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Prevalence Of Hepatitis B And Hepatitis C In Blood Donors And High Risk Groups In Hajjah, Yemen Republic, Nassir A. Haidar

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: To determine the prevalence of hepatitis B antigen and anti-hepatitis C virus (HCV) antibodies in blood donors, hospital employees, patients suspected to have liver disease, and hemodialysis patients. METHODS: This study was conducted from April 1997 through to September 1999 as a hospital based study in Hajjah, Republic of Yemen. All healthy blood donors, hospital employees, suspected hepatitis patients and patients in the hemodialysis unit were included in this study. The hepatitis B antigen (HbsAg) measured in IMX system (Abott) using the monoclonal anti-HBs assays. The Hepatitis C screened by the same system using HCV version 3.0 [Third generation …

Stage Iv Oral Cavity Carcinoma. Is Conventional Radical Treatment An Option?, Nasser Al-Rajhi, Mohammad Saleem, Abdullah S. Al-Amro, Ashraf M. El-Enbaby, Gamal A. El-Husseiny, Zeyad Z. Mahasin, Kalid M. Taibah, Ali M. Al-Zahrani

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the outcome of radical treatment for patients with stage IV squamous cell carcinoma of the oral cavity. METHODS: Using head and neck tumor database, 57 patients with stage IV non-metastatic invasive squamous cell carcinoma of the oral cavity treated with curative intent at King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, between July 1992 and June 1998, were identified and retrospectively reviewed. RESULTS: Our cohort of patients consisted of 33 males and 24 females, with a median age of 65 years. The primary sites were alveolus (26), tongue (22), buccal mucosa (6), floor …

Sleep Problems Among Pupils In Benghazi, Libya, Marwan M. Al-Sharbati

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: To find the prevalence of sleep problems among pupils, its possible causes and associated behaviors. METHODS: This study was carried out during 3-24 February 1996. We randomly selected a sample of (277) 5th graders (181 boys and 96 girls), from 3 public primary schools in 3 different socio-economic areas in Benghazi, Libya. We interviewed the pupils and the teachers by a pretested questionnaire concerning sleep, school achievement and other behaviors. Those pupils who sleep after 10:00 pm, or those having bad sleep characters, or both, twice or more a week in the last month, were considered suffering from sleep …

Parents' Attitude Towards Children's First Dental Visit In The College Of Dentistry, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Thakib A. Al-Shalan, Basim A. Al-Musa, Abdulmoniem M. Al-Khamis

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: The objectives of this study were to evaluate parents9 awareness about the timing of the first dental visit for their children, the parents9 attitude toward behavior modification for their children at the first dental visit, and to determine the main reasons for bringing the child to the dentist in the first visit among the Saudi parents attending the dental school at the College of Dentistry, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. METHODS: A self-administered questionnaire consisting of 12 items was distributed to any adult patient reporting at the Registration Appointments and Records Division of King Saud University, …

Can We Predict Prognosis Using Mortality Probability Model Iio?, Yaseen Arabi, Radoslow Goraj, Abdullah Al-Shimemeri, Salim Al-Malik

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate Mortality Probability Model (MPM) II0 as a tool to predict very poor prognosis after intensive care unit admission. METHODS: The study was conducted as a prospective observational study in a medical-surgical intensive care unit in a tertiary care teaching hospital, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Data necessary to calculate MPM II0 predicted mortality was collected from March 1999 through to February 2000 on all intensive care unit admissions. The hospital outcome was documented. We calculated the sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value and negative predictive value of MPM II0 using cutoff points of 90% and 95%. RESULTS: Data …

Antiphospholipid Antibodies Associated With Different Presentations At A University Hospital, Faiza A. Qari

Saudi Medical Journal

No abstract provided.

Relationship Between Secondary Metabolism And Fungal Development, Ana M. Calvo, Richard A. Wilson, Jin Woo Bok, Nancy P. Keller

Fungal Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Details findings related to the relationship between secondary metabolism and fungal development.

Unfair Trade Practices, Antitrust And Consumer Welfare In North Carolina, John F. Graybeal

North Carolina Law Review

No abstract provided.

Illegal Billboards: Why The General Assembly Should Revise The Outdoor Advertising Control Act To Comply With North Carolina Easement Law, Timothy J. Fete Jr.

North Carolina Law Review

No abstract provided.

Hendricks V. Sanks: One Small Step For The Continued Parental Support Of Disabled Children Beyond The Age Of Majority In North Carolina, Jeffrey W. Childers

North Carolina Law Review

No abstract provided.

