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Outcome is closely related to the patient's clinical status on arrival at the hospital. Although data that can serve as a guide to the final outcome of the nearly-drowned patient are available, early models to predict the final clinical results of each case, which could be used to guide initial resuscitation and subseq... |
ABSTRACT The prevention of falls is currently high on the health policy agenda in the United Kingdom, which has led to the establishment of many falls-prevention services. If these are to be effective, however, the acceptability of services to older people needs to be considered. This paper reports a systematic review ... |
Assisted reproduction has been carried out within the Danish health care system since the beginning of the 1980s. The first independent act on artificial reproduction was adopted in Denmark 15 years later, in 1997. The issue of assisted reproduction is still a subject of debate in Denmark. The main driving forces in Da... |
The invention discloses a method for realizing the numerical control of grinding roller curves by using an NC program, which pertains to the method by adopting the NC program to control grinding processing, and aims at providing a method that adopts the current NC program to realize the numerical control of the grindin... |
The epidemiology of Hi-infections in Switzerland prior to the introduction of a vaccine is known (Pediatr Res 1991, 30, 642), e.g. meningitis and epiglottitis have an annual incidence of 23 and 13/100'000 respectively in children ≤ 5 years. Surveillance of Hi diseases is warranted by a mandatory reporting system for ph... |
Vascular calcification (VC) is considered to be an important initiating risk factor of cardiovascular events, which contributes to the leading cause of death in maintenance hemodialysis (MHD) patients. VC has a high incidence and has been reported to predict the mortality of MHD patients. Inspired by an extreme exampl... |
A total of 1583 patients in our Blood Purification Center from January 2015 to September 2017 were screened, and 237 eligible patients were finally included. Abdominal-pelvic computed tomography images were collected and an open-source software 3D Slicer (version 4.11) was used to calculate the calcification volume in... |
The prevalence of total VC is 95.36%. Among the abdominal arteries, abdominal aortic calcification is the most prevalent (88.61%), followed by calcification of internal iliac artery (85.65%) and common iliac artery (80.17%). Median survival time was 37.00 (1.00–70.00) months. The 1-year survival rate, 3-year survival ... |
This is the first study evaluating the calcification volume of abdominal aortic branches and comparing their predictive values. In conclusion, calcification of abdominal aortic branches, especially internal iliac artery, is a better predictor for mortality of HD patients than abdominal aortic calcification. Our concer... |
Facilitating Spatio-Temporal Operations in a Versatile Video Database System |
In a video database, large amount of information involving video, audio, and/or images needs to be stored and managed. Therefore, there is an important need for novel techniques and systems that can provide an efficient retrieval facility of the voluminous data stored in the video database. While "content-based" retrie... |
A 6-year-old girl, who was being followed for autoimmune thrombocytopenia, underwent a bone marrow evaluation as part of a routine work-up of thrombocytopenia persisting for more than six months. Physical examination was normal. Peripheral blood count showed: leucocyte count 8 9 9 10/l, haemoglobin concentration 120 g/... |
Two groups of patients (215 cases) with endometrial cancer were treated between 1968 and 1978 either by a combination of radiotherapy and surgery or by radiotherapy alone. In the first group (99 cases) with a mean age of 59 years, results were very favorable for stage T1 and T2 (49/60, 82%) which confirm other results ... |
Any computational approach to design, including the use of evolutionary algorithms, requires the transformation of the domain-specific knowledge into a formal design representation. This is a difficult and still not completely understood process. Its critical part is the choice of a type of design representation. The p... |
A typical manufacturing system consists of a large number of repairable components/ machines which age with time and require maintenance. This paper proposes a novel maintenance policy selection method using genetic algorithm. Where, maintenance problem is formulated for n-component repairable system to minimize the to... |
X-ray lithography fabrication has the ability to produce high-aspect ratio structures with smooth side walls and precise lateral details. Air-gap Standing Parallel Strips waveguide and related microwave circuits and antennas are a new approach to employ these features, providing low loss microwave circuits that are hig... |
