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To ask other readers questions about Temas de Psicologia - Entrevistas y Grupos , please sign up. Be the first to ask a question about Temas de Psicologia - Entrevistas y Grupos. Lists with This Book. This book is not yet featured on Listopia. Silvia rated it it was amazing May 27, Brenda rated it really liked it Aug 19, Milou Pujol rated it liked it Mar 05, Mjlelis rated it really liked it Jan 17, Isabela rated it really liked it Jun 11, Lorena rated it really liked it May 03, Julieta Ochoa rated it it was ok Dec 24, Javier rated it it was amazing Feb 26, Ardillis marked it as to-read Nov 29, Fernanda added it Aug 10, Cris added it Sep 15, Tatiane Neme Campos Brustelo added it Apr 16, Lean marked it as to-read Sep 27, Cecilia Diez marked it as to-read Nov 17, Alicia TN added it Jan 26, Emiliano Gasparetti marked it as to-read Apr 11, This interactive adjunct to traditional concussion management was appreciated among this participant group, which indicates the feasibility of a future, larger study of i Con.

Athletic trainers should consider the role that multimedia technologies may play in assisting with the management of sport concussion. B cells as accessory cells in a Con A response of a T cell clone. For the initiation of a proliferative response to Con A, the addition of spleen cells or spleen adherent cells was required. B cells as AC were unable to induce the proliferative response. The response was inhibited by a relevant monoclonal anti-I-A antibody.

Coagulase negative Staphylococci CoNS are common inhabitants of human skin and mucous membranes. With the emergence of these organisms as prominent pathogens in patients with ocular infections, investigation has intensified in an effort to identify important virulence factors and to inform new approaches to treatment and prevention.

To isolate CoNS from ocular specimens; to study the possible virulence factors; speciation of coagulase negative staphylococci CoNS which were isolated from ocular complications; antibiotic susceptibility testing of ocular CoNS. The specimens were collected from the target patients who attended the Microbiology Laboratory of a tertiary care eye hospital in Coimbatore, Tamilnadu state, India. The isolates were subjected to tube and slide coagulase tests for the identification of CoNS.

All the isolates were subjected to screening for lipase and protease activities. Screening for other virulence factors viz. These isolates were identified upto species level by performing biochemical tests such as phosphatase test, arginine test, maltose and trehalose fermentation tests and novobiocin sensitivity test. During the one year of study, among the total individuals who were screened, isolates of CoNS were obtained.

Lipolytic activity was seen in all the isolates, whereas 38 isolates showed a positive result for protease. A total of 63 isolates showed slime production. Of isolates, 30 isolates were analyzed for haemagglutination, where 4 isolates showed the capacity to agglutinate the erythrocytes. Con A-based glucose sensing using the long-lifetime azadioxatriangulenium fluorophore. Fluorescent glucose sensing technologies have been identified as possible alternatives to current continuous glucose monitoring approaches. We have recently introduced a new, smart fluorescent ligand to overcome the traditional problems of Con A-based glucose sensors.

For this assay to be translated into a continuous glucose monitoring device where both components are free in solution, the molecular weight of the smart fluorescent ligand must be increased. We have identified ovalbumin as a naturally-occurring glycoprotein that could serve as the core-component of a 2nd generation smart fluorescent ligand. It has a single asparagine residue that is capable of displaying an N-linked glycan and a similar isoelectric point to Con A. Thus, binding between Con A and ovalbumin can potentially be monovalent and sugar specific.

This work is the preliminary implementation of fluorescently-labeled ovalbumin in the Con A-based assay. Although different interaction modalities have been proposed in the field of human-computer interface HCI , only a few of these techniques could reach the end users because of scalability and usability issues. Given the popularity and the growing number of IoT devices, selecting one out of many devices becomes a hurdle in a typical smarthome environment. Therefore, an easy-to-learn, scalable, and non-intrusive interaction modality has to be explored.

In this paper, we propose a pointing approach to interact with devices, as pointing is arguably a natural way for device selection. We introduce Sele Con for device selection and control which uses an ultra-wideband UWB equipped smartwatch. To interact with a device in our system, people can point to the device to select it then draw a hand gesture in the air to specify a control action. To this end, Sele Con employs inertial sensors for pointing gesture detection and a UWB transceiver for identifying the selected device from ranging measurements.