Insensible Perspiration And Oily Vegetable Humor: An Eighteenth Century Controversy Over Vegetarianism, Ken Albala

College of the Pacific Faculty Articles

Quack diets are nothing new. Nor have they always been easily dismissed. In eighteenth-century Italy, a virulent controversy arose over a meatless wonder diet. This controversy would eventually play itself out in the field of nutritional theory, as dietary writers crambled to incorporate the latest scientific findings into their recommendations.

Inside Unlv, Diane Russell

Inside UNLV

No abstract provided.

Bilateral Facial Palsy: A Casereport And Literature Review, Yu-Chin Chen, Shin-Ching Chen, Chien-Chung Lai, Chien-Hung Lai, Chih-Yu Chiu

Rehabilitation Practice and Science

Bilateral peripheral facial palsy (BPFP) is a rare disease. It occurs in less than one percent of patients with facial palsy. The average annual incidence rate is 0.13 to 0.2 persons per million. The etiologies of BPFP differ a little from those of unilateral peripheral facial palsy. The diagnosis depends on a series of complete examinations. We reported two cases with BPFP. One was bilateral simultaneous, and the other was bilateral alternating type. Case one was a patient with Guillain-Barre syndrome. His residual bilateral facial palsy lasted more than two months after the paresis of four limbs had subsided. The …

Inhibition Of Amyloid-Β Aggregation And Caspase-3 Activation By The Ginkgo Biloba Extract Egb761, Yuan Luo, Julie V. Smith, Vijaykumar Paramasivam, Adam Burdick, Kenneth J. Curry, Justin P. Buford, Ikhlas Khan, William J. Netzer, Huaxi Xu, Peter Butko

Faculty Publications

Standardized extract from the leaves of the Ginkgo biloba tree, labeled EGb761, has been used in clinical trials for its beneficial effects on brain functions, particularly in connection with age-related dementias and Alzheimer's disease (AD). Substantial experimental evidence indicates that EGb761 protects against neuronal damage from a variety of insults, but its cellular and molecular mechanisms remain unknown. Using a neuroblastoma cell line stably expressing an AD-associated double mutation, we report that EGb761 inhibits formation of amyloid-β (Aβ) fibrils, which are the diagnostic, and possibly causative, feature of AD. The decreased Aβ fibrillogenesis in the presence of EGb761 was observed …

Evolution And Dynamics Of Tropical River Plumes In The Great Barrier Reef: An Integrated Remote Sensing And In Situ Study, D.M. Burrage, M.L. Heron, J.M. Hacker, T.C. Stieglitz, C.R. Steinberg, A. Prytz

Faculty Publications

[1] The short-lived but intense discharge of freshwater from tropical rivers into the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) Lagoon and the associated salinity reductions are a critical consideration in marine research and management of the ecologically sensitive GBR World Heritage Area. Salinity provides a unique tracer that gives clues to the origin of river-borne contaminants and allows the influences of storm-induced resuspension and river discharge on turbidity to be clearly distinguished. We describe a field investigation of the evolution and dynamics of the Herbert River plume in the central GBR. Its primary goals were to use an airborne salinity mapper and …

The Concept Of Healthy Ageing In Hong Kong, Mei Lan, Mandy Chiu

Lingnan Theses

The purpose of this study is to explore the concept of ‘Healthy Ageing’ in Hong Kong. The research attempts to explore the historical base from which ‘Healthy Ageing’ has been conceptualized in both Western and Chinese societies. This study also tries to provide an overview of literature that relevant to the ‘Healthy Ageing’ concept, and to provide an initial theoretical framework of ‘Healthy Ageing’ in a Hong Kong Chinese context.

This study mainly adopts a qualitative approach in exploring the meaning of the concept. Since that ‘Healthy Ageing’ is likely to be conceptualized from the concept of health and ageing, …

Ascertaining Patient Condition : A Grounded Theory Study Of Diagnostic Practice In Nursing, Kok Long, Joseph Lee

Lingnan Theses

In the past decade, much research has been conducted on the practice nurses engage in diagnosing the clinical condition of patients. Many of the studies suggest that diagnostic practices of nurses in simulation settings follow a hypothetical deductive model that similar to the clinical decision-making or diagnostic reasoning process. A second line of inquiry claims that experience used in conjunction with intuition form the major core of diagnostic practice in nursing. However, these studies either assume nurses are reasoned in a primarily rationalist fashion or offer no conclusive explanations of the details on how intuition directs diagnostic practices. In particular, …

Latter-Day Saint Doctrine Of Baptism For The Dead, Richard E. Turley-Jr.

BYU Family Historian

No abstract provided.

Teaching The Poetry Of Latter-Day Saint Scripture, Roger G. Baker

Religious Educator: Perspectives on the Restored Gospel

No abstract provided.

