BACKGROUND: Ingestion of contaminated water or food is a major contributor to childhood diarrhea in developing countries.In Vietnam, the use of community-based information, education and Amiami communication (IEC) activities could be a sustainable strategy to improve food hygiene and food safety behaviors.This study thus examined the long-term impa
Soft-Tip Stylet and Saline Instillation Technique: Making Difficult Percutaneous CT-Guided Biopsies Possible
Finding a safe needle path during percutaneous computed Wafers tomography-guided biopsy is sometimes difficult due to concern for injuring a vital structure.Saline instillation technique has been used to displace the structure out of the way.Another useful tool is a soft-tip stylet.A soft-tip also referred as blunt-tip stylet for the introducer can
Influence of Different Water Depths on Gas Jet of Underwater Scarfed Nozzle
Thrust vector control by scarfed nozzle jet can realize attitude control and trajectory adjustment of the undersea vehicle and improve the maneuvering performance and stability of the undersea vehicle.In order to investigate the working state of the underwater scarfed nozzle, the Reynolds time-averaged Navier-Stokes(RANS) method and the volume of f
All-synchronized picosecond pulses and time-gated detection improve the spatial resolution of two-photon STED microscopy in brain tissue imaging
Super-resolution in two-photon excitation (2PE) microscopy offers new approaches for visualizing the deep inside the brain functions at the nanoscale.In this study, we developed a novel 2PE stimulated-emission-depletion (STED) microscope with all-synchronized picosecond pulse light sources and time-gated fluorescence detection, namely, all-pulsed 2
Are the healthy behaviors of US high-deductible health plan enrollees driven by people who chose these plans? Smoking as a case study.
To determine whether negative associations between enrollment P01 in a high-deductible health plan (HDHP) and one exemplar unhealthy behavior--daily smoking--are found only among people who chose these plans.Cross-sectional analysis of nationally-representative data.United States from 2007 to 2008.6,941 privately insured non-elderly adult participa