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The Prevalence Of Behavioural Risk Factors Associated With Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, Ann M. Callaghan

Theses : Honours

Sudden Infant Death syndrome (SIDS) is a major cause of death in the first year of life. In Western Australia (WA), two infants in every thousand live births die from SIDS each year. The aim of this study was to ascertain the prevalence in WA of three risk factors which have been associated with SIDS, namely prone lying, maternal smoking and lack of breast feeding. In addition the study sought to determine the significant influences that encourage change in infant care practices by parents. The study obtained information from child health nurses and midwives regarding the advice they provide on …

The Biomechanical Analysis Of Two Types Of Place Kicks: The Toe And Instep Kicks, Kaylynn Albers

Masters Theses

This study described the biomechanical differences between two styles of the place kick; the toe kick and instep kick. The biomechanical variables included joint angles, velocities, and displacements. Five high school age subjects kicked five trials of the toe kick and five trials of the instep kick at both 20 and 35 yards. The place kicks were filmed with a high speed camera, digitized and analyzed with peak 4.2 computer software.

The findings for joint angles were consistent with those found in the literature. The velocity for the kicking foot and the ball were lower in this study than found …

Department Of Radiology-Annual Report-July 1, 1992 To June 30, 1993, David C. Levin

Department of Radiology Administrative Documents and Reports

Department of Radiology Annual Report, July 1, 1992 to June 30, 1993. Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. 85 pages.

Signal Processing With Neural Networks, Pero Smrzlic

Masters Theses

In this study, we introduce the Adaptive Back Propagation (ABP) learning algorithm, computationally superior to the standard Back Propagation. The ABP is based on the new activation function, with its corresponding adaptive learning parameter. By using the combination of computer simulations and analysis in the domain of activation function, the Method of One Hidden layer was developed for the effective utilization of units in one-hidden layer networks. A parallel version of the ABP was designed and implemented on a nCUBE-2 supercomputer with 128 processors.

The simulation results suggested a strong correlation between frequency of signals and the role of hidden …

Prevalence Of Thalassemia Minor Trait In Pakistani Population Presented At Akuh For Complete Blood Count Estimation (Cbc)., Alia Shaikh, Mohammad Khurshid

Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

No abstract provided.

Ms211: Dbase For The Invitational Conference In Houston, Armin Weinberg

Works on Radiation Effects: 1990-2020

This appears to be the master database of the folks invited to our International Conference hosted by TMH, BCM, THMRF etc. in 1993? It is a treasure trove of those we initially invited from both Israel, Japan, former USSR (Russia, Ukraine, etc.) and of course USA! It has phone and institutional affiliations, flights, etc. See more at Armin Weinberg, PhD Papers and its finding aid.

Digest Of The Philadelphia College Of Osteopathic Medicine (Spring 1993), Philadelphia College Of Osteopathic Medicine

Digest

The Spring 1993 issue of the Digest of the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine includes the following aritcles:

• President's Perspective
• Community Service the Osteopathic Way: Being a DO Means Caring about the Community
• Weaving Community Issues with Medical Practice
• Special Events Fundraising Begins at PCOM
• Campus Briefs
• PCOM in the News
• Microbiology Professors Receive Awards
• Commitment to Medicine and Education Take Alumni around the World
• Class Acts
• Just Published
• In Memoriam
• Coming Events

The Ring Butterfly Fragment, Philippe D`Sousa, Masood Umer, Riaz Hussain Lakdawala

Department of Surgery Docs

No abstract provided.

Self-Efficacy And Self-Care In The Hypertensive Female Patient, Robert Davis Lutz

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

This study focused upon physician/patient interaction as it pertains to patient involvement in personal health-care planning decision making, and self-care. The study was a multi-intervention trial that allowed for testing the effectiveness of two instruments used separately or simultaneously, in combination. Participants were 73 female patients, ages 41 to 76, diagnosed with essential hypertension and requiring medication for control.

