Dreams, fairy tales, animals, and cars
Abstract With growing interest in qualitative research beyond its popular use in focus groups, a greater appreciation of the potential of projective techniques is recommended. E...
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Association of Intensive Blood Pressure Control and Kidney Disease Progression in Nondiabetic Patients With Chronic Kidney Disease
Targeting BP below the current standard did not provide additional benefit for renal outcomes compared with standard treatment during a follow-up of 3.3 years in patients with C...
Frequency of regulatory T cells in peripheral blood and in tumour‐infiltrating lymphocytes correlates with poor prognosis in renal cell carcinoma
What’s known on the subject? and What does the study add? Treg overexpression has been demonstrated in several neoplasms, including liver, breast, pancreas and melanoma, while i...
Prevalence of Complications Among Second-Generation Japanese-American Men With Diabetes, Impaired Glucose Tolerance, or Normal Glucose Tolerance
In a study sample of 229 second-generation Japanese- American (Nisei) men, 79 with normal glucose tolerance, 72 with impaired glucose tolerance (IGT), and 78 with non-insulin-de...
Obtaining information accurately and quickly: are structured abstracts more efficient?
BACKGROUND: Structured abstracts - which, like the present one, contain several subheadings - have replaced traditional abstracts in most medical journals. Evaluation studies ha...
Facilitation of Infection of Monkey Cells with Poliovirus "Ribonucleic Acid"
The plaque titer of poliovirus "ribonucleic acid" on monkey kidney cells cultured in vitro is greatly increased by depleting these cells of calcium and treating the "ribonucleic...
Reduction of plastocyanin with O2- and superoxide dismutase-dependent oxidation of plastocyanin by H2O2
Type I copper proteins, plastocyanin and rice blue protein, were reduced with O2 (-). The reduction rate constants of plastocyanins from several sources with O2 (-) are about 10...
African American patient knowledge of kidney disease: A qualitative study of those with advanced chronic kidney disease
Kidney disease is a costly and prevalent condition that affects African Americans more than any other group. The purpose of this study was to determine the knowledge of kidney d...
Decentralized spacing control of a string of multiple vehicles over lossy datalinks
Aircraft formation flying and highway vehicle platooning are examples of spacing control of multiple vehicles. To achieve string stability with a linear static controller, state...
Corticosteroid-binding Globulin In Fetal And Adult Sheep
The binding of triiodothyronine by Rana catesbeiana tadpole tail fin, tail muscle, kidney, and liver cytosol was studied using dextran-coated charcoal to separate bound and free...