Developing turns-amplitude clouds for healthy Chinese: reference values and influence factors / 中华神经科杂志

Objective To establish the reference values and evaluate influence factors of turns-amplitude clouds for healthy Chinese.Methods We recruited 59 healthy subjects From July 2017 to December 2017 in Nanfang Hospital,Southern Medical University,including 34 males and 25 females,who were divided into young group (15-39 years old),middle-aged group (40-64 years old) and the elderly group (over 65 years),respectively.The number of turns (NT) and mean amplitude (MA) normative data of sternocleidomastoid muscle,deltoid muscle,biceps brachii muscle,extensor digitorum muscle,abductor digiti minimi muscle,quadriceps femoris muscle,tibialis anterior muscle,and gastrocnemius muscle were obtained by using concentric needle electrodes.A total of 20-30 records were collected from each muscle in different degree of contraction.A linear regression of lg(MA-100) versus lgNT was made and the slope,intercept,the 95％ confidence interval of intercept,the largest MA and largest NT were calculated for each muscle.The influence factors,such as gender,age,muscles,and dominant limbs on the shape of cloud were evaluated by using the Chow breakpoint test.Results Normal turns-amplitude clouds were obtained and presented in this article.Muscle and age were found to be the main influence factors affecting the shape of cloud,and gender may affect some clouds,while the dominant limbs had little influence on the shape of the cloud.Conclusion The reference values of turns-amplitude cloud based on muscle,gender and age are of practical significance in clinic.

The Ibalois of Benguet as active agents in health negotiations

@#<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>BACKGROUND:</strong> The Ibalois in La Trinidad, Benguet are witnesses to health negotiations that had been subjected to historical and material change.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>OBJECTIVE:</b> To present indicators of resistance - the struggles, apparent ambivalence, and aspirations of the Ibaloi people in relation to health negotiations, as indicative of their being active agents in confronting change. Its ultimate objective was to show how the Ibalois have managed to not allow themselves to be subjected to the biological reductionism of "medical gaze" as they assert the value of a number of traditional health and cultural practices amidst historical and material change.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>METHODOLOGY:</strong> A case study research design with Key Informants Interview (KII) as data collection technique was used as design for the study. To collect data, fifteen key informants were interviewed, eight from the folk medical sector and seven from the professional medical sector. Emic viewpoint was used in the presentation of data to analyze cultural phenomena from the perspective of one who participates in the culture being studied. Data from the folk medical sector were triangulated with data coming from local and international studies and with reports coming from the professional health sector: records from barangay and provincial health clinics managed by nurses and midwives as well as data coming from a local tertiary hospital and a national media news coverage.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>RESULTS: </strong>The struggles of the Ibalois are acts of resistance as they confront both traditional health practice or change. Their ambivalent emotions manifest creative responses to the diurnal or apparently humdrum occurrences that they encounter. Their aspirations indicate their hope and constant desire for a better future, and particular to this study, better health conditions. Indeed, health negotiations in Barangay Bahong, La Trinidad, Benguet and the continued relevance given to the mambonong are not indicative of a petrified indigenous.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>CONCLUSION:</strong> Amidst the various historic turns and power shifts in the Cordillera region, the Ibalois have portrayed themselves as human agents, not just as one objective force in society - who define their culture (i.e. health practices) themselves in as much as this gives meaning and relevance to their lives. </p>

The 3D CFD study of gliding swimmer on passive hydrodynamics drag

The aim of this study was to analyze the effect of depth on the hydrodynamic drag coefficient during the passive underwater gliding after the starts and turns. The swimmer hydrodynamics performance was studied by the application of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) method. The steady-state CFD simulations were performed by the application of k - omega turbulent model and volume of fluid method to obtain two-phase flow around a three-dimensional swimmer model when gliding near water surface and at different depths from the water surface. The simulations were conducted for four different swimming pool size, each with different depth, i.e., 1.0, 1.5, 2.0 and 3.0 m for three different velocities, i.e., 1.5, 2.0 and 2.5 m/s, with swimmer gliding at different depths with intervals of 0.25 m, each starting from the water surface, respectively. The numerical results of pressure drag and total coefficients at individual average race velocities were obtained. The results showed that the drag coefficient decreased as depth increased, with a trend toward reduced fluctuation after 0.5m depth from the water surface. The selection of the appropriate depth during the gliding phase should be a main concern of swimmers and coaches.

To discuss clinical speciality training in turns for specialization postgraduates / 中华医学教育探索杂志

Through approaching the mixed ability training of clinical post-graduates, the following conclusions were drawn: necessity to take turns in the clinical specialties, establishment of its program, the details and contents were pointed out, meanwhile, it is necessary to guarantee progression of the plan and its training effects, and to improve the cultivation quality.

