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Gender Medicine, 2006

Objectives: to estimate the prevalence of the MS among adult patients appointed to our primary ca... more Objectives: to estimate the prevalence of the MS among adult patients appointed to our primary care health center. Determine the prevalence of the risk factors in MS's patients by gender. Method: Transversal descriptive study. Randomized simple sample in each group ...

Environmental Earth Sciences, 2014

Marine oil spills can be highly dangerous given that the wind, waves and currents can scatter an ... more Marine oil spills can be highly dangerous given that the wind, waves and currents can scatter an oil spill over a wide area within just a few hours in the open sea. Remote sensing can effectively be used for detecting and monitoring of oil spills. Optical sensors provide important information for oil spill contingency planning. Remote sensing techniques have contributed a great extent to the development of oil pollution monitoring systems. However, the available detection methods, mainly designed for spaceborne and airborne long-distance inspection, are too expensive and complex to be used in an operational way by relatively unskilled personnel. In the framework of DEO-SOM project (European AMPERA project), an innovative water inspection method was investigated, based on the analysis of suspicious water samples in laboratory using the spectral fluorescent signature (SFS) technique. The SFS technique is based on the fluorescence properties of the oil compounds. Different oil products were analyzed in the laboratory, using eight LED light sources with wavelengths ranging from 270 to 850 nm to excite the samples and a USB4000-FL fluorescence spectrometer to register the fluorescence spectra. Finally, an algorithm to identify oil products in polluted water samples with known substances was developed. The mean of the 16 replicas was calculated for each point and used to calculate the Euclidean distance with respect to a known sample constituted by distilled water and single oil. Finally, the percentage of similarity referred to every oil was determined.

Environmental earth sciences

ABSTRACT The objective of this work is to evaluate the effects of ultrasound waves on the viabili... more ABSTRACT The objective of this work is to evaluate the effects of ultrasound waves on the viability of bacteria that usually occur in mineral waters such as spa thermal waters. The study was carried out at a constant temperature of 309.65 K on two Gram-positive bacteria (Staphylococcus epidermidis, Staphylococcus warneri) and two Gram-negative bacteria (Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Proteus mirabilis) with a concentration of 106 CFU mL-1. A commercial ultrasonic bath was used. The effects of the ultrasounds were analysed using a microcalorimetric technique. The microcalorimetric bacterial growth curves were obtained and, stemming from said curves, the heat released by microorganisms during a culture time of 24 h was calculated. The values of the heat released in the samples treated and untreated with ultrasounds were compared. The ultrasound treatment appears to be effective in inhibiting the growth of the two Gram-positive bacteria, but not in the case of the Gram-negative, which presented greater resistance at the same experimental conditions. This study also shows microcalorimetry as an efficient technique to determine the effect of ultrasound waves on bacterial growth.

Comunicación, Lenguaje y Educación, 1991

Page 1. Cognición, contexto y enseñanza de las matemáticas Carmen Gómez El 57 por ciento de los n... more Page 1. Cognición, contexto y enseñanza de las matemáticas Carmen Gómez El 57 por ciento de los niños españoles no alcanzan los conocimientos matemáticos escolarmente exigidos y no parecen contar con una alfabetización ...

Gynecologic Oncology, 1998

From 1965 to 1995, at the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Medical Center, 1223 patients with... more From 1965 to 1995, at the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Medical Center, 1223 patients with stage IA2, IB, or IIA cervical cancer have undergone a radical hysterectomy. The charts of these patients were reviewed retrospectively for pathology reports showing positive or close surgical margins. Fifty-one of these cases had final pathology results interpreted as close vaginal margins (CVM), which we define as tumor less than or equal to 0.5 cm from the vaginal margins of resection. All slides of blocks with close vaginal margins were found and reviewed by a single pathologist. Twenty-eight (54.9%) had parametrial involvement or positive lymph nodes and received adjuvant radiation therapy (RT). Of the remaining 23 cases, only 6 had other high risk factors, tumor greater than 4 cm, poorly differentiated, greater than 50% invasion, or lymphovascular space involvement. Sixteen of 23 received radiation. The 5-year survival was significantly greater with RT, 81.3%, than without RT, 28.6% (P< 0.05). The recurrence rate was also decreased from 85.7 to 12.5% (P< 0.01). Although present in less than 2% of radical hysterectomy specimens, CVM without other high risk factors may be an important prognostic variable that should be considered when making adjuvant therapy decisions.

