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CONCLUSIONS |
We report a very high prevalence of hypoglycaemia, with a significant proportion of severe hypoglycaemia, in older institutionalised patients with diabetes taking potentially hypoglycaemia-inducing drugs. Having HbA1C < 7% exposes patients to a higher risk of hypoglycaemia, but this risk remains also high in patients w... |
OBJECTIVE |
To define the radiographic origin and insertion of the canine medial glenohumeral ligament (MGHL) at the scapula and the humerus of dogs as radiographic aim points for the surgical ligament reconstruction. |
MATERIAL AND METHODS |
The forelimbs (n = 20) from 10 adult, orthopaedically unaffected dogs (> 20 kg body weight) were used. Radiopaque markers (1 mm steel bullet) were placed into the visual origin and insertion of the MGHL. Finally, virtual digital radiographs were produced in medio-lateral and cranio-caudal projection and the location of... |
RESULTS |
The relative positions of the centre of origin and insertion points of the MGHL were located constantly in radiographs in relation to anatomical landmarks in the canine shoulder. Therefore the described methods are useful for determination. |
CONCLUSION |
The radiographic location of the origin and insertion points of the MGHL can be consistently predicted in radiographs of dogs with a body weight above 20 kg. |
CLINICAL SIGNIFICANCE |
The reported data can be used to verify the correct placement of the insertion of bone anchors for stabilising a medial shoulder instability by ligament reconstruction in dogs.Design optimization of interstitial antennas |
The radiation characteristics of multisection insulated antennas in conductive tissue are discussed. The effects of varying the diameters and lengths of the center conductors in the various sections of the antenna and the diameter and type of the insulation on the electromagnetic power deposition pattern and input impe... |
Cancer patients treated with chemotherapy often become neutropenic, which predisposes for oral and systemic C. albicans infections. The purpose of this feasibility study was to find out if gargling with anti-C. albicans immunoglobulin Y from egg yolk can prevent oral candidiasis in children, treated for acute lymphatic... |
The California Consonant Test (CCT) was used to evaluate different hearing aids for twelve listeners with mild to moderate sensorineural hearing losses. The CCT was mixed with white noise at signal-to-noise ratios (S/Ns) of +30 (quiet), +15, +5, and O dB and presented through hearing aids for each listener; the quiet c... |
The segmentation of the human airway tree from volumetric multidetector-row computed tomography images is an important prerequisite for many clinical applications and physiologic studies. We present a new airway segmentation method based on fuzzy connectivity. Small adaptive regions of interest are used that follow the... |
This essay builds from ongoing development and research work on a model of pedagogy, from New South Wales, Australia, known as the Quality Teaching model. Where international calls for the professional development and certification of teachers rely on mechanisms of credentialing, often with scant direct attention to th... |
Dear Sir, Cultural influences on mental illness are ever gray area of research in the field of anthropology, psychiatry, sociology, and other allied social sciences. However, indigenous understating is highly necessary to understand the mental illness and its metaphors. Hence, culture plays an imperative role in presen... |
1. The transport of potassium across the distal tubular epithelium was studied in vivo in rats on a normal potassium intake and in rats in which distal tubular potassium secretion was either stimulated by potassium loading or the I.V. administration of a 5% sodium bicarbonate solution or in which potassium secretion wa... |
Pulmonary artery endothelial cells (PAEC) isolated from fetal lambs with in utero pulmonary hypertension (IPH) have phenotypical changes that lead to increased reactive oxygen species (ROS) formation and impaired angiogenesis. AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) is known to be activated by ROS, which is expected to hel... |
The murine double minute 2 (MDM2) oncogene exerts major oncogenic activities in human cancers; it is not only the best‐documented negative regulator of the p53 tumor suppressor, but also exerts p53‐independent activities. There is an increasing interest in developing MDM2‐based targeted therapies. Several classes of MD... |
Theoretical researches are performed on the α‐R2MoO6 (R = Y, Gd, Tb Dy, Ho, Er, Tm and Yb) and pyrochlore‐type R2Mo2O7 (R = Y, Nd, Sm, Gd, Tb and Dy) rare earth molybdates by using chemical bond theory of dielectric description. The chemical bonding characteristics and their relationship with thermal expansion property... |
Study Design. Retrospective observational study. Objectives. We report our experience with patients who presented with osteoporotic vertebral fractures with no visible deformation of vertebral body. Summary of Background Data. The diagnosis of osteoporotic vertebral fractures largely relies on the observation of verteb... |
OBJECTIVES |
Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and proteases have been implicated as important factors in the initiation and progression of human periodontal diseases. A single application of LPS or proteases is insufficient to induce periodontal pocket formation or periodontitis. The aim of the present study was to assess the combined effe... |
MATERIALS AND METHODS |
Forty male Wistar rats were divided into four groups: combination group (treated with both LPS and proteases solutions); LPS group; proteases group; and control. Each solution was introduced daily into the palatal gingival sulcus of maxillary molars for 8 weeks. The tissues were evaluated histometrically and immunohist... |
RESULTS |