Furthermore, Sele Con supports an alphabet of gestures that can be used for controlling the selected devices. We performed our experiment in a 9 m -by m lab space with eight deployed devices. The results demonstrate that Sele Con can achieve We also show that Sele Con is power efficient to sustain daily use by turning off the UWB transceiver, when a user's wrist is stationary. Influence of protic ionic liquids on the structure and stability of succinylated Con A.

We report the synthesis of a series of ionic liquids ILs from various ions having different kosmotropicity including dihydrogen phosphate H 2 PO 4 - , hydrogen sulfate HSO 4 - and acetate CH 3 COO - as anions and chaotropic cation such as trialkylammonium cation. Further, our experimental results reveal that TEAP is an effective refolding enhancer for S Con A from a thermally denatured protein structure. The rapidly growing number of available prokaryotic genome sequences requires fully automated and high-quality software solutions for their initial and re-annotation.

Here we present Cons Pred, a prokaryotic genome annotation framework that performs intrinsic gene predictions, homology searches, predictions of non-coding genes as well as CRISPR repeats and integrates all evidence into a consensus annotation. Cons Pred achieves comprehensive, high-quality annotations based on rules and priorities, similar to decision-making in manual curation and avoids conflicting predictions. Parameters controlling the annotation process are configurable by the user. Cons Pred has been used in the institutions of the authors for longer than 5 years and can easily be extended and adapted to specific needs.

The Cons Pred algorithm for producing a consensus from the varying scores of multiple gene prediction programs approaches manual curation in accuracy. Its rule-based approach for choosing final predictions avoids overriding previous manual curations. Cons Pred is implemented in Java, Perl and Shell and is freely available under the Creative Commons license as a stand-alone in-house pipeline or as an Amazon Machine Image for cloud computing, see https: For Permissions, please e-mail: Large scale data analysis is nowadays a crucial part of drug discovery.

Biologists and chemists need to quickly explore and evaluate potentially effective yet safe compounds based on many datasets that are in relationship with each other. However, there is a lack of tools that support them in these processes. To remedy this, we developed Con Tour, an interactive visual analytics technique that enables the exploration of these complex, multi-relational datasets.

At its core Con Tour lists all items of each dataset in a column. Relationships between the columns are revealed through interaction: Filters based on relationships enable drilling down into the large data space. To identify interesting items in the first place, Con Tour employs advanced sorting strategies, including strategies based on connectivity strength and uniqueness, as well as sorting based on item attributes. Con Tour also introduces interactive nesting of columns, a powerful method to show the related items of a child column for each item in the parent column.

Within the columns, Con Tour shows rich attribute data about the items as well as information about the connection strengths to other datasets. Finally, Con Tour provides a number of detail views, which can show items from multiple datasets and their associated data at the same time. We demonstrate the utility of our system in case studies conducted with a team of chemical biologists, who investigate the effects of chemical compounds on cells and need to understand the underlying mechanisms.

The sludge will enter the container through two distributors. Selected results of the analysis and a system description are discussed. Some turbidity can be expected in the center bay where the container is located. The exact amount of overflow and subsequent turbidity is dependent on the density of the sludge which will vary with location in the Settler Tanks and the thermal gradient between the SCS- CON and the basin. Attachment A presents the full analytical results. Se presenta un nuevo metodo que permite resolver de manera exacta y analitica las ecuaciones que describen un jet hipersonico con velocidad de eyeccion variable en el tiempo.

El metodo se basa en consideraciones sencillas de conservacion de momento para las superficies de trabajo que se forman en el interior del jet. Como ejemplo, se presentan soluciones para jets con variacion sinusoidal en la velocidad de eyeccion, y tambien para el caso de un incremento lineal en el tiempo. Estas soluciones analiticas tienen una clara aplicacion en la interpretacion de las observaciones de jets asociados a objetos Herbig-Haro. However, with the benefits of this new technology comes added risk.

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Immobilized lectin chromatography can be employed for glycoprotein enrichment, but commonly used columns have limitations of yield and resolution. In order to improve efficiency and to make the technique applicable to minimal sample material, we have developed a nano-scale chelating Concanavalin A Con A monolithic capillary prepared using GMA-EDMA glycidyl methacrylate—co-ethylene dimethacrylate as polymeric support. Con A sandwich affinity structure that has high column capacity as well as stability.