The clinical curative effect about fog turns to inhale Chuan Le Ning to cure the child′s asthma / 中国实用护理杂志

Objective Inquiring into the clinical curative effect about fog turns to inhale Chuan Le Ning to cure the child′s asthma. Methods Stochastically to divide the 79 examples of acute asthmas into the observation groups(44 examples) with the contrast(35 examples).Two all go the normal regulations for breathe heavily,the ant-infection and handle to the disease.The observation group atomizes to breathe Chuan Le Ning in the foundation. Results FVC,FEV and PEF numbers show the remarkable improvement before the treatment(P

Clinical Characteristics of Duane's Retraction Syndrome

In this study, we reviewed 46 consecutive patients with diagnosis of Duane's retraction syndrome at the Seoul National University Hospital from April, 1987 to October, 1995. The following characteristics were reviewed - sex, laterality, clinical type, primary position alignment, anomalous vertical movements, head turn, fusion and amblyopia. The incidence in each sex showed no difference(male: 54%, female:46%). Ninety-six percent of cases had a unilateral manifestation and 4% of cases had bilaterality. The left eyes were involved in 70% of cases and the right eyes in the 26% of cases. Type I was the most common type(96%) and the esodeviations were the most frequent in primary position. Head turns were observed in 77% of cases and the direction of head turns were toward the involved eyes in esodeviations, and away from the involved eyes in exodeviations regardless of the clinical types. Among 26 patients who underwent the fusion test, seventeen patients(65%) had fusion and that was more common in patients with exodeviation(83%) than others.

Stereochemical studies on cyclic peptides: Detailed energy minimization studies on hydrogen bonded all-trans cyclic pentapeptide backbones.

Conformational studies have been carried out on hydrogenbonded all-trans cyclic pentapeptide backbone· Application of a combination of grid search and energy minimization on this system has resulted in obtaining 23 minimum energy conformations, which are characterized by unique patterns of hydrogen bonding comprising of ßand γ-turns. A study of the minimum energy conformations vis-a-vis non-planar deviation of the peptide units reveals that non-planarity is an inherent feature in many cases· A study on conformational clustering of minimum energy conformations shows that the minimum energy conformations fall into 6 distinct conformational families· Preliminary comparison with available X-ray structures of cyclic pentapeptide indicates that only some of the minimum energy conformations have formed crystal structures· The set of minimum energy conformations worked out in the present study can form a consolidated database of prototypes for hydrogen bonded backbone and be useful for modelling cyclic pentapeptides both synthetic and bioactive in nature·

Quantitative Turns/Amplitude Analysis of Interference Pattern in Neuromuscular Diseases

The present study was designed to evaluate the diagnostic efficacy and the clinical usefulness of quantitative analysis of interf erence pattern in differentiating the neuromuscular diseases. To obtain the normal control value, the automatic turns/amplitude analysis of interference pattern in biceps brachii and tibialis anterior muscle was done in 30 healthy normal subjects. The same procedure was performed in 16 patients with myopathy and 14 neuropathy to determine the diagnostic sensitivity of this method. Original pairs of turns/amplitude data obtained from controls converted into the logarithmic scale and linear regression equation, were calculated. Boundary of normal cloud was defined by the + 2 S. D. lines, maximum turn and amplitude. The result was considered abnormal if two or more turns/amplitude values were outside the zone normal cloud. The values of myopathic patients shifted toward the right lower quadrant meaning high turns and small amplitudes, but those of neuropathic patients shifted toward the left upper quadrant meaning few turns and large amplitudes. In all subjects of each patient group, at least two turns/amplitude values were outside the zone of normal cloud. In addition, the sequential changes of mean turns/amplitude ratio were well correlated with the disease activity. These results suggest that this method of automatic turns/amplitude analysis could be used not only as a supplementary diagnostic tool in differentiating the neuromuscular disorders, but also a parameter of monitoring the disease activity.

Prediction and comparison of the secondary structure of legume lectins.

Secondary structure prediction for the 4 legume lectins: Concanavalin A, soybean agglutinin, favabean lectin and lentil lectin, was done by the method of Chou and Fasman. This prediction shows that these four lectins fall into a structurally distinct class of proteins, containing high amounts of β-sheet and β-turns. There is a notable similarity in the gross structure of these proteins; all four of them contain about 40–50% of β-sheet, 35–45 % β-turn and 0–10% of α-helix. When the secondary structure of corresponding residues in each pair of these lectins was compared, there was a striking similarity in the Concanavalin A-soybean agglutinin and favabean lectin-lentil lectin pairs, and considerably less similarity in the other pairs, suggesting that these legume lectins have probably evolved in a divergent manner from a common ancestor. A comparison of the predicted potential β-turn sites also supports the hypothesis of divergent evolution in this class of lectins.