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PRINCIPAL FINDINGS |
The conventional wisdom is that patients with a substance abuse comorbidity have longer inpatient stays than similar patients without a substance abuse comorbidity. We did not observe this trend. We found wide variation in length of stay by state and patients' health insurance. In some cases, length of stay was statist... |
CONCLUSIONS |
Our research demonstrates that a substance abuse comorbidity does not necessarily equate to longer inpatient stays and that previous studies may overstate the impact of substance abuse on inpatient care utilization. In addition, we find that a relationship between substance abuse and length of stay may not be generaliz... |
are readily cultured from disease-prone mice in the absence of exogenous stimulation. Although the capacity of autoreactive T cells to provide B cell help and secrete multiple lymphokines has been well documented in autoimmune mice1.2.5,6, the specific autoAg and/or MHC requirements for TcR engagement and subsequent T ... |
To increase the computing performance the current trend is towards applying parallel computing in which the tasks are run in parallel on multiple nodes. Current approaches in parallel computing tend to focus on mapping parallel algorithms to parallel computing platforms. However, the complexity and variety of current s... |
A rare pattern of colon cancer recurrence is presented. A 63-year-old man underwent surgical resection after diagnosis of colon cancer. The postsurgical-pathologic examination showed a stage II colon cancer (MAC B2). Six courses of adjuvant chemotherapy (Mayo protocol) were started within four weeks of surgery. During ... |
ABSTRACT This study includes geochemical characterization of source rock samples from the Upper shale, Lower shale, Talhar shale units of Sembar Formation and Badin shale, Turk shale units of Lower Goru Formation. Fourteen (14) sediment samples have been obtained from various wells located in Badin area of Lower Indus ... |
Internet of Things (IoT) is the cutting edge technology which is going to create a lot of |
opportunities in the near future. Development of Smart Devices that interact with the |
environment and make intelligent decisions will make life easier for all. Improving agricultural productivity is essential for increasing profitability and meeting the rapidly growing demand for agricultural produce due to rapid population growth across the world. Agricultural productivity can be increased by understan... |
to human observations collected and recorded via mobile smart phone applications. This data can then be analyzed to filter out invalid data and compute personalized crop recommendations for any specific agricultural land. In this paper, we propose to design and develop an IoT based Monitoring, Controlling and Decision ... |
BACKGROUND Removing unwanted body hair is a growing trend in society today, and there are many laser-based devices for hair reduction. There are some limitations to those methods, including the lack of efficacy for lighter color hair. OBJECTIVE The objective was to quantify hair reduction in the axillae after treatment... |
The authors reviewed the new technologies used for Panax genus research, including molecular identification technologies (especially for DNA barcoding), modern biotechnologies (e. g. the first generation and second generation sequencing technologies), and gene cloning and identification in this paper. These technologie... |
Steve McQueen’s Giardini (2009) was a film installation made specifically for the British pavilion at the 53rd Biennale. It pondered the architectural and ideological grounds of Venice’s ageing institution of art. Filmed in the winter, the Giardini della Biennale were made to appear derelict, abandoned by the summer ex... |
Texture segmentation is one of the early steps towards identifying surfaces and objects in an image. In the paper a moment based texture segmentation algorithm is presented. The moments in small windows of the image are used as texture features which are then used to segment the textures. The algorithm has successfully... |
The paper discusses the possibility of manufacturing silicon nanoparticles, which are suitable for contrasting biological tissues imaged by optical coherence tomography, by femtosecond laser ablation of porous silicon in various liquids. The manufactured nanoparticles are characterised by average sizes of 87, 112, and ... |
The paper discusses the approach to modeling the reliability of a complex system, based on the description of reliability by a continuous function of the “natural” aging of its components by a differential equation with a centered random component. In general, the model is a system of differential equations, where the ... |