Patients were randomly assigned to four groups: 1) a control group that was given no intervention, 2) a Pre-Knowledge Intervention (PKI) group that was given an interactive treatment plan with foreknowledge of what their physicians would probably do at their next …

Oral Contraceptives And Reproductive Cancers: Weighing The Risks And Benefits, Ann L. Coker, Susan Harlap, Judith A. Fortney

CRVAW Faculty Journal Articles

The hypothetical incidence of reproductive cancers resulting from oral contraceptive use was estimated in several models comparing the cumulative lifetime incidence of cancer of the breast, cervix, ovary and endometrium expected in pill users with the incidence expected in nonusers. The potential number of cancer-free days that would be gained or lost by pill users was com- pared with similar estimates among nonusers. If five years or more of pill use were associated with a 20% increase in the risk of breast cancerbeing diagnosed before age 50, a 20% increase in cervical cancer risk and a 50% reduction in the …

Oncolog, Volume 38, Number 03, July-September 1993, Staff

OncoLog MD Anderson's Report to Physicians (All issues) Archives

• Liposomal cisplatin analogue is less toxic and more effective than cisplatin
• Physicians can help allay fear by helping patients understand cancer risk
• The physician's role in smoking cessation

Oncolog, Volume 38, Number 02, April-June 1993, Staff

OncoLog MD Anderson's Report to Physicians (All issues) Archives

• Ultraviolet radiation suppresses immune system, laboratory studies show
• New physician network brings M. D. Anderson to local communities
• The physician as scientist

Molecular Characterization Of Neurotransmitter Transporters, Saad Shafqat, M Velaz- Faircloth, A Guadaño- -Ferraz, R T Fremeau

Section of Neurology

No abstract provided.

Comparison Of Primiparous Women's Expected And Experienced Pain In Labour, Shelagh Lawrence

Theses : Honours

Pain is a subjective phenomenon and is, in varying degrees, an inherent part of the childbirth experience. However, most Western societies view suffering as unacceptable and as such, regard analgesia as a necessity. Many women do not anticipate the intensity of pain experienced in childbirth and are, therefore, not ready to manage this amount of pain when it occurs. This prospective study compared the expected and experienced labour pain of 99 primiparous women, aged 17-40 years. The relationship between expected and experienced pain and acceptance of pregnancy; identification with the motherhood role; relationship with mother; relationship with husband/partner; preparation for …

Malabsorption Of Nutrients In Children With Diarrhoea Due To Unknown Aetiologies, Ayesha Molla, Mohammad Khurshid, Abdul Majid Molla, Makhduma Khatun

Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Intake and coefficient of absorption of nutrients wefe measured in 72 children dufing acute diarrhoea and 2 weeks after fecovery. No diarrhooeal pathogens could be identified in 18 (25%) childfen (group I). Aetiology of diafrhoea was identified in fest of the 54 children (group II). Absofption of oalofie, fat and cafbohydrate during the recovery stage were similaf in all 72 children, In group I, absorption of nutrients improved from acute stage to recovery stage as follows: fat from 62 to 85%, calofies from 68 to 86% and carbohydrate from 81 to 91%. Absorption of nitrogen during the acute stage was …

Ms211: Trip Report On Initial Consortium Visit To Areas Effected By Chernobyl Accident, Armin Weinberg

Works on Radiation Effects: 1990-2020

Armin's impressions of first visit to former USSR Russia, Ukraine and Israel by our group at that time referred to as International Consortium for Research and Treatment of Radiation... sent to Admiral Zumwalt (who also traveled to Moscow and Bryansk but not to Ukraine where Armin went with Boris Yoffe, also Larry Laufman and Phil McCarthy went from Russia to Israel with our Hadassah colleagues.) See more at Armin Weinberg, PhD Papers and its finding aid.