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Coagulase-negative staphylococci CoNS are considered low pathogenic organisms. However, they are progressively causing more serious infections with time because they have adapted well to various antibiotics owing to their ability to form biofilms. Few studies have been conducted on CoNS in both, hospital and community-acquired settings, especially in Malaysia.

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The three technologies in the ATD-1 Con Ops achieve this by calculating a precise arrival schedule, using controller decision support tools to provide terminal controllers with speeds for aircraft to fly to meet times at a particular meter points, and onboard software providing flight crews with speeds for the aircraft to fly to achieve a particular spacing behind preceding aircraft. Las magnitudes de las estrellas son desde 0,9 a 10,7. Las declinaciones son desde ,5 grados a grados. This slide presentation reviews the study and findings of the study on the Concept of Operations Con Ops for Reusable Booster System RBS centering on rapid turnaround and launch of a two-stage partially reusable payload delivery system i.

The study was to develop rapid ground processing aircraft like concepts and identify areas for follow-on study, technology needs, and proof-of-concept demonstrations. Con Edison power failure of July 13 and 14, The collapse resulted from a combination of natural events, equipment malfunctions, questionable system-design features, and operating errors. An attempt is made in this report to answer the following: Following the introductory and summary section, additional sections include: The Con Surf web server http: Starting from a query sequence or structure, the server automatically collects homologues, infers their multiple sequence alignment and reconstructs a phylogenetic tree that reflects their evolutionary relations.

These data are then used, within a probabilistic framework, to estimate the evolutionary rates of each sequence position. Here we introduce several new features into Con Surf, including automatic selection of the best evolutionary model used to infer the rates, the ability to homology-model query proteins, prediction of the secondary structure of query RNA molecules from sequence, the ability to view the biological assembly of a query in addition to the single chain , mapping of the conservation grades onto 2D RNA models and an advanced view of the phylogenetic tree that enables interactively rerunning Con Surf with the taxa of a sub-tree.

Salud mental en desastres naturales: De tal forma se minimizan los efectos negativos de los determinantes sociales de la salud como la edad y el lugar de residencia en contexto de crisis; permitiendo a los adultos mayores fortalecer sus recursos individuales y colectivos, en pro de su bienestar psicosocial.

Recent exploration of the south east Nam Con Son Basin, offshore Vietnam, by BP in alliance with Statoil has involved acquisition of new seismic and well data. These new data have allowed re-evaluation of the tectono-stratigraphic development and petroleum geology, and have provided additional constraints on the regional tectonic evolution. The offshore Vietnamese basins have evolved in response to the complex relative motions of Indochina, Peninsular Malaysia, Borneo and the South China Sea during the Cenozoic.

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This pulsed structural and stratigraphic evolution has resulted in basinwide deposition of source, reservoir and seal facies, and produced a variety of potential trapping styles. This paper describes the hydrocarbon habitat of the south east Nam Con Son Basin within the context of the regional tectono-stratigraphic model.

Sequence homologues of each of the PDB entries were collected and aligned using standard methods. The evolutionary conservation of each amino acid position in the alignment was calculated using the Rate4Site algorithm, implemented in the Con Surf web server. The algorithm takes into account the phylogenetic relations between the aligned proteins and the stochastic nature of the evolutionary process explicitly.

Rate4Site assigns a conservation level for each position in the multiple sequence alignment using an empirical Bayesian inference. Visual inspection of the conservation patterns on the 3D structure often enables the identification of key residues that comprise the functionally important regions of the protein. The repository is updated with the latest PDB entries on a monthly basis and will be rebuilt annually.

Con Surf-DB is available online at http: What are the pros and cons of electronically monitoring inhaler use in asthma? Electronic monitoring devices EMDs are the optimal method for collecting objective data on inhaler use in asthma. Recent research has investigated the attitudes of patients with asthma towards these devices. However, no research to date has formally considered the opinions of stakeholders and decision-makers in asthma care.

These individuals have important clinical requirements that need to be taken into account if EMDs are to be successfully provisioned, making collecting their opinions on the key barriers facing these devices a valuable process. Three rounds of surveys in a Delphi format were used to assess the most important pros and cons of EMDs for asthma care in a sample of 31 stakeholders which included healthcare professionals and members of clinical commissioning groups.

