Incidence and risk factors of urinary tract infections in hospitalised patients with spinal cord injury.

Aims And Objectives: To investigate the incidence of urinary tract infection and analyse its risk factors among hospitalised patients with spinal cord injury.

Background: While the incidence of urinary tract infection varies widely according to the healthcare setting and patients' clinical characteristics, formal reports are limited in quantity. There has been no consensus regarding the risk factors for urinary tract infection.

High efficiency Si quantum dot heterojunction solar cells using a single SiO:B layer.

Si quantum dots (QDs) have been fabricated from SiO/SiO multilayer structures to create a homogeneous size. However, this structure achieved much lower efficiencies than would be expected in the Si QD photovoltaic field. This is because Si QD generation and photoexcited carrier transport is restricted by the adjacent SiO layer.

Vitamin E supplementation alters HDL-cholesterol concentration and paraoxonase activity in rabbits fed high-cholesterol diet: comparison with probucol.

Vitamin E and probucol are well-known antioxidants that prevent cells from the oxidative stress, which is a risk factor of atherosclerosis. Male rabbits were fed either 0.03% vitamin E or 0.