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PubMed1999

Dental print media and their value in forensic odontology.

Teeth are one of the most important factors in the identification of unknown cadavers. One of the most efficient methods the police have of publicizing a case is to publish the victim's dental x-rays of treatment records in the dental print media which dentists will often recognize and thus be able to contribute to the identification. To evaluate the efficiency of this procedure, 177 cases published between 1975 and 1995 were reviewed. The results show that only 3% of the cases were identified from recognition in the dental print media. A survey of 500 dentists was carried out to gauge the efficacy of the presentation of identification cases in their dental print media. According to these results a revised method of presentation needs to be developed to improve the efficiency of this odontoforensic publicity medium. New technologies could also open new avenues for forensic identification such as digital x-raying or online data transfer. The Internet itself could be useful regarding international cooperation of forensic odontologists in the identification of unknown corpses.

Dental Records↗
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The palm print as a sensitive predictor of difficult laryngoscopy in diabetics: a comparison with other airway evaluation indices.

AIMS: To evaluate the ink impression made by the palm of the dominant hand as a screening tool for difficult laryngoscopy in diabetic patients. SUBJECTS AND METHODS: In this prospective study, airway of 50 adult diabetic patients, undergoing elective surgery under general anaesthesia, was assessed preoperatively using the common clinical indices such as Modified Mallampati test, thyromental distance, degree of head extension and a specific index- the palm print test. Following induction of anaesthesia and neuromuscular relaxation, laryngoscopy was performed and the laryngoscopic view scored. The sensitivity, specificity and positive predictive value of each airway evaluation index were calculated. RESULTS: The incidence of difficult laryngoscopy was 16%. The palm print test had the highest sensitivity (75%) of all the indices. The thyromental distance less than six cm had the highest specificity (95.2%) but was least sensitive (25%). 87% of patients with difficult laryngoscopy had two or more indices abnormal. CONCLUSION: Though the palm print test was the most sensitive index of the four indices studied, a better prediction of difficult laryngoscopy can be achieved by evaluating all the four airway indices preoperatively.

Dermatoglyphics↗
PubMed2000

Localization of Plum pox virus in stem and petiole tissues of apricot cultivars by immuno-tissue printing.

Localization of Plum pox virus (PPV) in stem and petiole tissues of four susceptible and four resistant apricot cultivars has been studied. Consecutive 1-mm spaced transverse sections were taken from the tissues and were printed onto nitrocellulose membrane in duplicate. For virus-specific detection, one series of prints was probed with an antibody to PPV coat and the density of stains was evaluated by light microscopy. Another series of prints was treated with a substrate but not with the antibody to reveal non-specific staining due to endogenous peroxidases. The virus was currently detected in all inoculated susceptible cultivars but only in one inoculated resistant cultivar (Harcot). In the stem tissues, the virus was localized in the pith and in the xylem. In the petiole tissues, it was localized in the epidermis and in cortical and medullae parenchyma. Non-specific staining was observed only in the stem sclerenchyma and in the petiole phloem.

Immunologic Techniques↗
PubMed2001

Suitability of tissue prints for immunocytochemical diagnosis of mammary cancer.

The present study was aimed at evaluating suitability of tissue prints for immunocytochemical evaluation of mammary cancer cells. The prints, originating from 30 cases of mammary cancer were studied using immunocytochemical reactions with monoclonal antibodies against estrogen and progesterone receptors, metallothionein (MT), P-glycoprotein and cytokeratins (clone LP34). Expression of individual antigens was assessed using the scale in which intensity of the colour reaction and percentage of positive cells were taken into account. The obtained results did not differ qualitatively or quantitatively from those obtained in paraffin sections. The studies have shown that tissue prints can be used for reliable immunocytochemical evaluation of expression of various proteins in mammary cancer cells.

Breast Neoplasms↗
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Meeting the challenges of writing effective patient print material.

