Background.It has been suggested that contrast sensitivity can provide valuable information about visual function in addition to visual acuity assessment.Some patients retain relatively good visual acuity, yet complain of poor vision.In these patients, other tests of visual function such as contrast sensitivity should be evaluated.Methods.We examin
Buddhist-derived interventions have increasingly been employed in the treatment of a range of physical and psychological disorders, and in recent years, there has been significant growth in the use of mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) for this purpose.Ontological Addiction Theory (OAT) is a novel metaphysical approach to understanding psychopa
Phosphorus Lip Pencil (P) is one of the most important elements used in fertilizing soils in tropical regions due to the low efficiency of phosphate fertilization.This work aimed to fractionate inorganic P (Pi) in tropical soils of different mineralogical compositions and to relate these fractions with their respective phosphate buffer capacity (PB
ABSTRACT Vibrio cholerae has two chromosomes (chrI and chrII) whose replication and segregation are under different genetic controls.The region covering the replication origin of chrI resembles that of the Escherichia coli chromosome, and both origins are under control of the highly conserved initiator, DnaA.The origin region of chrII resembles tha
Abstract Background Paraoxonase-1 (PON1) is an antioxidant enzyme that attenuates the production of the monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 (MCP-1) in vitro.Although oxidation and inflammation are closely related processes, the association between PON1 and MCP-1 has not been completely characterised due, probably, to that the current use of syntheti