PURPOSE It is imperative that public health nurses define their services and provide evidence supporting the effectiveness of interventions. The purpose of this paper is to examine the ex-tent to which two standardized nursing terminologies--Home Health Care Classification (HHCC) and Nursing Interventions Classification (NIC)--represent public health nursing practice according to core public he...

AIM To investigate the correlation of iodine concentration (IC) generated by spectral computed tomography (CT) with micro-vessel density (MVD) and vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) expression in patients with advanced gastric carcinoma (GC). METHODS Thirty-four advanced GC patients underwent abdominal enhanced CT in the gemstone spectral imaging mode. The IC of the primary lesion in t...

OF DOCTORAL DISSERTATION HELSINKI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNLOGY P.O. BOX 1000, FI-02015 TKK http://www.tkk.fi Author Xiaolei Wang Name of the dissertation Hybrid Nature-Inspired Computation Methods for Optimization Manuscript submitted 23/2/2009 Manuscript revised 28/4/2009 Date of the defence 29/5/2009 Monograph Article dissertation (summary + original articles) Faculty Faculty of Electronics, Commu...

Michael D. Kudlick MDK (SRI-ARC) NIC 14798 8-MAR-73 Network Mail Meeting Summary Introduction The purpose of this RFC is to briefly summarize, from the NIC’s viewpoint, the principal conclusions reached at the Network Mail Meeting held Friday, February 23 1973, at SRI-ARC. Please refer to RFC #475 (NIC 14919) for Abhay Bhushan’s comprehensive summary of the issues discussed at the meeting. Ther...

We prove that triangulated IC-planar and NIC-planar graphs can be recognized in cubic time. A graph is 1-planar if it can be drawn in the plane with at most one crossing per edge. A drawing is IC-planar if, in addition, each vertex is incident to at most one crossing edge and NIC-planar if two pairs of crossing edges share at most one vertex. In a triangulated drawing each face is a triangle. I...

Gastrointestinal pathology, characterized by lymphoid nodular hyperplasia and entero-colitis, has been demonstrated in a cohort of children with autistic spectrum disorder (ASD). Systemic and intestinal mucosal immune dysregulation was assessed in ASD children with gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms (n = 18), and typically developing controls (n = 27), including non-inflamed controls (NIC) and infl...

Cell survival is one of several processes regulated by the Notch pathway in mammalian cells. Here we report functional outcomes of non-nuclear Notch signaling to activate autophagy, a conserved cellular response to nutrient stress, regulating survival in murine natural T-regulatory cells (Tregs), an immune subset controlling tolerance and inflammation. Induction of autophagy required ligand-dep...

Key to this dis cov ery was the rec og ni tion of a group of Palaeozoic, sub ma rine vol ca nic rocks, named the Mount Attree volcanics, which had pre vi ously been mapped as part of the Lower Ju ras sic Telkwa For ma tion (Woodsworth et al., 1985). The Lower Telkwa vol ca nic rocks are not con sid ered pro spec tive for VHMS de pos its be cause they formed in a subaerial, compressional en vi r...

Background: Use of alcohol and tobacco, the two most concurrently abused drugs, typically first occurs during adolescence. Yet, there have been no systematic analyses of ethanol (EtOH) and nicotine (Nic) interactions during adolescence. Recent animal studies report that kappa-opioid (KOR) receptor activation mediates age differences in drug reinforcement. Our hypothesis is that concurrent self-...

backgrand: cotinine (cot) is a major degradation product of nicotine (nic). the participation of leptin in female reproduction is well-established, but any role in male reproductive function is at the best tenuous. objective: the aim of this study was to evaluate the in-vitro effects of nicotine, cotinine and leptin on sperm parameters in normal semen of non-smokers fertile men. materials and m...