Triatoma virus (TrV) belongs to a new family of RNA viruses known as Dicistroviridae. Nucleotide sequence comparisons between different dicistroviruses allowed two putative internal ribosomal entry sites (IRESs) in the TrV RNA to be defined: the 5'UTR IRES of 548 nt and the intergenic region (IGR) IRES of 172 nt. Using monocistronic and bicistronic RNAs, it was shown that the TrV genome contain...

OBJECTIVE In Mexico, cervical uterine cancer (CUC) is one of the leading causes of death among women, however a low degree of participation in the early detection programs has been found. This study is aimed at describing the social determinants of knowledge related to cervical uterine cancer and proper testing being conducted by establishing the social differences with regard thereto among a p...

Recent advances in statistical methods enable the study of correlation among outcomes through joint modeling, thereby addressing spillover effects. By joint modeling, we refer to simultaneously analyzing two or more different response variables emanating from the same individual. Using the 2011 Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey, we jointly address spillover effects between contraceptive ...

People often talk to others about their personal past. These discussions are inherently selective. Selective retrieval of memories in the course of a conversation may induce forgetting of unmentioned but related memories for both speakers and listeners (Cuc, Koppel, & Hirst, 2007). Cuc et al. (2007) defined the forgetting on the part of the speaker as within-individual retrieval-induced forgett...

The CUP-SHAPED COTYLEDON (CUC) genes (CUC1, CUC2 and CUC3) regulate organ boundary formation in Arabidopsis. However, the functions of their homologous rice (Oryza sativa) are still unknown. Here, we have identified an orthologous gene CUC1 rice, named OsNAM. Subcellular localization yeast two-hybrid assay results suggested that OsNAM encodes a conserved nuclear NAC (NAM/ATAF1/CUC2) protein wit...

BACKGROUND Religion and Ethnicity are the two most important factors that shape the behavioral pattern especially health seeking behaviors of the people of Nigeria. This study seeks to examine the mediatory effects of the linkage between ethnicity and religion with selected socio-demographic variables on the current use of contraception (CUC) among women of reproductive age in Nigeria. METHOD...