The respondents identified 29 pros and 32 cons. Pros that were rated as most important included new visual evidence to aid clinical discussions with a patient and an increase in patient involvement and motivation. The cons that were rated as most important included a need for more clinical evidence of the effectiveness of EMDs, as well as better clarity over who has responsibilities in managing, interpreting and discussing data with a patient.

The research provides a guide for EMD developers by highlighting where these devices may provide the most benefit as well as prioritising the key issues that need addressing if they are to be used effectively in everyday asthma care. Introduction Electronic monitoring devices EMDs are the optimal method for collecting objective data on inhaler use in asthma. Methods Three rounds of surveys in a Delphi format were used to assess the most important pros and cons of EMDs for asthma care in a sample of 31 stakeholders which included healthcare professionals and members of clinical commissioning groups.

Results The respondents identified 29 pros and 32 cons. Conclusions The research provides a guide for EMD developers by highlighting where these devices may provide the most benefit as well as prioritising the key issues that need addressing if they are to be used effectively in everyday asthma care.

Young women's perspective of the pros and cons to seeking screening for chlamydia and gonorrhea: To identify young women's pros and cons decisional balance to seeking chlamydia CT and gonorrhea NGC screening. Content analysis of responses obtained during a decisional balance exercise pros and cons promoting CT and NGC screening was conducted. Thematic categories were developed through a coding process, and each response was assigned to one thematic category.

The frequency of pros and cons responses for each category and the frequency of participants endorsing each category were calculated.

A variety of pros and cons to seeking CT and NGC screening were identified at a community-based clinic. Providers in clinical settings can utilize this information when encouraging patients to seek regular STI screening by elucidating and emphasizing those pros and cons that have the most influence on a young woman's decision-making to seek screening. Thirty-eight centers in 14 European countries and Egypt. Subjects received one of three Trans Con GH doses 0. GH and insulinlike growth factor-1 IGF-1 levels, growth, adverse events, and immunogenicity. Both GH maximum concentration and area under the curve were similar following Trans Con GH or Genotropin administration at comparable doses.

Annualized mean height velocity for the three Trans Con GH doses ranged from Adverse events were mild to moderate, and most were unrelated to the study drug. Injection site tolerance was good. The results suggest that long-acting Trans Con GH is comparable to daily Genotropin for GH pharmacokinetics and IGF-1 pharmacodynamics levels, safety, and efficacy and support advancement into phase 3 development.

Cooperative phenomenon in the proliferation of thymocytes under Con A stimulation. In the present paper, the response of thymocytes to Con A is analyzed in terms of a cooperative phenomenon between medullary thymocytes, cortical thymocytes, thymic accessory cells, and interleukin 2. Medullary thymocytes respond spontaneously to Con A and produce IL The addition of exogenously produced IL-2 enhances their proliferation.

We discuss the fact that the phenotype of the cells after activation does not allow us to deduce the phenotype of their precursors. The wildland fire time histories for the radiative and convective heating environment were provided to AET-1 by EES Three wildland fire time histories for the radiative and convective heat transfer were provided by EES and were inputs for the FE simulation. A new program for the consensus analysis of protein-ligand interactions. Protein-based virtual screening of chemical libraries is a powerful technique for identifying new molecules that may interact with a macromolecular target of interest.

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In the present study, we present a consensus docking approach Cons Dock that takes advantage of three widely used docking tools Dock, FlexX, and Gold. The consensus analysis of all possible poses generated by several docking tools is performed sequentially in four steps: When applied to a test set of protein-ligand complexes from the Protein Data Bank, Cons Dock significantly outperforms single docking with respect to the docking accuracy of the top-ranked pose.

It can be applied as a postprocessing filter to either single- or multiple-docking programs to prioritize three-dimensional guided lead optimization from the most likely docking solution.

Copyright Wiley-Liss, Inc. The validation included a precision, carry-over, categorical correlation and diagnostic performance study with manual phase-contrast microscopy as reference method. A total of routine urine samples were assessed. The within-run precision was much better at higher concentrations than at very low concentrations. The precision met our predefined limits for all the elements at the different concentrations, with the exception of the lowest RBC, the WBC, pathological casts and crystals count. There was no sample carry-over. The analyser showed good categorical agreement with manual microscopy for RBC and WBC counts, moderate agreement for yeast cells, crystals and squamous epithelial cells and bad agreement for non-squamous epithelial cells, bacteria and casts.

