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Few studies have examined the ability of individuals with learning disabilities, in general, or with Down syndrome, specifically, to discriminate speech. The purpose of this study was compare the speech discrimination abilities of eight children with Down syndrome (aged 5.7 to 12.8 years) to seven nonverbal mental-age…

BACKGROUND: The prevalence of overweight among Japanese children and adolescents has steadily increased during the last 20 years. Thus, we utilized the 1978-1981 data collected by the Japanese Ministry of International Trade and Industry to construct reference curves of body mass index (BMI) for contemporary Japanese c…

In 1993 a territory-wide cross-sectional growth survey on 25,000 Chinese children from birth to 18 years was performed in Hong Kong. Compared to the last growth survey in 1963, definite secular changes were observed. There was an increase of final adult standing height of 3.6 cm in boys and 2.7 cm in girls, in which 1.…

During the last 3 years 20 patients (median age 8 years) have undergone construction of a continent urinary reservoir at our pediatric urology service. Of the patients 12 had failed exstrophy reconstruction, 7 had myelodysplasia with a neurogenic bladder and 1 had extensive bladder damage as a result of a previous oper…

BACKGROUND: Myasthenia gravis is the most common disease affecting the neuromuscular junction. The most common etiology among patients with juvenile myasthenia gravis is the production of antibodies against the acetylcholine receptor. However, the clinical outcome in relation to serum levels of anti-acetylcholine recep…

Conventional varicocelectomy is often complicated by high recurrence rate, ranging from 6 to 25% and the persistence usually is due to residual venous communications. We report our experience of 21 years in varicocele correction using 3 different operative techniques on 389 adolescents. In the first 12 years (120 patie…

In the last years, the need for new efficient video compression methods grown rapidly as frame resolution has increased dramatically. The Joint Collaborative Team on Video Coding (JCT-VC) effort produced in 2013 the H.265/High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard, which represents the state of the art in video codin…

BACKGROUND: Outbreaks ofpneumonia (PCP) in kidney transplant recipients are frequently reported worldwide. However, the general guidelines propose only short-term prophylaxis with trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole after kidney transplantation. We experienced 3 PCP outbreaks in the last 10 years despite providing the recomm…

The revealing of benign neoplasms of various organs of alimentary system according to the data of Central Institute of gastroenterology during last 7 years was increased from 449 up to 1040 cases per year. The revealing of malignant neoplasms was kept at a same level (about 120 cases per year). The average revealing wa…

Anorexia nervosa is regarded as a serious mental disturbance, where denial of illness and strong resistance to treatment are symptomatic features. In many cases it leads to extreme devastation or even to death. Effective treatment of this disorder still remains a challenge for clinicians and researchers. Since the 90-i…

The fast and progressive growth of the biotechnology and pharmaceutical fields forces the development of new and powerful sensing techniques for process optimization and detection of biomolecules at very low concentrations. During the last years, the simplest MEMS structures, i.e. microcantilevers, have become an emerg…

BACKGROUND: Most published reviews concerning the endoscopic treatment of gastro-oesophageal reflux disease date back to 2005. AIM: To provide an updated review that includes all papers published up to 2007. METHODS: A Medline search from January 2005 to June 2007 was performed regarding endoscopic procedures aiming…

OBJECTIVE: To inspect and describe the results of tracheotomies carried out at our ENT Department and to assess changes in indications over the last few decades. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Retrospective study of 13 patients, aged 3 months to 14 years, admitted by the ENT Department to the Paediatric ICU at Puerta del Mar U…

Central to the successful surgically treatment numerous liver diseases is the ability of the organ to regenerate. The understanding of the process of self-renewal has both changed and progressed over the last few decades. For many years, the assumption was that the liver regenerates primarily through the division of ma…

Despite its long history, the cloning of animals by nuclear transplantation is going through a "renaissance" after the birth of Dolly. The amount of work and achievements obtained in the last seven years are probably greater than those obtained in half a century of research. However, the principal obstacles outlined ye…

To evaluate the clinical effects of 5-fluorouracil in different mass concentrations combined with triamcinolone in the treatment of keloids.From March 2018 to March 2019, 29 patients with 31 keloids receipted in the Department of Plastic Surgery of Fujian Medical University Union Hospital, 11 patients with 20 keloids r…

Understanding the redistribution of soil organic carbon (OC) driven by erosion contributes to the global carbon budget and watershed management. Quantifying the sources of eroded OC in sediments provides new insights to addressing this issue. However, limited quantitative information on the factors influencing OC sourc…

Affective disorders and impulsivity are quite common when using anabolic substances, in this case-study one of the rather rare cases of a psychotic disorder following the abuse of androgenic steroids is described. A 30-year old formerly healthy white male was admitted as inpatient to psychiatric hospital showing sympto…

Oceans cover more than two-thirds of our blue planet. The waters move in a global circulation system, driven by subtle density differences and transporting huge amounts of heat. Ocean circulation is thus an active and highly nonlinear player in the global climate game. Increasingly clear evidence implicates ocean circu…

Embolization using IDC was carried out for 33 aneurysm cases in the last 3 years. The indication for the embolization was that the direct surgery was considered to be difficult, because of 1) technically impossible to do clipping, 2) aneurysm of the posterior fossa, 3) reject of patients. Regarding the location of aneu…