While aggressive tobacco control and help to stop smoking are essential weapons in the fight against lung cancer, screening with low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) in high-risk populations and chemoprevention may also contribute to reducing lung cancer deaths. Persons undergoing LDCT screening are an ideal population to be tested for agents potentially able to prevent the development of lung c...

Current national standards and/or guidelines for correctional mental health care programs emphasize the importance of various levels of mental health screening and evaluation that should be performed by qualified personnel on all inmates as part of the admission process to a prison. The authors describe the results of a study that included data from all 50 state departments of corrections regar...

This paper addresses the biocompatibility of fluids and surfactants in the context of microfluidics and more specifically in a drops-in-drops system for mammalian cell based drug screening. In the drops-in-drops approach, three immiscible fluids are used to manipulate the flow of aqueous microliter-sized drops; it enables merging of drops containing cells with drops containing drugs within a Te...

conclusions the present study suggests that the enzyme obtained from strain b. subtilis can be used as feed supplement in animal diet also for reduction of phosphorus pollution problem in areas of livestock production. materials and methods the present study was conducted in biotechnology laboratory, motilal nehru national institute of technology, allahabad, uttar pradesh, india. to isolate phy...

With the goal of creating faster and more efficient methods of generating unique Ac/Ds insertional mutants in a population of Fragaria vesca, various methods of seed germination, kanamycin screening, and the effects of varying nitrogen fertilization on diploid strawberry have been examined. Seed germination was improved to 42% in B5 liquid medium compared to _ on MS solid medium. Kanamycin scre...

In this work, a theoretical differential analysis of the positron impact ionization hydrogen embedded in weakly coupled plasmas at an energy 80 eV is developed. While total and singly cross sections are analyzed within classical trajectory Monte Carlo method, Born-3DW model for screened environments, recently introduced by authors, used to provide fully view process. The present results suggest...

BACKGROUND Although nutritional screening with a tool such as the Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool (MUST) is recommended for outpatients, staff are under pressure to undertake a variety of other tasks. Little attention has been paid to the validity of patient self-screening with MUST. OBJECTIVE This study in 205 outpatients with a mean (±SD) age of 55 ± 17 y (56% male) assessed the pract...

OBJECTIVES Swab-based nasal screening is commonly used to identify asymptomatic carriage of Staphylococcus aureus in patients. Bacterial detection depends on the uptake and release capacities of the swabs and on the swabbing technique itself. This study investigates the performance of different swab-types in nasal MRSA-screening by utilizing a unique artificial nose model to provide realistic a...