End stage renal disease patients and families need ongoing education to help them cope and adapt to their illness. As nephrology nurses, you would use patient print material as a tool in your comprehensive patient teaching program. Print material allows the patient or family member to refer to learned material at any time after the formal teaching session. Developing effective print material can be daunting, but if you follow this article's stepwise approach, it can be rather simple. This article will discuss steps you can take to ensure the content is relevant to your intended audience, how to arrange the content to captivate readers' attention, how to organize the content to make it easier for the reader to read. The readers are then likely to memorize the material.

Humans↗
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Diagnostic utility of thermal printed panographs compared with corresponding computer monitor images.

Digital panoramic radiographs may be viewed with computer monitors or archived as thermal or laser prints. To compare the available diagnostic information from thermal print images to that of corresponding computer monitor images, four calibrated evaluators performed a qualitative analysis of 13 specified anatomic features in 60 pairs of digital panoramic images presented in random order on a computer monitor and as thermal printed images. Each anatomic site was rated both for subjective diagnostic quality and diagnostic utility using a nominal scale. Computer monitor images more often were subjectively judged to have better quality. Within the parameters of this study, both formats had acceptable diagnostic utility for the majority of the anatomic features evaluated.

Calibration↗
PubMed2002

[Preliminary report: dissolving effect of 8% lidocaine pump spray on the print mark of the Trachlight wand].

In the use of 8% lidocaine pump spray as a lubricant on the Trachlight wand, its print mark was found to have dissolved. We therefore studied this dissolving effect on the print mark with three different types of lubricant (2% lidocaine jelly, 8% lidocaine pump spray and glycerin). One of these lubricants was painted or sprayed on the wand, and after five minutes the surface was wiped with a swab. Both lidocaine jelly and glycerin showed no effect on the print mark, but when lidocaine spray was used, the mark vanished almost completely. The manufacturer recommends that any topical anesthetics or other active ingredients should not be contained in a lubricant used on the Trachlight wand. We conclude that lidocaine pump spray should not be used as a lubricant on the Trachlight wand.

Intubation↗
PubMed2002

Application and development of palm print research.

The palm print contains a great deal of information which is of great research and application value. This paper provides palm print research methods, application, and the relationship between the palm print and cancer.

Adult↗
PubMed2003

Biological treatment of printing ink wastewater.

Printing ink wastewater is usually very difficult to treat biologically and its chemical oxygen demand (COD) far exceeds standards of discharge. The COD in wastewater is usually 3,000 to 8,000 mg/L after flocculation and sedimentation. Herein, a strain of bacterium was isolated from the sludge and identified as Bacillus sp. and utilized to treat printing ink wastewater. The application of bacteria to degrade printing ink in wastewater is discussed in this paper. The influence of N and P sources on COD removal, and COD removal in combination with glucose was also discussed. More than 85 per cent of the COD could be removed using the proposed biological process. A novel internal airlift loop bioreactor with bacteria immobilized onto ceramic honeycomb support was used for the wastewater treatment.

Bacteria↗
PubMed2003

Developing an academic medical library core journal collection in the (almost) post-print era: the Florida State University College of Medicine Medical Library experience.

The Florida State University (FSU) College of Medicine Medical Library is the first academic medical library to be established since the Web's dramatic appearance during the 1990s. A large customer base for electronic medical information resources is both comfortable with and eager to migrate to the electronic format completely, and vendors are designing radical pricing models that make print journal cancellations economically advantageous. In this (almost) post-print environment, the new FSU Medical Library is being created and will continue to evolve. By analyzing print journal subscription lists of eighteen academic medical libraries with similar missions to the community-based FSU College of Medicine and by entering these and selected quality indicators into a Microsoft Access database, a core list was created. This list serves as a selection guide, as a point for discussion with faculty and curriculum leaders when creating budgets, and for financial negotiations in a broader university environment. After journal titles specific to allied health sciences, veterinary medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, library science, and nursing were eliminated from the list, 4,225 unique journal titles emerged. Based on a ten-point scale including SERHOLD holdings and DOCLINE borrowing activity, a list of 449 core titles is identified. The core list has been saved in spreadsheet format for easy sorting by a number of parameters.

Curriculum↗
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Tissue-print hybridization using a non-radioactive probe for the detection of infectious bursal disease virus.