We conclude that the sediMAX con TRUST should be used as a screening tool in combination with an automatic strip reader, for the identification of normal samples. Therefore, adequate review rules should be defined. Manual microscopy is still required in 'flagged' pathological samples. Despite the poor analytical performance on pathological samples, the images on the screen can be used for interpretation without the microscope and can be stored as PDF-documents for archiving the results.

Changes to perceptions of the pros and cons of genetic susceptibility testing after APOE genotyping for Alzheimer disease risk. Purpose Perceptions about the pros and cons of genetic susceptibility testing are among the best predictors of test utilization. How actual testing changes such perceptions has yet to be examined. Methods In a clinical trial, first-degree relatives of patients with Alzheimer disease received genetic risk assessments for Alzheimer disease including APOE disclosure. Participants rated 11 possible benefits associated with genetic testing pros and 10 risks or limitations cons before genetic risk disclosure and again 12 months afterward.

Results Pros were rated higher than cons at baseline 3. Among specific pros and cons , three items related to prevention and treatment changed the most. Conclusion The process of APOE genetic risk assessment for Alzheimer disease sensitizes some to its limitations and the risks of discrimination; however, 1-year after disclosure, test recipients still consider the pros to strongly outweigh the cons. I have been asked to comment on the pro and con opinions regarding high-volume plasma exchange.

The authors of both positions have provided cogent arguments and a reasonable approach to choosing the exchange volume for any given therapeutic plasma exchange.

The major issue of relevance in this discussion is the nature of the toxins targeted for removal. These parameters include molecular weight, the apparent volume of distribution, the degree of protein binding, the biologic and chemical half-life, and the severity and rapidity of its toxicity. The pros and cons about the digital recording of Intangible Cultural Heritage and some strategies. Intangible Cultural Heritage referred to as ICH , whose fundamental nature different from the tangible cultural heritage is "Intangible", and the related physical presence of the heritage is not the core content.

Digital means have irreplaceable advantages in recording intangible and dynamic ICH resources, while it also needs flexible and rigorous recording means as a support, thus striving to maximize resources recording and protection. This article will focus on the pros and cons about the digital recording of ICH, and preliminarily discuss some strategies used in the process of recording.

Hable con Ella Talk to Her through the lens of gender. The theme of gender plasticity is a prominent motif in this film. However, underlying the narrative, there is also a perverse subtext that relies on rigidly binary gender stereotypes to define relationships between men and women. Soy-Based Therapeutic Baby Formulas: Testable Hypotheses Regarding the Pros and Cons. Soy-based infant formulas have been consumed in the United States since , and currently constitute a significant portion of the infant formula market.

There are efforts underway to generate genetically modified soybeans that produce therapeutic agents of interest with the intent to deliver those agents in a soy-based infant formula platform. The threefold purpose of this review article is to first discuss the pros and cons of soy-based infant formulas, then present testable hypotheses to discern the suitability of a soy platform for drug delivery in babies, and finally start a discussion to inform public policy on this important area of infant nutrition.

Lesbian in visibility in Italian Renaissance culture: Diana and other cases of donna con donna. Current conceptualizations of sexual identity in the West are not necessarily useful to an historian investigating "lesbianism" in the social history and visual representations of different periods. After an overview of Renaissance documents treating donna con donna relations which examines the potentially positive effects of condemnation and silence, the paper focuses on Diana, the goddess of chastity, who bathed with her nymphs as an exemplar of female bodies preserved for heterosexual, reproductive pleasures.

Yet the self-sufficiency and bodily contact sometimes represented in images of this secluded all-female gathering might suggest "deviant" responses from their viewers. For last one decade, scientists are working for developing nano anti-cancer drugs with claim of ideal ones due to their targeted chemotherapic nature. These drugs have many beneficial properties such as targeted drug delivery and gene therapy modalities with minimum side effects.

This article describes pros and cons and future perspectives of nano anti-cancer drugs. Efforts have been made to address importance, special features, toxicities general, blood identities, immune system and environmental and future perspectives of nano anti-cancer drugs. It was concluded that nano anti-cancer drugs may be magic bullet drugs for cancer treatment leading to bright future of the whole world.

