We investigated (1) how household wealth affected the relationship between conditional cash transfers (CCT) and unconditional cash transfers (UCT) and school attendance, (2) whether CCT and UCT affected educational outcomes (repeating a year of school), (3) if baseline school attendance and transfer conditions affected how much of the transfers participants spent on education and (4) if CCT or ...

Calcium homeostasis is critical for cardiac myocyte function and must be tightly regulated. The guiding hypothesis of this study is that a carboxyl-terminal cleavage product of the cardiac L-type calcium channel (Ca(V)1.2) autoregulates expression. First, we confirmed that the Ca(V)1.2 C terminus (CCt) is cleaved in murine cardiac myocytes from mature and developing ventricle. Overexpression of...

Behavioral measures of risky decision making are frequently used by researchers and clinicians; however, most of these measures are strongly associated with personality characteristics and state mood. The present study sought to examine personality, mood, and executive function predictors of performance on a newer measure of decision making, the Columbia Card Task (CCT). Participants were 489 u...

One hundred twenty two patients ahd carotid compression tonography (CCT) followed by bilateral carotid arteriogaraphy. Inthe group (82 patients) which was felt to have significant occlusive disease of internal carotid at the level of carotid bifurcation (smaller than 50 percent stenosis), the CCT showed a 92 per cent correlation with arteriography. Of the group (48 patients) that underwent enda...

Color reproductions in most LCD are quite different from those of standard CRT (cathode ray tube) monitor display because of the nonlinear characteristic in subtractive color reproduction. Moreover, gray scale CCT (correlated color temperature) reproductions in a typical mobile phone LCD depend on the input RGB levels. A simple LUT (Look-up table) method for constant gray scale CCT and gamma ch...

AIM To investigate the accuracy of intraocular pressure (IOP) as measured by a Reichert Ocular Response Analyzer (ORA), as well as the relationship between central corneal thickness (CCT) and IOP as measured by ORA, Goldmann applanation tonometry (GAT), and dynamic contour tonometry (DCT). METHODS A total of 158 healthy individuals (296 eyes) were chosen randomly for measurement of IOP. After...

everal researchers have reported that CT perfusion studies have been helpful in diagnosing and managing acute ischemic stroke in large numbers of patients. Adding CT perfusion to the imaging protocol improves the accuracy of a stroke diagnosis and is successful in most cases. Incorporating perfusion may even potentially reduce inpatient costs through improvements in management. Research has sho...

PURPOSE To study 24-hour changes of corneal biomechanical properties and their influences on measurement of intraocular pressure (IOP). METHODS Fifteen healthy young volunteers (age range, 20-25 years) were housed for 1 day in a sleep laboratory. Sitting and supine central corneal thickness (CCT) were measured every 2 hours with an ultrasonic pachymeter. Sitting IOP and corneal hysteresis, an...

BACKGROUND Intraocular pressure (IOP) measurements are affected by the central cornea thickness (CCT). The conventional method for CCT measurement is ultrasonic pachymetry. However, noncontact procedures lower the risk of infection and corneal damage. In this study, we compared the CCT measured by Orbscan II, SP3000P, and ultrasonic pachymetry in patients with glaucoma or glaucoma suspect. ME...

Background/aim: To compare intraocular pressure (IOP) measurements taken by the Goldmann applanation tonometer, the Tono-Pen and the ocular blood flow pneumotonometer in eyes with varying central corneal thickness (CCT) due to penetrating keratoplasty (PK), keratoconus (KC), and Fuchs’ endothelial dystrophy (FED). Methods: IOP was measured with the Goldmann applanation tonometer, Tono-Pen XL, a...