VALIDATION OF THE FLOURISHING SCALE AND SCALE OF POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE EXPERIENCE IN A CHINESE COMMUNITY SAMPLE.

Validation of the flourishing scale and scale of positive and negative experience in a Chinese community sample.

Diener and colleagues (2010) created concise assessment tools to study flourishing and Positive and Negative emotions.The two scales had been validated with English-speaking and Connection Protector German-speaking participants.Nevertheless, its applicability for Chinese is not well established.The current study validated the two scales in traditio

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Susceptibility of Biomphalaria tenagophila and Biomphalaria straminea to Schistosoma mansoni infection detected by low stringency polymerase chain reaction

In order to determine Schistosoma mansoni infection rates in Biomphalaria tenagophila and B.straminea, low stringency polymerase chain reaction (LS-PCR) technique was used as a complementary method to light exposure technique.LS-PCR Knife Roll has already been standardized in our laboratory to detect the trematode DNA in B.glabrata.Higher S.mansoni

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Intensified tuberculosis case finding among malnourished children in nutritional rehabilitation centres of Karnataka, India: missed opportunities.

BackgroundSevere acute malnutrition (SAM) is the most serious form of malnutrition affecting children under-five and is associated with many infectious diseases including Tuberculosis (TB).In India, nutritional rehabilitation centres (NRCs) have been recently established for the management of SAM including TB.The National TB Programme (NTP) in Indi

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