During studies on the endophytic yeast communities associated with fruits from Vietnam, three fermenting yeast strains were isolated from fruits of the coconut palm (Cocos nucifera). Phylogenetic analysis based on the sequences of the ITS regions and D1/D2 domains of the large subunit rRNA gene showed that these strain... |
Let X={Xt,t≥0} be a d-dimensional (d≥2) standard Brownian motion with drift c started at a fixed x, and BR={x∈ℝd:|x|<R}, the ball centered at 0 with radius R. Consider the distributions of TR(t) and TR(∞), where TR(t) denotes the time spent by X in BR up to time t and TR(∞) the total time of X spent in BR. Explicit for... |
To the Editor. — Digitalis toxicity manifested by clinical or ECG signs is encountered in up to 20% of the patients receiving this drug. 1 Extracardiac symptoms of toxicity occur most frequently in the CNS (fatigue, dizziness, delirium) and the gastrointestinal (GI) system (anorexia, nausea, vomiting). The GI side effe... |
Photo-acoustic microscopy (laser ultrasonics) is a potentially powerful tool for nondestructive, in situ, MEMS device characterization. This paper discusses the use of narrowband photo-acoustics to characterize the properties of free-standing nanometer-sized thin films. Photo-acoustic generation is achieved by use of a... |
A portrait of several generations of the Namibian Getzen-Kerina family reveals multicultural and cosmopolitan lives in this former German and South African colony of South West Africa. The lives and struggles of, in particular, Ida Getzen-Leinhos (alias Kaera, 1863–1926), Magdalena Getzen (alias Kasondoro, 1905–1977), ... |
Abstract Although various parent-report and child self-report rating scales appear reliable and valid with child psychiatric inpatients, significant problems have been encountered with their use in outpatient and community samples. To assess possible gender and psychologic factors affecting correspondence of parents' a... |
Proactive anomaly detection and diagnosis play an essential role in ensuring the security and stability of a large-scale information technology (IT) system with thousands or even millions of components that are interacting with each other. Collective contextual anomalies (CCAs) carry the characteristics of both collect... |
ABSTRACT In recent years, the social research of Pearl Jephcott has been subject to scholarly reappraisal on the grounds that it displays an early commitment to the unmediated reporting of ‘the authentic voice of her participants’. This article investigates the extent to which this claim holds for Jephcott’s seminal 19... |
A comparison of postoperative metabolic and nutritional responses to different hypocaloric parenteral nutrition supports was performed in 42 patients with various gastric lesions. Sixteen patients (group A) received 3000 mL of a 5% glucose in water or glucose in saline infusion per day after surgery (approximately 10 k... |
Clinical sequelae have been reported in up to 10% of intubated neonates. A prospective and retrospective analysis revealed 94 patients intubated for greater than 24 hours and alive at discharge, 92 of whom were ventilated. The mean birth weight was 2294 gm (1010 gm-4600 gm), mean gestational age was 35 wk (28 wk-44 wk)... |
“Small businesses” are often lauded as the backbone of the American economy. Politicians from both sides of the aisle proclaim their commitment to fostering small business in the United States and its importance. However, as is so often the case in policy debates, individual voices can be lost in high-level discussions... |
Three different types of cells were synchronized by various methods and DNA‐end binding (DEB) activities of Ku were compared with asynchronous controls. In CHO K1 cells synchronized in G1 phase by serum starvation and in S phase by serum refeeding, DEB activity was reduced in S cells but remained unchanged in G1 cells.... |
The study investigates collaborative learning of small groups via text-based computer-mediated communication. We analyzed how two approaches to pre-structure communication influence participation, individual knowledge transfer, the convergence of participation and the convergence of knowledge among peers. We varied the... |
The Federal Reserve sets targets for interest rates which it enforces through direct market intervention. These targets are changed periodically. In this paper, we develop a term structure model in which the short rate is subject to a control which keeps it close to a target which changes from time to time. The probabi... |
Comprehensive legal regulation of relations arising in connection with the development of the digital economy currently involves the establishment of the grounds and conditions for bringing persons to responsibility for illegal actions in the new crypto sphere of legal relations, including criminal liability. At the sa... |
