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13.3 percent of subjects knew the recommended vertical distance and only 20 percent of subjects knew the recommended horizontal distance. Chi Square analyses substantiated that the majority of subjects were unaware of guidelines set forth by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) for the correct pos... |
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The results of this cross-sectional study raise concerns about chiropractic intern knowledge and application of correct head restraint positioning. The importance of chiropractors informing patients of the correct head restraint position should be emphasized in chiropractic education to help minimize or prevent injury ... |
This study examined the effectiveness of the educational components of a child-focused Post Separation Cooperative Parenting (PSCP) program aimed at lowering inter-parental acrimony, improving parent–child relationships and supporting adaptive outcomes for an identified child. Inter-parental acrimony is common among ad... |
With the commercialization of the Internet, a great many electronic shopping malls have been established. Their initial purpose was to provide the necessary infrastructure for participating suppliers to open on-line shops, and for consumers to more easily trace goods and services. Recent shutdowns of big electronic mal... |
Gallstone ileus is a mechanical impaction of the small intestine by one or several large gallstones that have migrated into the gastrointestinal lumen via a cholecystoenteric fistula. Although this complication of cholelithiasis is rare and implicated in less than 5 per cent of all small bowel obstructions, it carries ... |
We use the framework developed in Richardson et al. (2004) to identify country, firm and analyst characteristics that we expect to be associated with the prevalence of the analyst walk-down forecast pattern. Based on a large sample of 50,649 analysts covering 33,645 firms from 46 countries during 1992-2014, we find tha... |
Summary The reflection full waveform inversion (RWI) is a promising method to recover the low-to-intermediate wavenumber of the model with reflection data. However, it is very difficult to precondition this highly nonlinear problem for robust convergence. The second-order derivative of the objective function, i.e. Hess... |
Hurricane Isaias struck the Cape Fear Region of North Carolina around 23:00 EDT on 3 August 2020, making landfall at Ocean Isle Beach as a Category 1 storm with peak wind speeds of 80 mph. An array of nearshore Sofar Spotter wave buoys captured the wave field at two beaches off the coasts of Bald Head Island (south-fac... |
Pharmaceutical companies exist today in a hostile legal and regulatory environment. The threat of product liability in the pharmaceutical industry has risen to the point where it stifles research and development, especially for contraceptive and psychotropic drugs. Regulatory sanctions against the industry are more lik... |
Given the highly carnivalized view of the world that informs the narrative structure of Envy (Zavist'. 1927), one should not be terribly surprised to find that Iurii Olesha's controversial novella contains gastronomic and alimentary motifs that function in a highly Rabelaisian way, with food imagery being called upon t... |
In many ways, the lexicon remains the Achilles heel of modern automatic speech recognizers. Unlike stochastic acoustic and language models that learn the values of their parameters from training data, the baseform pronunciations of words in a recognizer's lexicon are typically specified manually, and do not change, unl... |
The articles in this special issue of the NHSA Dialog contribute to the growing body of literature on the importance of engaging parents in early childhood education for children’s development, learning and achievement. They highlight cultural factors that programs should take into consideration in their outreach to pa... |
Neo-robust control is a new theory proposed by the authors, which utilizes both the gain and the phase information of uncertainty in robust control design. In this paper, we focus on the analysis of robust performance. Specifically, we analyze the robust sensitivity and the robust bandwidth in detail. Further, disclose... |
The incidence of suicidal acts was studied in 68 depressed patients and related to the level of 5-hydroxyindoleacetic acid (5-HIAA) in the cerebrospinal fluid. The distribution of 5-HIAA levels was bimodal. Patients in the low 5-HIAA mode (below 15 ng/ml) attempted suicide significantly more often than those in the hig... |
The design, fabrication and experimental validation of two MicroElectroMechanical Systems (MEMS) Double-Ended Tuning-Fork (DETF) resonators that exhibit an intrinsic sub-350 ppm thermal stability in the temperature range [5°C–85°C] are reported. A strategy for the optimization of the design of MEMS resonators that exhi... |
