Thirty-three premature and full-term infants (PCA, 31.5 to 50 weeks) who were free from neurologic and cardiopulmonary disease at the time of testing underwent a standardized TAS test during polygraphically controlled REM sleep. The R-R interval and the TTOT were measured before and during TAS. The R-R interval and TTOT changes during TAS were compared to the preceding 60-second mean R-R interv...

CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Business Unit, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 2 Institute for Marine and Antarctic Science, University of Tasmania, Taroona, TAS, Australia, CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Business Unit, Hobart, TAS, Australia, 4 Tasmanian School of Business and Economics, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia, 5 School of Economics and Finance, Queensland University of Technology (...

OBJECTIVE Alexithymia, a common personality style of patients seeking psychotherapeutic help, is associated with illness severity and negative treatment outcome in various mental disorders. Still, it remains unclear how alexithymia influences psychopathology and the therapeutic processes. In previous studies, a strong association of alexithymia with self-directedness (SD), a dimension of Clonin...

The objective of this study was to compare the level of total antioxidant status (TAS) in type 2 diabetic and normal Palestinian subjects as well as the major factors influencing TAS levels. A sample of convenience composed of 212 type 2 diabetic and 208 normal subjects above the age of 40 were recruited. Only 9.8% of the subjects had normal body mass index (BMI) levels (<25), 29% were overweig...

OBJECTIVE Posttraumatic cerebral infarction (CI) is a well-known complication of traumatic brain injury (TBI). However, the causation and apportionment of trauma in patients with CI after TBI is not easy. There is a scoring method, so-called trauma apportionment score (TAS) for CI, consisted with the age, the interval, and the severity of the TBI. We evaluated the reliability of this score. M...

The molecular distinctions between mortality stages 1 (M1; senescence) and 2 (M2; crisis) of human replicative aging are ill defined. We demonstrate a qualitative difference between telomeric end associations at M1 and the end fusions that produce dicentric chromosomes and breakage-fusion cycles. Knockdown of ligase IV sufficient to completely inhibit radiation-induced dicentric chromosome form...

In this paper, we derive expressions for exact, approximate, and asymptotic symbol error rate (SER) of transmit antenna selection with maximal ratio combining (TAS/MRC) multiple input multiple output (MIMO) systems for several modulation schemes. We have assumed independent and identically distributed h ¡ m fading channels. We use a moment generating function (MGF) based approach to derive the ...

OBJECTIVES To quantify the changes seen in the endorectal magnetic resonance imaging (erMRI)-defined prostate volume, predominant tumor volume, and secondary tumor volume during neoadjuvant total androgen suppression (TAS). METHODS Between July 1997 and April 2001, 152 consecutive patients with clinical Stage T1b-T3cNXM0 prostate cancer were treated with 6 months of TAS and external beam radi...

1 Oceans and Atmosphere (CSIRO), Hobart, TAS, Australia, 2 Tasmanian School of Business and Economics, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia, 3 Centre for Marine Socioecology, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia, 4 Faculty of Agriculture, University of Pattimura, Ambon, Indonesia, 5 Indonesia Project, Arndt-Corden Department of Economics, Crawford School of Public Policy, Au...

We describe an approach to substituting a fluorescence microarray with a surface made of an arrangement of electrolyte-gated field effect transistors. This was achieved using a dedicated blocking of non-specific interactions and comparing threshold voltage shifts of transistors exhibiting probe molecules of different base sequence. We apply the approach to detection of the 35delG mutation, whic...