on the population covered by the Mexican Social Security Institute (MSSI). The MSSI offers health services to people with a steady job (for example, industrial and services workers, employees, teachers) and their families and attends about 60% of childbearing in Guadalajara. A probabilistic sample was designed, representative of the first live births (25 662) and their respective mothers. Subje...

BACKGROUND Both early life stress and neuropathic pain induce morphological and functional abnormalities of the nervous system that are associated with emotional regulation. In our previous study, early life stress enhanced nerve injury-induced hyperalgesia in adult male and female mice. In the present study, using phosphorylated extracellular signal-regulated kinase (p-ERK) as a marker of neur...

Our previous studies demonstrated that emotional dysfunction associated with early life stress exacerbated nerve injury-induced mechanical allodynia. Sex differences were observed in several anxiety tests, but not in mechanical allodynia. To elucidate the mechanism underlying these findings, we have now investigated the involvement of astrocytes in emotional dysfunction and enhancement of nerve...

OBJECTIVES Menopausal instruments usually assess the frequency or intensity of symptoms. The present study develops and validates an inventory to assess the severity of menopausal symptoms through the measurement of their frequency and intensity, and explores the differences between women with different menopausal status. METHODS A community sample of 992 Portuguese women in pre-, peri- and p...

We present Multi Scale Shape Index (MSSI), a novel feature for 3D object recognition. Inspired by the scale space filtering theory and Shape Index measure proposed by Koenderink & Van Doorn [6], this feature associates different forms of shape, such as umbilics, saddle regions, parabolic regions to a real valued index. This association is useful for representing an object based on its constitue...

The Optical communication network offers very high potential bandwidth and flexibility In terms of high bit-rate transmission. However, their performance slows down due to some parameter like dispersion, attenuation, scattering and unsynchronized bit pattern. A chromatic dispersion compensator plays an essential role in the optical fiber communications system in order to recover the degraded tr...

The authors conducted the 1st large-sample factor-analytic study of the Modified Scale for Suicidal Ideation (MSSI; I. W. Miller, W. H. Norman, S. B. Bishop, & M. G. Dow, 1986) on a sample of 330 suicidal young adults. Factor analyses revealed 2 MSSI factors: Suicidal Desire and Ideation (ongoing thoughts or desires about suicide) and Resolved Plans and Preparation (intense thoughts, plans, and...

BACKGROUND Ocular signs of Fabry disease can be seen in the first decade of life. METHODS We examined the occurrence of ocular signs in 232 paediatric patients in the Fabry Outcome Survey (FOS) international registry and looked for relationships between the presence of eye findings and disease severity as measured by the FOS Mainz severity score index (FOS-MSSI). RESULTS At least one ocular...