Digest Of The Philadelphia College Of Osteopathic Medicine (Fall 1992), Philadelphia College Of Osteopathic Medicine

Digest

The Fall 1992 issue of the Digest of the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine includes the following articles:

• President's Perspective: PCOM Gains Momentum for Future Challenges
• Postgraduate Program Continues to Grow
• $1 Million Gift Sets Pace for New Fundraising Campaign
• Leonard H. Finkelstein, '59, Receives ACOS 'Distinguished Surgeon Award'
• Exhibits and Poster Sessions
• PCOM Wishes its Best to an Outgoing Dean
• Classic Wisely
• From Colleagues and Co-Workers
• Orchestrating a Life of Music and Medicine
• Rockwell Collector Turns Museum Owner
• Just Published
• Class Acts
• In Memoriam
• Coming Events

Statistical Analysis Of Histomorphological Findings In Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma: Distinction Between The Different Familial Forms Of The Disease, B. Franc, M. Rosenberg-Bourgin, B. Auvert, B. Caillou, N. Dutrieux-Berger, J. Floquet, M. Houcke-Lecomte, E. Justrabo, F. Labat-Moleur, M. F. Le Bodic, A. Pages, M. Patey, G. Viennet, F. Vilde, J. P. Saint-Andre

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

A multifactorial analysis of morphological findings was performed on 153 cases of medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC). The aim of the study was to utilize histological criteria to discriminate between MTC associated with multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2A (MEN 2A) and that associated with the inherited MTC only syndrome. The presence of fusiform cells associated with several other markers seemed to he more predictive of MEN 2A. A comparison of inherited MTC only and sporadic MTC only showed fusiform cells to be significantly less common in inherited MTC only. These results suggest that the inherited MTC only syndrome is a distinct …

Prospective Screening In Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Type 1, Britt Skogseid, Kjell Oberg

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

To assess the age of clinically detectable onset of multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1 (MEN 1), 88 members of four families were invited to participate in a ten-year biochemical screening program. Evidence for clinically detectable MEN 1 was found in adolescence. Pancreatic endocrine dysfunction constituted the presenting lesion in a majority of these individuals. The age at diagnosis of pancreatic endocrine tumors averaged 25 years and was lowered by almost two decades by prospective investigation. Furthermore, the penetrance of the pancreatic endocrine and parathyroid lesions equaled the penetrance found in autopsy studies. The use of a standardized meal stimulation test …

Front Matter

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

No abstract provided.

Practical Guidelines For Dna-Based Testing In Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Type 1, Catharina Larsson, Magnus Nordenskjold, Britt Skogseid, Kjell Oberg

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

Multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1 (MEN 1) is an autosomal dominant predisposition to neoplastic lesions of the parathyroid glands, the neuroendocrine pancreas, and the anterior pituitary gland. The predisposing genetic defect was localized to the long arm of chromosome 11 by genetic linkage analysis in three affected families. By analyzing six MEN 1 families with 14 DNA marker systems located close to the MEN 1 gene, we have developed a method to identify carriers of the MEN 1 predisposition. We describe practical aspects of such DNA-based diagnostic procedures.

Hyperparathyroidism With Normal Albumin-Corrected Total Calcium In Patients With Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Type 1, J. J. Shepherd, Bin Tean Teh, V. Parameswaran, R. David

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

In the largest reported family of patients with multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1 (MEN 1), hyperparathyroidism was expressed at first screening in 33 patients by elevation of ionized calcium (IC) (30 cases) or parathyroid hormone (three cases) without elevation of albumin-corrected total calcium (ACTC). Three of these 33 patients have shown a progressive rise in IC and later an elevation of ACTC. However, the age distribution suggests that in others the level of IC may remain stable at a minimally elevated level throughout life with ACTC remaining normal except for transient rises at the times of intercurrent illness or surgical …

Extracellular Ca2+ Sensing In C-Cells And Parathyroid Cells, Hans Scherubl, Maria Luisa Brandi, Jurgen Hescheler

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

An essential function of C-cells and parathyroid cells is to monitor the extracellular Ca²⁺ concentration. The Ca²⁺-dependent secretion of calcitonin (CT) and parathyroid hormone is known to be mediated by corresponding changes in the intracellular Ca²⁺ concentration. To address the question of whether Ca²⁺ influx through voltage-dependent Ca²⁺ channels couples the extracellular to the intracellular Ca²⁺, we applied the patch clamp technique to C-cells of the rMTC 44-2 cell line and to parathyroid cells of the PT-r cell line. The rMTC cells displayed dihydropyridine-sensitive, voltage-dependent, high-threshold Ca²⁺ channels which allowed ion …

Renal Angiomyolipoma: An Uncommon Tumour, Zafar Nazir, Jamsheer J. Talati

Section of Urology

No abstract provided.

