BACKGROUND Although many studies indicate that maternal smoking during pregnancy (SDP) is correlated with later offspring antisocial behavior (ASB), recent quasi-experimental studies suggest that background familial factors confound the association. The present study sought to test alternative etiological hypotheses using multiple indices of adolescent ASB, comparing differentially exposed sibl...

Here we present the draft genome of Arthrobacter sp. strain UCD-GKA. The assembly contains 4,930,274 bp in 33 contigs. This strain was isolated from the handle of a weight bar in the UC Davis Activities and Recreation Center.

BACKGROUND Kocuria, established by Stackebrandt et al., previously was classified into Micrococcus. Only two species, K. rosea and K. kristinae are reported to be associated as pathogenic and found with catheter-related bacteremia and acute cholecystitis. CASE PRESENTATION We herein report the first case of brain abscess caused by Kocuria varians, a gram-positive microorganism, in a 52-year-o...

Asymptomatic bacteriuria (ASB), a type of urinary tract infection (UTI), is one of common infections in pregnancy requiring antibiotic treatment. ASB is defined as growth of more than 100 000 colony forming units per millilitre (cfu/ ml) in culture of midstream urine obtained from an individual without signs and symptoms of asymptomatic bacteriuria [1,2]. ASB prevalence generally ranges from 2%...

OBJECTIVE To deal with the causal relationship between corporal punishment and antisocial behavior (ASB) by considering the level of ASB of the child at the start of the study. METHODS Data from interviews with a national sample of 807 mothers of children aged 6 to 9 years in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth-Child Supplement. Analysis of variance was used to test the hypothesis that ...

background: asymptomatic bacteriuria (asb) is common among women with diabetes. the aim of this study was determine the prevalence of and risk factors for asb in women with diabetes type 2 in shahre-kord city of iran. methods: in a six months period (april- september 2005), a total of 100 women with diabetes (type 2) and 100 healthy women without diabetes as control group were investigated for ...

The Maroteaux-Lamy syndrome (mucopolysaccharidosis type VI; MPS VI) is a lysosomal storage disease caused by deficiency of the enzyme arylsulphatase B (ASB). A human ASB cDNA has been subcloned into the retroviral vector pXT1 containing the bacterial neomycin-resistance gene and an internal thymidine kinase promoter for transcription of the inserted gene. Replication defective retrovirus was ge...

The Department of Computer Science at the University of Applied Sciences in Trier has been using and further developing a system for automatic software evaluation (ASB) for several years. The ASB system is a web application which allows students to submit solutions to programming exercises within a set time frame. The solutions can be automatically evaluated with the help of various measures. T...

The arcuate nucleus of the hypothalamus is a primary site for sensing blood borne nutrients and hormonal messengers that reflect caloric status. To identify novel energy homeostatic genes, we examined RNA extracts from the microdissected arcuate nucleus of fed and 48-h fasted rats using oligonucleotide microarrays. The relative abundance of 118 mRNA transcripts was increased and 203 mRNA transc...