We consider a heterogeneous (also called "hybrid") ad-hoc network with wired and wireless links. This type of network was previously considered by Kulkarni and Viswanath in (9) where achievable transport capacity growth rates were demonstrated for a structured wired infrastructure. The present paper improves on this wo... |
Background This study aimed to identify the course of unmet needs by patients with a first episode of schizophrenia and to determine associated variables. Method We investigated baseline assessments in the European First Episode Schizophrenia Trial (EUFEST) and also follow-up interviews at 6 and 12 months. Latent class... |
SUMMARY |
The linear distance between the bifurcation of the main right and left pulmonary arteries was measured on a plain postero-anterior chest radiograph in 20 healthy subjects and in 50 patients with mitral stenosis. For normal subjects, the range of trans-pulmonary artery distance was 6.7 to 9.5 cm, with a mean of 8.2 cm, ... |
Thirty-four out of the 38 patients, i.e. 89.5% with a trans-pulmonary artery distance of more than 9.5 cm, had mean pulmonary artery pressures of more than 30 mm Hg. Out of 12 patients with a trans-pulmonary artery distance of less than 9.5 cm, only seven patients had a mean pulmonary artery pressure of more than 30 mm... |
No linear correlation could be demonstrated between the trans-pulmonary artery distance and the mean pulmonary artery pressure in patients with mitral stenosis.High-efficiency tunable plasmonically induced transparency-like effect in metasurfaces composed of graphene nano-rings and ribbon arrays and its application. |
In this paper, a plasmonically induced transparency (PIT)-like phenomenon in a metasurface composed of a periodic graphene ring and ribbon arrays is studied in the terahertz region. We used the Lorentz oscillator model to analyze the metasurface physically and theoretically. This PIT-like effect can be tuned by alterna... |
OBJECTIVE |
To quantify relationships between dietary intake of zinc and antioxidant nutrients and early and late age-related maculopathy (ARM). |
DESIGN |
A retrospective longitudinal cohort design using data pertaining to diets in the past (1978-1980), which were assessed retrospectively using a food frequency questionnaire. |
SETTING |
Beaver Dam, Wis. |
PATIENTS |
A 50% random sample of free-living Beaver Dam Eye Study participants, 43 to 86 years of age (N = 1968). |
MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE |
The presence of early and late ARM determined from fundus photography. |
RESULTS |
People in the highest vs lowest quintiles for intake of zinc from foods had lower risk for early ARM (odds ratio = 0.6, 95% confidence interval, 0.4-1.0, P for trend < .05). This relationship appeared to be stronger for some types of early ARM (increased retinal pigment) than for others. Zinc intake was unrelated to la... |
CONCLUSIONS |
The data are weakly supportive of a protective effect of zinc on the development of some forms of early ARM. Prospective studies are needed to further evaluate the potential influence of these and other nutritional factors on different types and stages of age-related macular degeneration.Common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris... |
*Corresponding Author: E-mail: fankemhenri@yahoo.fr Tel: (+237) 699 83 89 69; 671 38 23 56. Phosphate solubilising bacteria (PSB) is an alternative for increasing the availability of accumulated phosphates through solubilisation, enhancing plant growth by increasing the efficiency of biological nitrogen fixation. Phosp... |
A friend and colleague of an author reviews a two-volume history. Acknowledging his relationship with the author the reviewer calls the books “excellent, full of rich new insights, sparkling with intelligence, the sentiment which underlies our empassioned love for the historian’s craft, one of the most beautiful of the... |
From paired blood and spleen samples from three adult donors, we performed high-throughput VH sequencing of human B cell subsets defined by IgD and CD27 expression: IgD+CD27+ (“marginal zone [MZ]”), IgD−CD27+ (“memory,” including IgM [“IgM-only”], IgG and IgA) and IgD−CD27− cells (“double-negative,” including IgM, IgG,... |
On the basis of research on gesture recognition algorithm to the static gesture as a breakthrough idea of using static gesture recognition to identify the dynamic gestures. Firstly, this paper used Kinect to obtain depth image and RGB color image segmenting a hand. After this , for each frame this paper used the skin c... |
OBJECTIVE |
To isolate PQQ biosynthesis gene cluster from Gluconobacter oxydans H24 based on sorbose-dehydrogenase activity. |
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