Background: Many of the assessment tools used to study depression among older people are adaptations of instruments developed in other cultural setting. There is a need to validate those instruments in low and middle income ...

The purpose of this clinical study was to investigate if periodontal disease and rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are associated. The study included 39 RA patients (test group) and 22 age- and gender-matched healthy individuals ...

In this work, we introduce a classical trajectory Monte Carlo (CTMC) methodology, specially conceived to provide a more accurate representation of charge-exchange processes between highly charged ions and H(1s) and H∗ (n ...

We calculate neutral-current contributions to the process ν+Pb208(g.s) ν′+Pb∗208, for incoming neutrino energies up to 150 MeV. The spectrum of Pb208 is calculated by performing a diagonalization of the δ-force interaction ...

A theoretical study of fully differential cross sections for the single ionization of CH4 by collisions with H+, He2+, and C6+ ions at energies in the order of MeV/amu is presented. We work in terms of the Born-3DW model, ...

Abstract. Background: The high blood lipid levels and obesity are one of the main risk factors for cardiovascular diseases, and the atherosclerotic process begins in childhood. Some environmental factors are supposed to ...