The capabilities of detection of low-observable unmanned aerial vehicles via the forward scattering radar are considered. The configuration of multi-static forward scattering radar enabling the improvement of target detection efficiency is proposed. The forward scattering radar cross section of the widely spread unmann... |
Ionized polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are thought to constitute an important component of the interstellar medium. Despite this fact, the infrared spectroscopic properties of ionized PAHs are almost unknown. The results we present here derive from our ongoing spectroscopic study of matrix isolated PAH ions an... |
Production of biofuels such as ethanol from non-grain crops may contribute to alleviating the global energy crisis and reducing the potential threat to food security. Tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) is a commercial crop with high biomass yield. Breeding of starch-rich tobacco plants may provide alternative raw materials fo... |
There is a debate about long-term treatment of schizophrenia with antipsychotic drugs, with some experts suggesting that these drugs should be discontinued. In this issue, Takeuchi et al demonstrated by a meta-analysis of 11 trials that antipsychotic drugs maintained their efficacy for relapse prevention for 1 year, wh... |
The activity of sensory neurons can be modulated by both external stimuli and an animal’s internal state. Characterizing the role of these bottom-up and top-down factors as well as the way in which they interact is critical for an understanding of how the activity of sensory neurons contributes to perception. To this e... |
Intraoperative cholangiogram (IOC) is a useful tool for surgeons to assess anatomy of the biliary tree and diagnose biliary pathology. Many surgeons utilize cholangiography in most cases in hopes of preventing ductal injuries and are deemed routine cholangiographers. There is little data on the success rate and reasons... |
The morphologies of star-block copolymer (AB)n and (BA)n in a selective solvent for A-block are investigated by using dissipative particle dynamics. For a star-block copolymer of (BA)n type with a large enough arm number n, since the solvophobic B-blocks are situated in the inner part of the star, it behaves as a unimo... |
Abstract As our knowledge of HIV evolved over the decades, so have the approaches taken to prevent its transmission. Public health scholars and practitioners have engaged in four key strategies for HIV prevention: behavioral-, technological-, biomedical-, and structural/community-level interventions. We reviewed recent... |
A review of the published literature on the trophic magnification factor (TMF) for per‐ and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) was conducted to assess how biomagnification varies across aquatic systems worldwide. Although the TMF has been recognized as the most reliable tool for assessing the biomagnification of organic... |
Two-dimensional (2D) image processing and three-dimensional (3D) LIDAR point cloud data analytics are two important techniques of sensor data processing for many applications such as autonomous systems, auto driving cars, medical imaging and many other fields. However, 2D image data are the data that are distributed in... |
A recently proposed impuritylike many-body theory for the electronic structure of transition-metal compounds is extended to core photoemission. The theory is worked out in detail for the nickel dihalides, and we compare the results with experimental 2p spectra. We show that these spectra can be used for a quantitative ... |
Introduction The UK has the highest age-standardised incidence of oesophageal adenocarcinoma (EAC) worldwide. Deaths from EAC have risen by 50% since the 1970’s and 10-year survival is 1 in 10. An activated stroma (defined by α-SMA positive, Cancer Associated Fibroblasts (CAF)) is associated with poor prognosis across ... |
Disparate properties of gold(I) converge to produce the first known cube assembly of eight Au(I) atoms connected by four N-bridging amidinate ligands on the sides of the cube, capped above and below by hyper-coordinate carbon atoms from a phosphorous ylide. There are no phosphines coordinated to the Au(I) atoms. The cl... |
The road accident rate has been growing in recent years; therefore, an analysis of the road accident hotspots is essential to reduce the number of accidents occurring in high-accident-density areas. Sri Racha district in Chon Buri province was selected as the study area for this research. The accident data of 2012-2017... |
New and concise analytical formulae for calculating time domain potentials from Rao-Wilton-Glisson (RWG) type sources are derived in this paper, which can be applied to efficiently evaluate the interaction between two RWG elements in time domain, as is required in methods such as marching-on-in-time (MOT) for time-doma... |
