Impending Doom: A Rare Case of Metastatic Myoepithelial Carcinoma.

Myoepithelial carcinoma is a rare malignant tumor arising from myoepithelial cells. The usual sites of occurrence are the oral cavity and pharynx with the majority of tumors arising from the salivary gland. However, there have been reported cases of myoepithelial carcinoma seen in the superficial soft tissue, upper respiratory tract, breast, skin, and GI tract.

An-m-Health Intervention Using Smartphone App to Improve Physical Activity in College Students: A Randomized Controlled Trial.

Using m-Health apps can provide researchers and others with an effective way for improving physical activity (PA) and healthy lifestyle behaviors. The promotion of health should move from a model focused on the physical and biological basis of illness and towards a focus on the behavioral changes that support health. Therefore, the aims of the current study were to improve PA (step-counts) and body weight using a theory-based m-Health app.

Co-occurrence of Acheulian and Oldowan artifacts with cranial fossils from Gona, Afar, Ethiopia.

Although stone tools generally co-occur with early members of the genus , they are rarely found in direct association with hominins. We report that both Acheulian and Oldowan artifacts and crania were found in close association at 1.26 million years (Ma) ago at Busidima North (BSN12), and ca.

Using Family-Focused Garden, Nutrition, and Physical Activity Programs To Reduce Childhood Obesity: The Texas! Go! Eat! Grow! Pilot Study.

Background: The TEXAS! GROW! EAT! GO! (TGEG) randomized, control trial is a 5-year study to measure the impact of a nutrition and gardening intervention and/or physical activity (PA) intervention on the weight status of third-grade students. This article describes the results of the pilot study to test the feasibility of two interventions and test the measures to be used in the main trial.

Methods: The pilot study was conducted in one school with third-grade students and their parents or guardians.

Hemodynamics of the renal artery ostia with implications for their structural development and efficiency of flow.

Background: Energy losses at tube or blood vessel orifices depend on the extent of flare as measured by the dimensionless ratio of the fillet radius of curvature to diameter (r/D).

Objective: The goal of this study was to assess the effect of ostial fillet radii on energy losses at the aorta-renal artery junctions since as much as a quarter of cardiac output passes through the kidneys.

Method: Pressure loss coefficients K for the renal artery ostia as a function of r/D have been determined for representative anatomical variants using finite volume simulations.

Late Miocene hominin teeth from the Gona Paleoanthropological Research Project area, Afar, Ethiopia.

Since 2000, significant collections of Latest Miocene hominin fossils have been recovered from Chad, Kenya, and Ethiopia. These fossils have provided a better understanding of earliest hominin biology and context. Here, we describe five hominin teeth from two periods (ca.

Children's weight status and maternal and paternal feeding practices.

Child obesity has become a major concern of health researchers. This study explores the association between parental feeding practices and children's weight status. The study also examines whether maternal and paternal feeding practices lead to significantly different children's weight outcomes.

Willingness to date across race: differences among gay and heterosexual men and women.

Willingness to date members of other races was examined among 200 men with same-sex dating preference (n = 100) and opposite-sex dating preference (n = 100), and 200 women with same-sex dating preference (n = 100) and opposite-sex dating preference (n = 100) who were randomly selected from an Internet dating web site. Overall, results indicated a greater willingness among gay participants than heterosexual participants to date people of other races. A 2 (Sex) x 2 (Sexual Orientation) analysis of variance showed an interaction, with lesbian women more willing to date other races than gay men, while among heterosexual participants men were more willing than women to date other races.

Mothers and meals. The effects of mothers' meal planning and shopping motivations on children's participation in family meals.

Participation in family meals has been associated with benefits for health and social development of children. The objective of the study was to identify the impact of mothers' work of caring through planning regularly scheduled meals, shopping and cooking, on children's participation in family meals. Parents of children aged 9-11 or 13-15 years from 300 Houston families were surveyed about parents' work, meal planning for and scheduling of meals, motivations for food purchases, importance of family meals, and children's frequency of eating dinner with their families.

