display, view an d print a single c opy for persona l use Oral contraceptives are used by millions of women worldwide, and are the most common form of birth control chosen by Canadi n women.1 In Canada, 18% of women aged 15-49 use the combined oral contraceptive (COC), and of Canadian women who use contraception, 32% choose COCs as their primary form of birth control.2,3 Since the introduction ...

HYPOTHESIS The outcomes of and parental satisfaction with same-day discharge in children undergoing laparoscopic appendectomy warrant making it the usual and customary pathway. DESIGN Prospective cohort study. SETTING Tertiary care children's hospital. PATIENTS Between July 1, 2010, and March 30, 2011, a total of 207 children were considered for same-day discharge after acute or interval ...

background melissa officinalis, an herbal drug, is well known and frequently applied in traditional and modern medicine. yet, there is inadequate information regarding its effects on electrical properties of the heart. the present study attempted to elucidate the effects of melissa officinalis aqueous extract on electrocardiogram (ecg) in rat. objectives ecg is an easy, fast and valuable tool t...

In this paper, we propose an interval quadratic programming method for the day-ahead scheduling of power generation and battery charge cycles, where the prediction uncertainty of power consumption and photovoltaic power generation is described as a parameter vector lying in an interval box. The interval quadratic programming is formulated as the problem of finding the tightest box, i.e., interv...

This study concerns an evaluation of the possible effects of repetitive divingand long-term effects of compression/decompression on distribution of, or loss of minerals, electrolytes, and protein metabolites in men subjected to standard Navy diving procedures. Urinary minerals, electrolytes, nitrogen metabolites and steroids, as well as serum minerals and electrolytes, were measured in Navy div...

To accurately assess a drug’s effect on QTc interval it is essential to identify the different sources of bias that may affect the extent of QTc prolongation of a drug. With this in mind, Kervezee et al. recently published an article describing the effect of dosing time on levofloxacin-induced QTc prolongation. The estimated concentration–QT relationship in the morning is concordant with the da...

increased feeding frequency improve bioenergetics efficiency in lactating cows; however, there is little information about its effect on fattening animals.twelve holstein bull calves were allotted to two groups to determine the effect of feeding frequency on body weight, carcass quality and hormonal profiles. control group was fed twice a day and treated group was fed six times a day by a stand...

BACKGROUND The present study sought to investigate the correlation of copeptin with the severity of septic status in patients with ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP), and to analyze the usefulness of copeptin as a predictor of mortality in VAP. METHODS The prospective observational cohort study was conducted in a teaching hospital. The subjects were 71 patients consecutively admitted to th...