Tissue-print hybridization was evaluated as a simplified means for detection of infectious bursal disease virus (IBDV) in the bursa of Fabricius from infected chickens. The assay employed a biotin-labeled synthetic oligonucleotide as a probe. The bound probe was detected using a color assay consisting of streptavidin conjugated to alkaline phosphatase. Bursae were imprinted onto nitrocellulose and then hybridized with the biotinylated probe. Bursal prints from IBDV-infected chickens were readily distinguished from control prints by color development and differences in signal intensity.

Animals↗
PubMed2005

Direct-to-consumer print ads for drugs: do they undermine the physician-patient relationship?

BACKGROUND: Critics of direct-to-consumer print advertising for drugs (DTCA) contend it alters physician-patient communication by promoting greater patient participation and control. We assessed the nature of messages in print DTCA to identify potential guidelines they may provide to consumers for communicating with physicians. METHODS: We analyzed all unique advertisements (ie, excluded ads repeated across issues or magazines) in 18 popular magazines (684 issues) from January 1998 to December 1999 (n=225). We identified every statement that referred to physicians, and within that set, statements that focused on physician-patient communication. Each communication-related statement was coded as a message to consumers about communication in terms of cues suggesting who should initiate communication, who should be in relational control, and appropriate interaction topic(s). RESULTS: More than three-quarters (83.8%) of the advertisements' statements referring to physicians focused on physician-patient communication (M=2.6 per ad; SD=1.8). Most (76.1%) of these messages explicitly or implicitly promoted consumers initiating communication, but cast the physician in relational control (54.5%). The most frequently suggested interaction topics were clinical judgments of the product's appropriateness (41.8%) and information about the product (32.1%). CONCLUSIONS: Typical direct-to-consumer print ads contain multiple messages about communicating with physicians. The patterned nature of these messages appears to promote social norms for consumers' communication behavior by repeatedly implying the appropriateness of consumers initiating interaction, physicians maintaining relational control, and avoiding negative consequences of advertised drugs as conversational topics.

Advertising↗
PubMed2006

Retention of retrospective print journals in the digital age: trends and analysis.

PURPOSE: The issue of retaining retrospective print journals is examined in light of the shift to electronic titles, the reallocation of library budgets from print to electronic, and the changing research practices of today's library users. This article also examines the evolving role of the physical library and its impact on space allocation. METHODS: To determine current practice and opinion, a survey of health sciences librarians and academic librarians was conducted. To demonstrate the use patterns of older journal issues, citation analyses and interlibrary loan statistics were examined. RESULTS: All methods indicate that recent material is accessed more frequently than older material, with a significant drop in use of materials greater than 15 years old. Materials greater than 20 years old constituted less than 5% of interlibrary loans and less than 9% of articles noted in the citation analysis. CONCLUSIONS: It is possible to eliminate older years of a print journal collection without a large impact on the needs of researchers. Librarians' preference to maintain full runs of journal titles may be motivated by reasons outside of actual usage or patrons needs.

Humans↗
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[Effect of Polyakov's "prints" on the catalytic properties of an enzyme substrate system].

Silicagels, formed in presence of an enzyme (histidine decarboxylase from Micrococcus sp. n.), substrate (L-histidine-HCl-H2O) and inhibitor (imidazole) (so-called Polyakov's "print") exhibited specific catalytic properties in the reaction of L-histidine decarboxylation. The "prints" of the enzyme, inhibitor and substrate increased the activity of the enzyme-substrate system studied. The increased activity was probably due to the specific adsorption of imidazole ring of the substrate molecule by the "print".

Binding Sites↗
PubMed1984

Online and offline print costs in MEDLINE.

The NLM and DIALOG user will normally make the cost-effective choice by printing online at 1200 baud rather than offline. At 300 baud the offline print remains the economical choice. Given the most reasonable estimates of citation length, offline printing is now the choice in all cases for the BRS user of MEDLINE. The cost estimates are based on the application of the Boyce-Gillen formula. Page charges are converted to citation charges where necessary.