Using multiple household food inventories to measure food availability in the home over 30 days: a pilot study.

Background: The consumption of foods, especially by children, may be determined by the types of foods that are available in the home. Because most studies use a single point of data collection to determine the types of foods in the home, which can miss the change in availability when resources are not available, the primary objective of this study was to determine the extent to which the weekly availability of household food items changed over one month by 1) developing the methodology for the direct observation of the presence and amount of food items in the home; 2) conducting five in-home household food inventories over a thirty-day period in a small convenience sample; and 3) determining the frequency that food items were present in the participating households.

Methods: After the development and pre-testing of the 251-item home observation guide that used direct observation to determine the presence and amount of food items in the home (refrigerator, freezer, pantry, elsewhere), two trained researchers recruited a convenience sample of 9 households (44.

Perceived parenting behaviours predict young adolescents' nutritional intake and body fatness.

This study investigated whether perceptions of parenting behaviours predict young adolescents' nutritional intake and body fatness. The randomly selected study sample consisted of 106 13-15 years olds from Houston Metropolitan Statistical Area. Parenting style variables were created by cluster analysis and factor analysis.

Sexual strategies theory and Internet personal advertisements.

Sexual Strategies Theory supposes that certain characteristics--namely, physical attractiveness in women and dominance and the ability to provide material resources in men--are highly desirable to potential mates because they are evolutionarily advantageous. However, socially based characteristics (e.g.

A cell-autonomous requirement for the cell cycle regulatory protein, Rb, in neuronal migration.

Precise cell cycle regulation is critical for nervous system development. To assess the role of the cell cycle regulator, retinoblastoma (Rb) protein, in forebrain development, we studied mice with telencephalon-specific Rb deletions. We examined the role of Rb in neuronal specification and migration of diverse neuronal populations.

Belief in a just world and social perception: evidence for automatic activation.

The authors tested the hypothesis that beliefs in a just world are automatically activated and used in social perception. Under the guise of a perceptual vigilance task, the authors exposed 34 undergraduate women preconsciously to words that were either rape-related or neutral. Immediately after the exposure, participants read a date scenario that was ambiguous with respect to the man's aggressiveness and the extent to which the woman was responsible for the man's behavior.

Apoptosis-inducing factor is a key factor in neuronal cell death propagated by BAX-dependent and BAX-independent mechanisms.

Mitochondria release proteins that propagate both caspase-dependent and caspase-independent cell death pathways. AIF (apoptosis-inducing factor) is an important caspase-independent death regulator in multiple neuronal injury pathways. Presently, there is considerable controversy as to whether AIF is neuroprotective or proapoptotic in neuronal injury, such as oxidative stress or excitotoxicity.

Early Pliocene hominids from Gona, Ethiopia.

Comparative biomolecular studies suggest that the last common ancestor of humans and chimpanzees, our closest living relatives, lived during the Late Miocene-Early Pliocene. Fossil evidence of Late Miocene-Early Pliocene hominid evolution is rare and limited to a few sites in Ethiopia, Kenya and Chad. Here we report new Early Pliocene hominid discoveries and their palaeoenvironmental context from the fossiliferous deposits of As Duma, Gona Western Margin (GWM), Afar, Ethiopia.

Time spent with patients and charges to patients for specialty consultations using telemedicine.

The objective of this work was to determine some of the determinants of cost in teleconsultations as compared to face-to-face consultations. Time spent with patients and estimated costs were modeled using time series data from a university Health Science Center located in West Texas. This center provides education, patient care, community service and research to a 109 county area.

Tracking of injected and resident (previously injected) bacterial cells in groundwater using ferrographic capture.

A high-resolution bacterial tracking technique, ferrographic capture, was used to enumerate fluorescent-stained bacterial cells that were injected into groundwater during a field experiment. The goal of the experiment was to investigate whether detachment of previously injected stained resident cells attached to aquifer sediment was enhanced in the presence of the newly injected mobile cells. This injection was an improvement on past experiments in that the attached (resident) cells were stained, allowing their concentrations to be enumerated directly by ferrographic capture (upon detachment).