Walter Simons, Cities Of Ladies. Beguine Communities In The Medieval Low Countries, 1200-1565, The Middle Ages Series. University Of Pennsylvania Press, 2001, Christine Mcwebb

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.

Pray Always (D&C 19:38), S. Brent Farley

Religious Educator: Perspectives on the Restored Gospel

No abstract provided.

A Voice Of Gladness For The Living And The Dead (D&C 128:19), Susan Easton Black

Religious Educator: Perspectives on the Restored Gospel

No abstract provided.

Ventilatory Phenotypes Among Four Strains Of Adult Rats., Matthew Hodges, Hubert Forster, Paula E. Papanek, Melinda R. Dwinell, Genevieve E. Hogan

Exercise Science Faculty Research and Publications

Our purpose in this study was to identify different ventilatory phenotypes among four different strains of rats. We examined 114 rats from three in-house, inbred strains and one outbred strain: Brown Norway (BN;n = 26), Dahl salt-sensitive (n = 24), Fawn-hooded Hypertensive (FHH: n = 27), and outbred Sprague-Dawley rats (SD; n = 37). We measured eupneic (room air) breathing and the ventilatory responses to hypoxia (12% O₂-88% N₂), hypercapnia (7% CO₂), and two levels of submaximal exercise. Primary strain differences were between BN and the other strains. BN rats had a …

Risky Business: Attorney Liability In Insurance Defense Litigation-A Review Of The Arizona Supreme Court's Decision In Paradigm Insurance Co. V. Langerman Law Offices

BYU Law Review

No abstract provided.

Minority Education Policy In Azerbaijan And Iran, Val D. Rust, Hаmlеt Isaxanli, Afgan Abdullayev

Khazar Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences

No abstract provided.

Jefferson Alumni Bulletin – Volume 51, Number 4, September 2002

The Bulletin (formerly the Jefferson Medical College Alumni Bulletin)

Jefferson Alumni Bulletin – Volume 51, Number 4, September 2002 Dean's Message by Dean Thomas J. Nasca ’75, page 4 Achievement Award Winner Charles Francis ’65, page 6 Jim Bagian ’77 Receives an Honorary Doctorate, page 7 Reunions and Annual Giving, page 12 Class notes attached as supplemental file.

From Henry Street To Contracted Services: Financing The Settlement House, Robert Fisher, Michael Fabricant

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

This article tracks historically the direct connection and shifting relationship between the larger political economy, the extent and arrangement of financing, and agency programming in the settlement house from 1886 to the present, with particular attention to agency experience in New York City. During this time the settlements changed from being informal organizations oriented to service provision and community building, in which funding was a highly private matter, to formalized, multiservice agencies dependent on contracted public funds for categorical programs. This transformation resulted not as a linear progression of organizational development but rather as an historical process tied to shifting …

"I Raised My Kids On The Bus": Transit Shift Workers' Coping Strategies For Parenting, Blanche Grosswald

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

The study investigated coping strategies for parenting of transit shift workers, an urban, blue-collar, primarily ethnic minority population. It involved a qualitative, grounded theory approach, using individual interviews with 30 San Francisco bus drivers.

The principal aspect of the job impacting transit workers' relationships with their children was the lack of time they had together. Drivers had to be creative to find ways to care for their children. They could not rely exclusively on formal child care because hours at childcare centers did not match their job schedules. Coping strategies for care included taking children on the bus, working shifts …

Beyond Welfare Or Work: Teen Mothers, Household Subsistence Strategies, And Child Development Outcomes, Gunnar Almgren, Greg Yamashiro, Miguel Ferguson

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

There is probably no aspect of the work versus welfare debate that is more contested than the effects of welfare use on child development outcomes. Liberals tend to emphasize the detrimental effects of poverty and welfare stigma on children, while conservatives cite the negative socialization that occurs regarding the value of work within welfare dependent families. However, large scale longitudinal studies that have been used to address this question only indirectly measure critical influences on child development such as maternal mental health and do not consider the effect that a range of economic strategies that low-income mothers might undertake may …

Recruitment And Foster Family Service, Mary Ellen Cox, Cheryl Buehler, John G. Orme

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Using data from the National Survey of Current and Former Foster Parents this study examined how foster parents first found out about the need for foster parents (mass media, other foster parents, religious organization, or civic organization) affected foster family service (number of children fostered, years of fostering service, fostering of children with special needs, and families' intent to continue fostering). Respondents who became aware of the need for foster parents through religious organizations fosteredfor more years; respondents who became aware through mass media fostered for fewer years. How foster families first found out about the need for foster parents …