Neurofibromatosis type I

Diagnosis of Neurofibromatosis type 1 is based mainly on clinical findings which meet the diagnostic criteria for Neurofibromatosis 1 which was developed by the National Institutes of Health. Since Neurofibromatosis 1 is caused by heterozygous pathogenic modifications in NF1, molecular testing is rarely needed for diagnosis, and is only useful for certain individuals. The diagnostic criteria for Neurofibromatosis 1 is: 1 they must have six or more café-au-lait macules which are, for prepubescent individuals over 5mm in diameter, and over 15 mm in diameter in postpubescent individuals. 2 They must have two or more of any type of neurofibromas or one plexiform neurofibroma. 3 Freckling in the axillary or inguinal regions; 4 an Optic glioma; 5 two or more…

iceberg. A lot of people died during the accident. Small number of available lifeboats was one of the main reasons that led to such a high number of deaths. Such factors as sex, class, age, and others also significantly contributed to the likelihood of survival. Introducing different statistical methods, I will classify what sorts of people had a better chance of survival the shipwreck. For the data analysis, I have used the dataset “Titanic_Passanger_List” that consists of 1309…

With the advancement of medicine and technology, it is evident that there is a growing elderly population in the developed countries such as the United States. Perhaps, some casually phrase it as the “baby boomers getting older.” My experience as a nurse taught me that despite developments in modern medicine, there are challenges such as elderly independence and prevention of falls along with the combination of polypharmacy and multiple comorbidities posing as risks. The Center for Disease…

Denver Developmental Screening Tool II: Explanation and Implementation The Denver Developmental Screening Tool II (DDSTII) is a revision of DDST and DDST-R and is the most widely used developmental screening tool for examining children. It was developed at the University of Colorado Medical Center in Denver, Colorado; hence it’s name. It screens a child for cognitive delays and behavioral problems from birth to 6 years of age. The sooner the delay is picked up the sooner the child can get…

were positives and 3 were false positive. Depending upon the effectiveness of the PET/CT or CT for that matter – one out of three patients that did not have extrahepatic tumour was denied surgery. When it comes to sensitivity, PET was termed to be less sensitive than CT and SPIO-enhanced MR imaging in the detection of LM. It was concluded that the modality of the PET has been the most sensitive non-invasive imaging to detecting LM. Not many of the studies part of meta-analysis reported lesion by…

those first word, or may have a problem learning to speak altogether. But according to Autism Spectrum Disorders Health Center “[a]s many as 40% of people with autism never speak”. The last of the core symptoms is someone’s activities and play and the lack of interests in that those. Where most children when they play with a toy car for example, the child would push the car around and try to do what they see normally. But a child with autism might focus on some part of the car to play with…

Functional behavioral assessment is necessary tool in Applied Behavior Analysis field. In this paper I will discuss my area of interest. I will also discuss Functional Behavioral Assessment testing instrument in school setting. I will discuss the false negatives, false positives, hits and miss of interpreting and the validity of FBA. Including, FBA in relations to cultural divers students. FUNCTIONAL BEHAVIORL ASSESSMENT In the field of Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) one of…

Elizabeth Fernandez Professor Richardson General Biology 2 Lab Section 01 March 27, 2017 Comparative Sensory Physiology Lab Introduction: All animals have specialized receptor cells that are sensitive to certain inputs like sound, light and chemicals. When these receptor cells are stimulated a nerve impulse is sent across the body and into the central nervous system where the signal is perceived as one of the animals senses (taste, hearing, sight, smell, equilibrium, etc.). There are three…

The statistical test used in this experiment was a Chi-square test because it measures the goodness of fit. There were 370 trials performed in the overall experiment. The sample size in the experiment was 740. Each cricket whether it was labeled intruder or resident had an observed and expectant number times it should win. For the resident crickets, it was expected that the cricket would win 185 times in the experiment. The observed value was calculated to be 238 wins in the experiment as well.…

both the identity and transcriptional level of: 1) each coding gene; 2) non-coding RNA genes; 3) miRNA transcripts; and 4) previously known and novel gene-fusion events. To select transcripts for further study, stringent statistical analysis will be used to examine the RNASeq data to identify transcripts that are differentially expressed between samples. Differential expression of top outliner candidate transcripts will be validated with alternative methods of RT-PCR, western blot, mQDL, or…