Costs and Cost Analysis↗
PubMed1994

Na(+)-dependent, fluoxetine-sensitive serotonin uptake by astrocytes tissue-printed from rat cerebral cortex.

Previous studies have established that rat primary astrocyte cultures prepared from several brain regions of 1-4-d-old rats exhibit high-affinity, Na(+)-dependent and fluoxetine-sensitive serotonin (5-HT) uptake with a Km for 5-HT of 0.4 microM and a Ki for fluoxetine of 23 nM, which correspond to the characteristics for this transport for other brain preparations. However, it is not known whether astrocytes in situ show such uptake. We addressed this question by performing 3H-5-HT uptake experiments on cortical astrocytes, within 4 hr of isolating them from 6- and 21-d-old rats by the tissue-print technique. Quantitative autoradiography was combined with GFAP and neurofilament (NF) immunocytochemistry to distinguish astrocytic from neuronal 3H-5-HT uptake. In composition, the tissue-printed (TP) cells and processes were 60-70% GFAP (+) and 10-15% NF(+). 3H-5-HT uptake (0.3 microM 5-HT, 3.4 microCi/ml) in both tissue-printed GFAP(+) astrocytes and NF(+) structures was sensitive to 1 microM fluoxetine and was also Na+ dependent. More than 90% of TP astrocytes from 6- and 21-d-old rats and 100% of NF(+) structures from 21-d-old rats showed positive 3H-5-HT uptake (defined as > or = 31 grains/10(3) microns2). The highest level of uptake (> or = 191 grains/10(3) microns2) was never observed in TP astrocytes but was exhibited by about half of the NF(+) structures. In other experiments were found that 3H-5-HT uptake by 6-d-old TP astrocytes was comparable to uptake by postnatal age-matched primary cultured astrocytes that were grown in fetal bovine serum (FBS). However, primary cultured astrocytes grown in horse serum showed lower uptake than that observed with FBS, a finding similar to previous results in cultures where 3H-5-HT uptake was measured per milligram of cell protein. These results imply that high-affinity, Na(+)-dependent and fluoxetine-sensitive 5-HT uptake occurs in rat cortical astrocytes in situ.

Animals↗
PubMed1996

Value of intraoperative image intensifier prints in trauma surgery.

We have studied the use of image intensification in a trauma theatre over a period of 6 months with particular reference to the acquisition of intraoperative image intensifier thermal prints instead of formal radiographs. The quality of the prints and the savings generated have been assessed. During the study period, 476 patients underwent orthopaedic trauma procedures. The image intensifier was used for intraoperative screening in 280 patients. In 278 of these a thermal print was obtained. This was used, instead of formal check radiographs, to plan further management in 210 patients (75%). In 68 patients, the printout was insufficient in its coverage of the operated area, and a check radiograph was also obtained. In no case did the clarity of the thermal image hinder accurate interpretation. We believe that thermal images are a useful substitute for formal postoperative radiographs in many trauma cases, and that, with notable exceptions, their use could decrease costs, reduce patient discomfort and radiation dose and spare overloaded radiology services.

Bone and Bones↗
PubMed1997

Detection and tissue distribution of potato spindle tuber viroid in infected tomato plants by tissue print hybridization.

Potato spindle tuber viroid (PSTVd) was detected in two cultivars of tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.) by tissue print hybridization of cross-sections of stem and rhachis, using a 35S-labeled PSTVd RNA probe. PSTVd was detectable in the viroid-sensitive and symptom-developing cv "Rutgers" 2 weeks p.i., and in the viroid-tolerant and practically symptomless cv "Goldkugel" 3 weeks p.i. In both tomato cultivars, PSTVd accumulated in the upper parts of the plants newly grown after inoculation. It was predominantly found in association with the ring formed by the vascular tissue. The final accumulation of PSTVd as well as its spatial distribution were similar in the sensitive and in the tolerant tomato cultivar, as estimated from the tissue print autoradiographs. Thus, tissue print hybridization provides a rapid and sensitive means for viroid diagnosis and for the assessment of tissue-specific localization of the viroid RNA.

Autoradiography↗