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PURPOSE An observational prospective study was conducted to study the effects of hypotonic spa-water baths and narrowband ultraviolet B therapy given alone or in combination for treatment of moderate-severe psoriasis. MATERIALS AND METHODS TWO TREATMENTS WERE ANALYSED: 2 weeks of balneotherapy followed by ultraviolet-B (UVB) 311-nm phototherapy (BPT) or 2 weeks of daily bath treatments of Com...

Best practice tariff (BPT) was introduced as a financial incentive model to improve compliance with evidence-based care, such as operation for hip fracture within 36 hours of admission. We previously evaluated the impact of warfarin on patients with hip fracture, revealing significant delay to operation and subsequent loss of revenue. As a result of this, an "early trigger" intravenous vitamin ...

The relationship between Mycoplasma pneumoniae (MP) infection and asthma has rarely been explored through examination of airway reactivity. The aim of this study was to determine airway reactivity changes after MP infection in children. First, 106 children were divided into four groups according to the existence of MP infection and/or asthma. Then children with only MP belonged to the MP group;...

The two independent Ni(II) ions in the one-dimensional title complex, [Ni(2)(C(7)H(3)NO(4))(2)(C(12)H(8)N(4)S)(H(2)O)(2)](n) or [Ni(2)(pydc)(2)(bpt)(H(2)O)(2)](n) (H(2)pydc = pyridine-2,6-dicarboxylic acid and bpt = 2,5-di-4-pyrid-yl-1,3,4-thia-diazole), have different coordination environments. One Ni(II) ion is in a slightly-distorted octa-hedral coordination environment formed by three O ato...

BACKGROUND The current categorical split of mood disorders in bipolar (BP) disorders and depressive disorders has recently been questioned. The presence of a significant number of manic/hypomanic symptoms in patients with recurrent unipolar depression seems to challenge the traditional dichotomy of unipolar-BP disorder. Two highly unstable personality features, i.e., the cyclothymic temperament...

BACKGROUND Negative symptoms of schizophrenia are frequently associated with poor long term outcomes. Established interventions have little, if any, positive effects on negative symptoms. Arts Therapies such as Body Psychotherapy (BPT) have been suggested to reduce negative symptoms, but the existing evidence is limited. In a small exploratory trial a manualised form of group BPT led to signifi...

ED INLINE CODES Inline codes, such as markers for bold or italics, links information or image references, can be represented using either an encapsulation mechanism or a placeholder method. Those are derived respectively from TMX and OpenTag. The encapsulation mechanism consists of bracketing the inline codes between special elements. XLIFF keeps a syntax very close to TMX: (begin paired-...

This paper describes a comparison of two analytical techniques, one employing bathophenanthrolinedisulfonate (BPT), a most commonly-used reagent for Fe (II) determination, as chromogen and an electrothermal atomic absorption spectroscopy (ETAAS) for the quantification of non-transferrin bound iron (NTBI) in sera from thalassemic patients. Nitrilotriacetic acid (NTA) was employed as the ligand f...

Background: Leukotriene (LT) and thromboxane A2 (TXA2) receptor antagonists have been used in the treatment of asthma. Objectives: We examined the effects of an LT receptor antagonist, TXA2 receptor antagonist, and TXA2 synthetase inhibitor on bronchoprovocation test (BPT) in patients with mild-to-moderate atopic asthma. Methods: BPT was performed four times in each of six asthmatics. Developme...