To share or not to share? Expected pros and cons of data sharing in radiological research. The aims of this paper are to illustrate the trend towards data sharing, i. Expected pros include the potential for verification of original results with alternative or supplementary analyses including estimation of reproducibility , advancement of knowledge by providing new results by testing new hypotheses not explored by the original authors on pre-existing databases, larger scale analyses based on individual-patient data, enhanced multidisciplinary cooperation, reduced publication of false studies, improved clinical practice, and reduced cost and time for clinical research.

Expected cons are outlined as the risk that the original authors could not exploit the entire potential of the data they obtained, possible failures in patients' privacy protection, technical barriers such as the lack of standard formats, and possible data misinterpretation. Finally, open issues regarding data ownership, the role of individual patients, advocacy groups and funding institutions in decision making about sharing of data and images are discussed. Preparation of stimulus responsive multiple emulsions by membrane emulsification using con a as biochemical sensor.

The emulsions interface was functionalized with a biomolecule able to function as a receptor for a target compound. The interaction between the biomolecular receptor and target stimulus activated the release of bioactive molecules contained within the structured emulsion. A glucose sensitive emulsion was investigated as a model study case. Concanavalin A Con A was used as the biomolecular glucose sensor. Various physicochemical strategies for stimulus responsive materials formulation are available in literature, but the preparation of biomolecule-responsive emulsions has been explored for the first time in this paper.

The development of novel drug delivery systems requires advanced and highly precise techniques to obtain their particular properties and targeting requirements. The present study has proven the flexibility and suitability of membrane emulsification for the preparation of stable and functional multiple emulsions containing Con A as interfacial biomolecular receptor able to activate the release of a bioactive molecule as a consequence of interaction with the glucose target molecule.

The influence of emulsion interfacial composition and membrane emulsification operating conditions on droplets stability and functional properties have been investigated. The release of the bioactive molecule as a function of glucose stimulus and its concentration has been demonstrated. Uso de Sustancias en Mujeres con Desventaja Social: Objetivo Describir el uso de sustancias en mujeres con desventaja social e identificar factores de riesgo de contagio de VIH, asociados a este consumo. Establishing confidence in the output of qualitative research synthesis: The importance of findings derived from syntheses of qualitative research has been increasingly acknowledged.

Findings that arise from qualitative syntheses inform questions of practice and policy in their own right and are commonly used to complement findings from quantitative research syntheses. The GRADE approach has been widely adopted by international organisations to rate the quality and confidence of the findings of quantitative systematic reviews. To date, there has been no widely accepted corresponding approach to assist health care professionals and policy makers in establishing confidence in the synthesised findings of qualitative systematic reviews.

A methodological group was formed develop a process to assess the confidence in synthesised qualitative research findings and develop a Summary of Findings tables for meta-aggregative qualitative systematic reviews. Dependability and credibility are two elements considered by the methodological group to influence the confidence of qualitative synthesised findings. A set of critical appraisal questions are proposed to establish dependability, whilst credibility can be ranked according to the goodness of fit between the author's interpretation and the original data.

By following the processes outlined in this article, an overall ranking can be assigned to rate the confidence of synthesised qualitative findings, a system we have labelled Con Qual. The development and use of the Con Qual approach will assist users of qualitative systematic reviews to establish confidence in the evidence produced in these types of reviews and can serve as a practical tool to assist in decision making.

Quick fix or long-term cure? Pros and cons of bariatric surgery. The past decade has seen an enormous increase in the number of bariatric, or weight loss, operations performed. This trend is likely to continue, mirroring the epidemic of obesity around the world and its rising prevalence among children.

Bariatric surgery is considered by many to be the most effective treatment for obesity in terms of maintenance of long-term weight loss and improvement in obesity-related comorbid conditions. Although overly simplified, the primary mechanisms of the surgical interventions currently utilized to treat obesity are the creation of a restrictive or malabsorptive bowel anatomy. Operations based on these mechanisms include the laparoscopic adjustable gastric band and laparoscopic vertical sleeve gastrectomy considered primarily restrictive operations , the laparoscopic biliopancreatic diversion with or without a duodenal switch primarily malabsorptive operation , and the laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass considered a combination restrictive and selective malabsorptive procedure.