In the LPS group, elongation of rete ridge, apical migration of junctional epithelium (JE), increased numbers of B cells in connective tissue, and resorption of alveolar bone were observed. In the proteases group, the increase in the number of infiltrating polymorphonuclear leukocytes and blood vessels in the connectiv... |
CONCLUSIONS |
The effects of LPS on periodontal tissues differed from those of proteases. The addition of proteases augmented and increased the effects of LPS, which were apical migration, intraepithelial cleavage of JE, and increased B cell density. The lesions in the combination group resembled established lesions of human periodo... |
The ciliary muscle ring contracts about 0.8 mm in radius during maximum accommodation and this change in radius does not significantly alter as the eye ages between 15 and 45 years. Despite this constant movement of the ciliary muscle ring, the force of contraction steadily increases over the same age period from 0.8 t... |
Phenomenological inquiry resulted in a description of midlife mothers' lived experience of launching a child. The purposive sample comprised 14 midlife mothers who had launched a child within 5 months to 3 years of the interview. Data were elicited through interviews and analysis proceeded in a manner suggested by Cola... |
The occurrence of nerve growth factor receptor (NGFR) immunoreactivity was newly demonstrated in mesenchymal cells of lung bud and lateral palatine processes. Nerve fibers and enclosing Schwann cells with or without immunoreaction were present only in the periphery of the immunoreactive mesenchymal cell aggregation, bu... |
The paper proposes designs of interconnection networks (graphs) which can tolerate link failures. The networks under study belong to a subclass of Cayley graphs whose generators are subsets of all possible transpositions. We specifically focus on star and bubble sort networks. Our approach is to augment existing dimens... |
Abstract In this article I describe and analyze how a community dealt with the aftermath of Hurricane María in Puerto Rico and how we used music to deal with the aftermath of the consequences. Music, such as jazz standards and Puerto Rican songs, helped foster relationships between the members of the community, and was... |
Covid-19 and its aftermath brought home the lesson that in future we just cannot rely on welfare state to deal with sudden outbreaks or natural calamities. We would have to empower individuals in the era of digitalisation for quick support and social solidarity. We are living in a world today where profound socio-econo... |
This study proposes an alternative procedure for modelling exchange rates behaviour, which is a linear combination of a long-run function and a short-run function. Our procedure involves modelling of the long- run relationship and this is followed by the short-run function. Among all the possible combination of modelli... |
This review provides a summary of physical activity interventions delivered in faith-based organizations. Electronic databases were searched to identify relevant studies. After screening, a total of n = 27 articles matched our inclusion criteria; 19 were identified as faith-based interventions (some spiritual or Biblic... |
Importance sampling-based inference algorithms have shown excellent performance on reasoning tasks in Bayesian networks (Cheng & Druzdzel 2000; Moral & Salmeron 2003; Yuan & Druzdzel 2005). In this paper, we argue that all the improvements of these algorithms come from the same source, the improvement on the quality of... |
OBJECTIVE |
To evaluate long-term cost effectiveness of telbivudine and lamivudine for the treatment of CHB. |
METHODS |
Cost effectiveness was conducted from social health insurance perspective. A Markov model was established based on disease progression pattern and the data from the 2 years GLOBE clinical trial. The information of annual medical expenditure and quality-of-life assessment for different CHB-related diseases was obtained ... |
RESULTS |
Compared with lamivudine, the incremental cost for 1 additional QALY gained with telbivudine in treating HBeAg-positive and -negative CHB were 5403 yuan and 28239 yuan in Beijing, as well 4916 yuan and 29618 yuan in Guangzhou, respectively. According to national economic burden of CHB-related diseases, the ICER with te... |
CONCLUSION |
According to WHO recommendation for ICER threshold, telbivudine is cost effective in treating HBeAg-positive and -negative CHB, as compared to lamivudine.Social Correlates of Intimate Partner Homicide in Finland |
The question as to whether intimate partner homicide (IPH) is committed by average people as opposed to socially disadvantaged persons has both theoretical resonance and practical salience. The gender framework predicts that IPH offenders are socially and individually less disadvantaged than other homicide offenders. T... |
(72) Inventors: Jorge Mireles, El Paso, TX (US); (57) ABSTRACT Mohammad Hossain, Bangladesh (IN); Ryan Wicker, El Paso, TX (US) Methods and systems for manufacturing a three-dimensional product. Fabrication of a three-dimensional part from a (73) Assignee: Board of Regents, The University of powder spread over a work t... |
ABSTRACT It is not uncommon for social work service providers, researchers, and evaluators to develop measures to obtain client satisfaction data relevant to their particular service settings. These measures are often constructed through a set of (usually Likert-type) satisfaction rating response items for each of the ... |
The construction of applications for sophisticated scientific and engineering disciplines is often time consuming and costly. However, applications ranging from finite element analysis to numerical control to robotics have similar requirements for programming tools that can greatly reduce the time to construct an appli... |
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