We conducted a study to evaluate efficacy and safety of dimeticone 4%, a lotion with no conventional insecticide activity, to cure lice infection and to prevent spread of infestation/reinfestation by prophylaxis of classmates.The study is carried out between April 2008 and June 2008 in Petranova International Institute in Rome.A total of 131 childr
Intercritical heat treatments attempts were made to enhance the mechanical properties of reinforcing steel bars milled from scrap metal.For this, two grades of steel bars were obtained from different steel mills 27” Double Wall Oven and their mechanical properties that include hardness, ultimate tensile strength, and percent elongation before and
Abstract Background In many microbial genomes, a strong preference for a small number of codons can be observed in genes whose products are needed by the cell in large quantities.This codon usage bias (CUB) improves translational accuracy and speed and is one of several factors optimizing cell growth.Whereas CUB and the overrepresentation of indivi
Diagnosis of dementia is a challenge in populations with heterogeneous educational background.OBJECTIVE: To compare the accuracies of two delayed recall tests for the diagnosis of dementia in a community with high proportion of illiterates.METHOD: The delayed recall of a word list from the CERAD battery (DR-CERAD) was compared with the delayed reca