Each operation has pros and cons. Important considerations, for the patient and surgeon alike, in the decision to proceed with bariatric surgery include the technical aspects of the operation, postoperative complications including long-term nutritional problems, magnitude of initial and sustained weight loss desired, and correction of obesity-related comorbidities. Herein, the pros and cons of the contemporary laparoscopic bariatric operations are reviewed and ongoing controversies relating to bariatric surgery are discussed: Main Outcome Measure s Content analysis of responses obtained during a decisional balance exercise pros and cons promoting CT and NGC screening was conducted.

Cue-based assertion classification for Swedish clinical text — developing a lexicon for py Con TextSwe. Objective The ability of a cue-based system to accurately assert whether a disorder is affirmed, negated, or uncertain is dependent, in part, on its cue lexicon. Methods and material We integrated cues from four external lexicons, along with generated inflections and combinations. We used subsets of a clinical corpus in Swedish.

Results Following integration steps, we added cues to py Con TextSwe. We have created an extensive and useful assertion lexicon for Swedish clinical text, which could form a valuable resource for similar studies, and which is publicly available. A con -focal setup for micro-XRF experiments using diamond anvil cells. In this contribution we introduce an experimental setup to perform con -focal micro X-ray fluorescence measurements in situ in samples at high temperatures and pressures in diamond anvil cells DAC e.

The con -focal arrangement is used to suppress the background in X-ray fluorescence XRF spectra that stems from elastic and inelastic scattering of the diamond anvils. The probing volume is defined by the two foci and has a size of ca. Comparison of XRF spectra acquired with a usual detector collimator and spectra recorded with the detector capillary shows a strong suppression of XRF signal generated outside the probed volume, i. XRF from the gasket material and signal from elastic and Compton scattering by the diamond anvils.

The ratio of the Zr K-alpha fluorescence peak to the peak of the Compton scattering changes from 0. For a standard solution containing ca. Thus, the con -focal setup substantially improves the fluorescence to background ratio. This will result in higher sensitivities for dilute elements in the sample chamber of the DAC. Furthermore, the possibilities of interference of the sample's signal with signal from the sample environment are greatly reduced. In a broader sense, the setup can also be applied to other confined samples.

The Sub Cons webserver: A user friendly web interface for state-of-the-art subcellular localization prediction. Sub Cons is a recently developed method that predicts the subcellular localization of a protein. It combines predictions from four predictors using a Random Forest classifier. Here, we present the user-friendly web-interface implementation of Sub Cons. Starting from a protein sequence, the server rapidly predicts the subcellular localizations of an individual protein. In addition, the server accepts the submission of sets of proteins either by uploading the files or programmatically by using command line WSDL API scripts.

This makes Sub Cons ideal for proteome wide analyses allowing the user to scan a whole proteome in few days. From the web page, it is also possible to download precalculated predictions for several eukaryotic organisms. To evaluate the performance of Sub Cons we present a benchmark of LocTree3 and Sub Cons using two recent mass-spectrometry based datasets of mouse and drosophila proteins.

The server is available at http: Pros and cons of prognostic disclosure to Japanese cancer patients and their families from the family's point of view. The primary goals of this analysis were to explore the pros and cons of prognostic disclosure to patients and their families from the bereaved family's point of view. Semistructured interviews were conducted with 60 bereaved family members of patients with cancer in Japan. There were eight categories of influence related to the disclosure of prognosis to the family, including pros e.

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There were also nine categories of influence related to the disclosure of prognosis to patients e. Although prognostic disclosure to family members can contribute to psychological distress and hopelessness, at the same time, it has the potential to prepare them for the future both emotionally and practically, and also to make the time until the patient's death as meaningful as possible.

It is useful for physicians to introduce pros and cons of prognostic disclosure to family members at the time of decision making, to understand the family members' psychological state, and to provide support considering pros and cons whether or not they disclosed prognosis. Perceived pros and cons of smoking and quitting in hard-core smokers: Background In the last decade, so-called hard-core smokers have received increasing interest in research literature.

Therefore, this study aims to gain insight into the perceived pros and cons of smoking and quitting in hard-core smokers. Subsequently, each participant listed his or her main pros and cons in a questionnaire. We used a structural procedure to analyse the data obtained from the group interviews and from the questionnaires.

