontotemporal dementia (FTD) without extrapyramidal symptoms (EPS) and dementia with EPS. In addition, we aim to verify if there is correlation between demographic and clinical characteristics and subcortical atrophy in the groups. Methodology : The sample was composed of 21 patients with dementia and EPS as well as 19 patients w...

Abstract The Big Five Inventory-2 (BFI-2) assesses personality through the big five factor model (FFM). This study aimed to verify whether internal structure of BFI-2 is corroborated in a Brazilian sample. Participants were 908 cisgender adults, aged between 17 and 93 years, 532 whom women. Confirmatory analysis Exploratory structural equation modeling performed with BFI-2. 15 facets resulted a...

A 23 factorial experimental design has been used to quantitatively study individual and interaction effects of the nature of binder (N), concentration of binder (C) and the applied pressure (P) on two mechanical properties, namely, tensile strength (TS) and brittle fracture index (BFI), of paracetamol tablets. The factorial design was also used to study the quantitative effects of coprocessing ...

the term hydrological drought is applied to represent low water levels in streams, reservoirs and lakes as well as a low groundwater level. base flow index (bfi) as one of low flow indices gives the ratio of base flow to total flow and investigates basin’s ability to store and release of water in drought periods. the objectives of this study were to determine bfi and to validate this index in d...

Methods A cross-sectional study was conducted to examine possible associations between diet and fatigue. Dietary intake using a 4-day food diary was assessed in 40 cancer survivors. Cancer survivors had completed all cancer treatments at least 12 weeks prior and had their fatigue assessed with the Brief Fatigue Inventory (BFI). Participants were placed into one of three fatigue levels, “no fati...

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES Feeding in infancy is the most significant determinant of the intestinal microbiota in early life. The aim of this study was to determine the gut microbiota of Korean infants and compare the microbiota obtained between breast-fed and formula-fed Korean infants. SUBJECTS/METHODS We analyzed the microbial communities in fecal samples collected from twenty 4-week old Korean...

BACKGROUND A number of anaemic cancer patients are not responsive to treatment with recombinant human erythropoietin (rHuEPO). The aim of the present study is to investigate whether serum levels of tumour necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha), interleukin (IL)-1beta, IL-6 and additional laboratory parameters, together with clinical variables, can predict the clinical outcome of treatment with rHuEP...

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the sonographic features of thyroid nodules suspicious for malignancy with standard examination in B-mode and Color Doppler associated with modern techniques such as ultrasound RTE (Real Time Elastosonography) and BFI (B-flow imaging) in correlation with the results of the sonographically guided fine-needle aspiration to establish their role in predicti...