In this introduction the coordinators of the First Congress of Postcolonial Studies (Buenos Aires, 5th, 6th, 7th December 2012) review some Console and Display Board of the main questions and guidelines which characterized the workshops.Starting from a heated debate on the categories and the epistemological proposals developed by postcolonial studi
Introduction and objectives A number of preclinical evaluations of stroke treatment with herbal medicine (HM) have been reported.The aim of the current review was to highlight the pathophysiology of stroke and review the pre-clinically identified molecular mechanisms of HM treatment.Material and Methods Only 32 articles published in the English lan
Abstract Background The Winches and Towing purpose of this study was to analyze if the use of texture analysis on spectral detector CT (SDCT)-derived iodine maps (IM) in addition to conventional images (CI) improves lung nodule differentiation, when being applied to a k-nearest neighbor (KNN) classifier.Methods 183 cancer patients who underwent con
Antoni Sicras-Mainar,1 Javier Rejas-Gutiérrez,2 Ruth Navarro-Artieda3 1Planning Directorate, Badalona Serveis Assistencials SA, Badalona, Barcelona, Spain; 2Department of Health Economics and Outcomes Research, copyright SLU, Alcobendas, Madrid, Spain; 3Medical Documentation, Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol, SPICES Badalona, Barcelona, Spain
Objective: The aim of this study was to explain fruit and vegetable consumption behavior through application of the multi-theory Creatine model (MTM) of health behavior change among African American women in Mississippi, USA.Methods: This study utilized a cross sectional design.A 39-item face and content valid questionnaire based on MTM was complet