OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS To evaluate the clinical outcome of patients with acute vocal fold paralysis treated with bovine collagen via percutaneous injection laryngoplasty under simple topical anesthesia. STUDY DESIGN Retrospective case series. METHODS The charts of 38 consecutive patients with acute unilateral vocal fold paralysis who underwent percutaneous injection laryngoplasty under simpl...

PURPOSE This study seeks to establish causal models of diet which maintain the appetite of head and neck cancer patients receiving radiation therapy. SAMPLE AND METHODS We collected data from 208 patients at two radiation doses, 30/50 Gy, using a questionnaire on appetite and analyzed the items using structural equation modeling. RESULTS In the causal model for 30 Gy, we established a path ...

Bu çalışmanın amacı, Türkçeyi yabancı dil olarak öğrenmiş öğrencilerin Türk kültürüne yönelik tutumlarını belirlemede kullanılabilecek veri toplama araçları geliştirmektir. Araştırmanın açımlayıcı faktör analizi örnekleminde 311, doğrulayıcı 184 üniversite öğrencisi bulunmaktadır. Ölçeğin yapı geçerliğini belirlemek amacıyla ve yapılmıştır. Ölçek bir tutumun boyutları olan bilişsel, duygusal da...

GABP is an ets transcription factor that regulates genes that are required for myeloid differentiation. The tetrameric GABP complex includes GABPα, which binds DNA via its ets domain, and GABPβ, which contains the transcription activation domain. To examine the role of GABP in myeloid differentiation, we generated mice in which Gabpa can be conditionally deleted in hematopoietic tissues. Gabpa ...

OBJECTIVES The present study aims to test the factor structure of two sleep questionnaires and their internal consistency in a sample of adolescents and their respective parents and to evaluate the validity and robustness of a three-dimensional model about sleep, addressing nine subcategories related to sleep habits, personal and environmental factors. METHODS Participants were 654 adolescent...

The aim of this study was to assess the factorial structure of the Brazilian version of CSAI-2, using several structures suggested in previous studies. Two samples consisted of Brazilian soccer players, 266 from regional level (age 22.87 +/- 4.08 years; athletic experience 11.32 +/- 4.15 years) and 263 from national level (age 23.16 +/- 4.37 years; athletic experience 11.11 +/- 4.78 years) were...

[Purpose] This study aimed to examine the validity and internal consistency of the Japanese version of a performance evaluation tool for activities of daily living (ADL) based on the modified Barthel Index (PET-MBI) among elderly people at home. [Subjects] The subjects were elderly people living at home in Japan. [Methods] A cross-sectional study was performed at five home care facilities for e...

The set of frequent closed itemsets determines exactly the complete set of all frequent itemsets and is usually much smaller than the latter. In this paper, an algorithm based on index array for mining frequent closed itemsets, Index-FCI is proposed. The vertical BitTable is adopted to compress the dataset for counting fast the support. To make use of the horizontal BitTable, the index array co...

Background: The Internet has dramatically influenced the introduction of virtual education. Virtual education is a term that involves online education and e-learning. This study was conducted to evaluate a virtual education system based on the DeLone and McLean model. Methods: This descriptive analytical study was conducted using the census method on all the students of the Nursing and Midwifer...