Esophageal squamous cell carcinoma has heterogeneous clinical outcomes that cannot be predicted well using any existing clinical or molecular prognostic factors. Gene expression profiling may enable more precise prediction of the clinical outcome of these patients. We developed a new approach using gene expression rati... |
Phytobezoars are composed of fruit or vegetable matter, including seeds, nuts, and pits, and are the most common type of bezoar associated with gastrointestinal obstruction. Eleven gastrointestinal phytobezoar in children (less than 15 years old) seen within a period of 8 years (1981-1988) were analysed. Six were boys ... |
Computerized testing for the National Council Licensure Examination (NCLEX) became available in April 1994. In an effort to assist students in becoming more comfortable with taking the licensure examination by computer, faculty in the author's school of nursing initiated computer-based testing in selected nursing cours... |
ABSTRACT Origin of the humic substances formed in biological wastewater treatment system (abbreviated as bio-HS) still remains inconclusive. In this study, the bio-HS that contained humic acid (HA) and fulvic acid (FA) from effluent and activated sludge were isolated and purified with XAD-8 resin and ion exchange resin... |
Background: Secondary hyperparathyroidism (SHPT) in patients on hemodialysis is strongly associated with cardio-vascular morbidity and mortality. Treatment of SHPT with cinacalcet decreases circulating parathyroid hormone (PTH) concentrations and lowers serum calcium and phosphorus concentrations. Therefore, we investi... |
This introduction to the collection of articles published in MIA to mark 50 years of The Australian offers a critical assessment of the literature on The Australian. It covers the miracle of the paper's conception, its struggle to survive amid widespread doubts that it could, and the conditions that enabled it to flour... |
Abstract. Evidence from several sources suggest that blood‐brain transport of the large neutral amino acids (NAA) is abnormal in animals with a portacaval anastomosis (PCA) and in patients with liver cirrhosis and portal‐systemic shunting and encephalopathy, but the underlying mechanisms are unknown. After PCA, the con... |
Abstract The pressure—viscosity coefficient is an indispensable property in the elastohydrodynamic (EHD) lubrication of hard contacts, but often not known. A guess will easily lead to enormous errors in the film thickness. This article describes a method to deduct this coefficient by adapting the value of the pressure—... |
Computer architectures may be characterized by their operational principle and their physical structure. The paper defines these two characteristics for the novel concept of data structure architectures (DSAs). The representation and processing of arbitrary data structures in such a DSA is demonstrated by examples. It ... |
Background and aim Portal hypertension is the hemodynamic abnormality associated with the most severe complications of cirrhosis. This study aimed to identify noninvasive, routinely available means for prediction of gastroesophageal varices in patients with liver cirrhosis. Patients and methods This study included 150 ... |
Entity matching has received significant attention from the research community over many years. Despite some limited success, most state-of-the-art methods see no widespread usage in industry. In this paper, we present the author's PhD research, which aims at identifying issues that hold techniques and methods develope... |
We report the case of a 24-year-old Gravida II/Para I who was diagnosed with Hodgkin's disease (stage 2A) at week 28 of pregnancy. Due to clinical progression, a dose-reduced adriamycin, bleomycin, vincristin, dacarbazine chemotherapy was started at week 32. After unsuccessful induction of labor at week 35, secondary c... |
We attempted to evaluate the researchers’ behavior in using scientific resources in the Faculty of Dentistry at Tabriz University of Medical Sciences. The importance of such study is highlighted when financial resources are limited and the scholarly publications are on an ever-increasing rate, necessitating the selecti... |
We evaluated the references of articles published as a derivative of approved research proposals in Faculty of Dentistry, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences during a five-year period (2005-2010) using scientometric methods. Only published journal articles present in the faculty member records were included. Departme... |
Table 1 |
Frequency distribution (percent) of articles and citation resources in different departments |
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