Results Using the qualitative data of both the questionnaires and the transcripts, the perceived pros and cons of smoking and smoking cessation were grouped into 6 main categories: Conclusions Although the perceived pros and cons of smoking in hard-core smokers largely mirror the perceived pros and cons of quitting, there are some major differences with respect to weight, social integration, health of children and stress reduction, that should be taken into account in clinical settings and when developing interventions. The new human papillomavirus HPV vaccine: The annual heath care cost for the treatment of cervical cancer and genital warts is estimated to be more than three billion dollars a year.

The new HPV vaccine has incredible potential to improve reproductive health promotion, reduce health care costs, and close health care disparity gaps. However, issues both for and against the new HPV vaccine, including mandating vaccination, high cost of the vaccine, the short duration of protection offered, and the perceived promotion of sexual activity, cause confusion. Pediatric nurses, including those in advanced practice, benefit by understanding the pros and cons of these issues in advocating for their patients.

What to consider when regulating electronic cigarettes: Pros, cons and unintended consequences. Many public health experts, medical research societies, large health organizations and policy makers have expressed concerns about the increased popularity of electronic cigarettes and have pushed for more restrictive measures ranging from complete bans to tight regulations of these products either as medicines or as tobacco products. But these concerns have never been adequately qualified nor quantified. Without judicious assessment and thorough evaluation, regulations may have unintended consequences that can do more damage than good in public health terms.

In this article, we will appraise the existing prominent regulatory frameworks for e-cigarettes, namely, general consumer product, medicinal product and tobacco product regulation, to highlight their pros and cons. Moreover, we provide concrete examples of the unintended consequences which may arise from inappropriate regulatory action. Is ACPA positivity the main driver for rheumatoid arthritis treatment?

Rheumatoid Arthritis RA is an autoimmune chronic disease that is characterized by the positivity of various antibodies, the most specific being autoantibodies against citrullinated antigens ACPA.

Moreover, ACPA status is associated with favorable response to biologics targeting pathways involving autoantibody producing cells as B lymphocytes. In the current review we have discussed the pros and cons on the available scientific evidences, regarding the diagnostic, prognostic and management implications of ACPAs in RA. Nest destruction elicits indiscriminate con - versus heterospecific brood parasitism in a captive bird.

Following nest destruction, the laying of physiologically committed eggs eggs that are ovulated, yolked, and making their way through the oviduct in the nests of other birds is considered a viable pathway for the evolution of obligate interspecific brood parasitism. While intraspecific brood parasitism in response to nest predation has been experimentally demonstrated, this pathway has yet to be evaluated in an interspecific context.

We studied patterns of egg laying following experimental nest destruction in captive zebra finches, Taeniopygia guttata, a frequent intraspecific brood parasite. We found that zebra finches laid physiologically committed eggs indiscriminately between nests containing conspecific eggs and nests containing heterospecific eggs of Bengalese finches, Lonchura striata vars.

This is the first experimental evidence that nest destruction may provide a pathway for the evolution of interspecific brood parasitism in birds. Pros and cons of healthcare information technology implementation: Countless studies and investigations have been performed siding either for or against the implementation of technology in the healthcare setting. This article presents both sides of this debate, with an obvious conclusion that the pros of this debate win. The practice of information technology in the medical domain lags behind its knowledge and discovery by at least 7 years. The key to closing this gap is to show, through various studies, how information technology systems provide decision support to users at the point in time when decisions are needed.

What the reader will obtain from this article is that the pros for information technology implementation in healthcare settings weigh much more and have a greater effect than the cons. Algunos de estos cuestionamientos son: Self-efficacy, pros, and cons as variables associated with adjacent stages of change for regular exercise in Japanese college students. This study examined self-efficacy confidence to exercise , pros exercise's advantages , and cons exercise's disadvantages as variables associated across the transtheoretical model's six stages of change in Japanese college students.

A series of logistic regression analyses were conducted. Results showed that higher pros and lower cons were associated with being in contemplation compared to precontemplation. Lower cons were associated with being in preparation compared to contemplation. Higher self-efficacy was associated with being in action compared to preparation as well as being in maintenance compared to action. Lower cons were associated with being in termination compared to maintenance. The Alps and their population are particularly vulnerable to geomorphological and hydrological hazards and this problem might be amplified by ongoing climate change.

Natural disasters cause severe monetary damage which often leads to the difficult question whether it socially pays to protect settlements at high costs or whether alternatively settlement areas should better be abandoned. These questions will be tackled in an interdisciplinary cooperation between geography, economics and normative theory philosophy.

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