Acne vulgaris is the most common skin disorder seen in dermatology and primary care offices today with significant associated morbidity. The pathogenesis of acne is complex and multifactorial, and there continues to be an influx of new information to increase our understanding of this chronic disease. Recent advances i... |
OBJECTIVE |
The aim of this work is to test the stability of exogenous GHB in whole blood and urine samples collected from living and deceased GHB free-users, spiked with known concentrations of GHB and stored at different temperatures (-20°C, 4°C and 20°C) up to 4 weeks. |
MATERIALS AND METHODS |
GHB was added to GHB-free ante-mortem blood and urine samples at the concentration of 5 and 10 mg/L, respectively whereas in post-mortem blood and urine specimens at 50 and 10 mg/L respectively. All samples were stored at three different temperatures: -20°C, 4°C and 20°C and extracted and analyzed at three days, 1 week... |
RESULTS |
Post-mortem blood specimens showed a reduction of GHB levels higher than 10% only after a period of 4 weeks of storage for samples kept at +4°C and +20°C, whereas samples stored at -20°C showed a mean reduction of 8.7%. In post-mortem urine samples, there was a mean reduction of GHB levels higher than 20% at all storag... |
CONCLUSIONS |
According to our findings, it would be useful to perform GHB analysis both in blood and urine specimens within 3 days of sampling and the specimens should be stored at -20°C or 4°C in order to avoid instability issues.Early Identification and Intervention in Early Years: Preschool Teachers in Mauritius |
Preschool teachers have a key role in helping children learn in a classroom setting. It is therefore essential to equip preschool teachers with simple and relevant tools to help them identify children with special needs in early years, and at the same time to help those children in class, so as no child is left behind.... |
Over the past decade, data movement costs dominate the execution time of data-intensive applications for distributed systems and they are expected to be even more important in the future. Near data processing is a straightforward solution to reduce data movement which brings compute resources closer to the data source.... |
We present a method for precomputing robust task-based control policies for physically simulated characters. This allows for characters that can demonstrate skill and purpose in completing a given task, such as walking to a target location, while physically interacting with the environment in significant ways. As input... |
Mutants with altered fluorescence are likely to be modified in pigment composition or photochemistry. They can thus help address a variety of problems in photobiology, particularly in the areas of photosynthesis, photomorphogenesis and photobehavior. To aid in the screening for such mutants, we have developed an instru... |
Background: A number of reports have suggested that many of the problems currently associated with the use of microneedle (MN) arrays for transdermal drug delivery could be addressed by using drug-loaded MN arrays prepared by moulding hot melts of carbohydrate materials. Methods: In this study, we explored the processi... |
The local-energy-transfer (LET) theory was used to calculate freely decaying turbulence for arbitrary initial conditions over a range of microscale-based Reynolds numbers 0.5 [les ] Rλ(tf) [les ] 1009, where tf is the final time of computation. The predicted skewness factor S(Rλ) agreed closely with the results of nume... |
The core complex in photosynthetic bacteria plays a central role in photosynthesis. This molecular assembly is composed of two protein complexes, viz., the light-harvesting complex I (LH1), which absorbs sunlight by means of the protein-bound bacteriochlorophylls, and the reaction center (RC), which uses the light-exci... |
For 50 years since the first successful ablation of lung for lung cancer the thoracic surgery has accumulated rich experience with the operative treatment of the disease. The article generalizes the authors' material with 1800 patients with lung cancer, half of them being subjected to operations. Recent progress in ane... |
We studied the feasibility, reliability, and reproducibility of an "all-out" 30-second cycling or arm cranking test of muscle power and muscle endurance (the Wingate Anaerobic Test) in 66 girls and boys aged 5 to 18 years old who had cerebral palsy or a myopathy. The arm and leg tests, given in duplicate, were feasible... |
OBJECTIVE |
To detect the expressions of heparanase and nuclear factor kappa B p65 (NF-kappaB p65) in pancreatic adenocarcinomas and analyze their relation to patients' prognosis and the regulatory mechanism of NF-kappaB on heparanase expression. |
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