Correspondence: Marcus Tolentino Silva – Rod. Raposo Tavares, Km 92,5, Sorocaba-SP, CEP: 18023-000 E-mail: [email protected] Health economic evaluation studies are conducted in many different ways, depending on the health outcomes selected. In the present paper, we discuss the main types of outcomes used, presenting their characteristics, how to measure them and the scientific evidences that t...

Clarissa B. Oliveira, Ítalo R. T. Medeiros, Mario G. Greters, Norberto A. F. Frota, Leandro Tavares Lucato, Milberto Scaff, Adriana B. Conforto I AACD Adult Physiotherapy, São Paulo/SP, Brazil. II Hospital das Clı́nicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, Neurology, São Paulo/ SP, Brazil. III Hospital das Clı́nicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, Otorhino...

In urban centres of industrialising countries, the majority of houses are served by on-site sanitation systems such as septic tanks and unsewered toilets. The faecal sludges (FS) collected from these systems are usually discharged untreated into the urban and peri-urban environment, posing great risks to water resources and to public health. Contrary to wastewater management, the development of...

The N-acylhydrazone (NAH) moiety is considered a privileged structure, being present in many compounds with diverse pharmacological activities. Among the activities attributed to NAH derivatives anti-inflammatory and analgesic ones are recurrent. As part of a research program aiming at the design of new analgesic and anti-inflammatory lead-candidates, a series of cyclohexyl-N-acylhydrazones 10-...

Yiyi Wang, Ph.D. 3 (Corresponding Author) 4 Assistant Professor 5 Cobleigh Hall 214 6 Civil Engineering Department 7 Montana State University 8 Bozeman, MT 59715 9 Phone: 406-994-6051 10 Fax: 406-994-6105 11 [email protected] 12 13 David Veneziano, Ph.D. 14 Institute for Transportation 15 Iowa State University 16 2711 S. Loop Drive, Suite 4700 17 Ames, IA 50010-8664 18 Phone: 515-294-548...

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Abbreviations AT, artificial tears; TRPM8, transient receptor potential melastatin 8; Vc, 19 subnucleus caudalis; Vi, subnucleus interpolaris; Vsp, spinal trigeminal nucleus 20 21 22 Corresponding author: 23 Ian D. Meng, PhD 24 Department of Biomedical Sciences 25 University of New England 26 11 Hills Beach Rd. 27 Biddeford, ME 04005 28 Phone: (207) 602-2195 29 Fax: (207) 294-5931 30 E-mail: im...

May O, Arildsen H, Møller M (Odense University Hospital, Odense and Horsens Hospital, Horsens, Denmark). Parasympathetic function during deep breathing in the general population: relation to coronary risk factors and normal range. J Intern Med 1999; 245: 287–94. Objectives. To examine the association between the parasympathetic function assessed by deep breathing-induced heart rate variability ...