Dimarco V. Lynch Homes-Chester County, Inc.: How Far Should West Virginia Go In Extension Of Physician Liability For Transmission Of Communicable Disease, Rebecca Coffield Moore

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.

Soft Tissue Changes Of The Upper Lip Following Isolated Le Fort I Osteotomies, Kendall E. James

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

Pre-operative (T-1) and post-operative (T-3) radiographs were obtained and traced for fifty-one non-growing patients who had undergone isolated Le Fort I osteotomies. These tracings were then digitized with the results arranged in a data file and subjected to statistical analysis. The purpose of this study was to establish ratios for certain hard to soft tissue movements that could be used to aid the clinician in post-surgical soft tissue profile prediction. The results showed that even though a large sample was used, individual patient variability remained high particularly in the horizontal directions. Most ratios found in this study were consistent with …

Condylar Angulations As Related To Submental-Vertex Radiographs, Jady L. Chiakowsky

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

Pretreatment submental-vertex radiographs were obtained for 637 adolescent patients (307 males, 330 females) who had presented themselves for orthodontic treatment. The purpose of this study was to: (1) determine the relationship between condylar angulations and depth of cut with the variables: age, sex, and race, and (2) establish normative values for the categories studied. The results indicated that no significant differences existed between the condylar angulations for the variables measured. However, significant differences did exist between the depth of cut for the variables measured and there was significant interaction between age and race with respect to the depth of cut. …

Neutron Fluence And Dose From A Varian Clinic 1800 Accelerator, Richard A. Jackson

Theses and Dissertations

The goals of this study were (1) to verify calibration factors determined by previous experiment for relating counts from activated gold foils to neutron fluences, and (2) to use the method to determine neutron fluences under various operating conditions of the Varian Clinac 1800 (18-MeV) electron accelerator at the WPAFB Medical Center. For comparison similar measurements were made of the CGM Saturne 1 at Kettering Memorial Hospital, Dayton, Ohio. Cadmium-difference pairs in a standard graphite pile were employed to verify the counting efficiency of the Geiger-Mueller beta counting system used to count the foil activity. They were also used to …

Alternative Splicing Of Human Prostaglandin G/H Synthase Mrna And Evidence Of Differential Regulation Of The Resulting Transcripts By Transforming Growth Factor Beta 1, Interleukin 1 Beta, And Tumor Necrosis Factor Alpha., Arturo Diaz, Anthony M. Reginato, Sergio A. Jimenez

Department of Medicine Faculty Papers

Prostaglandin G/H synthase (PGG/HS) is the rate-limiting enzyme in the conversion of arachidonic acid to prostaglandins and thromboxanes. We screened a human lung fibroblast cDNA library with an ovine PGG/HS cDNA and isolated a 2.3-kilobase clone (HCO-T9). Sequence analysis of this clone showed that (a) it contained the entire translated region of PGG/HS and (b) it displayed an in-frame splicing of the last 111 base pairs encoded by exon 9, which resulted in the elimination of the N-glycosylation site at residue 409. Polymerase chain reaction amplification with specific oligonucleotides of reverse-transcribed mRNA from diverse human tissues and cultured cells yielded …

The Effects Of Orthopaedic Surgery And Dorsal Rhizotomy On Selected Gait Characteristics Of Cerebral Palsy Children, Danielle M. Lanoue

Rehabilitation Sciences Theses & Dissertations

Surgical management of cerebral palsy children typically involves multiple orthopaedic surgeries in order to achieve and maintain the maximum functional level of ambulation. Orthopaedic intervention to address lower extremity spasticity often includes: muscle lengthenings, muscle releases and tendon transfers. The most recent advance in management of lower extremity spasticity has been through a neurosurgical approach; selective dorsal rhizotomy. The long term effects of dorsal rhizotomy are still being investigated. Through the use of instrumented gait analysis, the specific objective results of both of these types of surgeries can be investigated. The purpose of this retrospective study was to examine the …