MLN, 2010

... Milena Milani's La ragazza di nome Giulio: A Forgotten Feminist Novel. Carmen Gomez Univ... more ... Milena Milani's La ragazza di nome Giulio: A Forgotten Feminist Novel. Carmen Gomez University of California, Los Angeles. ... Così lo aprii, e spinta da una furia che mi atterriva, ma che mi portava avanti a fare qualcosa di definitivo, presi a vibrare all'impazzata ... Patricia White. ...

Meta: Journal des traducteurs, 2000

Journal of Neurochemistry, 1993

The choline analogue ethylcholine mustard aziridinium (AF64A) is a potent and irreversible inhibi... more The choline analogue ethylcholine mustard aziridinium (AF64A) is a potent and irreversible inhibitor of choline uptake in brain synaptosomes and is used as a neurotoxin to produce animal models of cholinergic hypofunction. However, previous studies have shown that intraocular administration of AF64A in rats not only reduced the number of cholinergic neurons in the retina, but also induced ultrastructural alterations in the microvasculature.

Gynecologic Oncology, 2006

High-grade endometrial stromal sarcoma (HGES) is an aggressive disease with dismal prognosis. Sur... more High-grade endometrial stromal sarcoma (HGES) is an aggressive disease with dismal prognosis. Surgery is the standard treatment, and radiotherapy seems to reduce local relapse. No other treatment has proved to be useful in the case of non-resectable diseases. A 41-year-old woman suffering HGES, with positive staining for CD117 (c-kit) and large abdominal and retroperitoneal mass progressing after chemotherapy, was treated with Imatinib Mesylate. After 3 months, objective response was documented and radical surgery performed. Two years after surgical intervention, she is currently free of the disease. The response seen with Imatinib should be further investigated in a larger number of cases.

Transplantation, 1996

Skip Navigation Links Home &amp;amp;amp;gt; October 27, 1996 - Volume 62 - Issue 8 &a... more Skip Navigation Links Home &amp;amp;amp;gt; October 27, 1996 - Volume 62 - Issue 8 &amp;amp;amp;gt; An Assessment of the Effects of Cadaver Donor Bone Marrow on... ... 1 This work was supported by Miami Veterans Administration Hospital Research Support, NIH grant R01DK25243-15, and Fujisawa USA.

Addiction Biology, 2008

Bupropion, administered alone or combined with nicotine, is presently used to treat nicotine depe... more Bupropion, administered alone or combined with nicotine, is presently used to treat nicotine dependence. Despite experimental evidence of the complex behavioral actions of this drug, there have been little data reported about its effects on social behavior. Our main aim was to investigate the effects of acute administration of bupropion, alone or plus nicotine, on social interaction in mice. OF1 group-housed male mice were confronted in a neutral cage with an anosmic opponent during a 10 minutes encounter. Time allocated to body care and digging was reduced by administration of bupropion (40 mg/kg) both when administered alone and with nicotine (1 and 0.5 mg/kg). The lowest dose of bupropion (10 mg/kg) also reduced digging when combined with 1 mg/kg of nicotine. Time spent on non-social exploration and exploration from a distance was significantly higher in mice treated with bupropion (40 mg/kg) alone or combined with nicotine (1 and 0.5 mg/kg). The lowest dose of bupropion (10 mg/kg) increased non-social exploration when combined with 0.5 mg/kg of nicotine and exploration from a distance when combined with 1 mg/kg of nicotine. Ethopharmacological assessment of the behavior of groups of mice treated with different combinations of the two drugs indicates that nicotine can potentiate some of the behavioral effects of low doses of bupropion. Results also indicate that bupropion, either alone or combined with nicotine, has no significant effects on social investigation, suggesting that this drug does not induce a clear anxiolytic profile in OF1 mice.