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Editor First described in 1985 by Cohen et al., congenital erosive and vesicular dermatosis (CEVD) healing with reticulated supple scarring is a rare disease of unknown pathogenesis. To date, only 28 cases have been reported. Here, we report a new case with concurrent cutaneous herpes simplex virus infection at birth. ... |
Sir, Atlanto-axial dislocation (AAD) and superior migration of odontoid (cranial settling) and sub-axial subluxation in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) can present with cervical myelopathy.[1] The underlying pathology includes destruction of synovial joints, ligamentous laxity, and pannus formation.[2,3] Usual treatment of t... |
Abstract For the past several years, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and its contractors have been actively engaged in research to determine the capabilities and limitations of the state of the art of digital systems risk and reliability modeling. This program was developed to assess the capabilities of various ... |
This paper presents the design, fabrication and characterization of a novel tactile skin-like sensor with the capability of detecting at the same time external mechanical stimuli like pressure and shear strain and that possesses some of the intrinsic properties of human skin, like extensibility, flexibility and complia... |
OBJECTIVE |
Pre-excitation syndrome is considered to be autosomal dominant hereditary disease. The objective of this study was to search the genetic foundation of the pre-excitation syndrome. |
METHODS |
Genomic DNA was isolated from peripheral lymphocytes obtained from 44 cases of patients with pre-excitation syndrome and 53 normal persons. Polymorphic short tandem repeats(STR) were amplified using polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and analyzed by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. The genotype of each individual was d... |
RESULTS |
The relative risk(RR) of alleles A2 A3 A4 and A6 of D7S505 were 1.051 6, 3.432,1.563 1 and 1.714 3 respectively all of which were more than 1, but only the RR of A3 had statistic significant difference, P < 0.05 after tested by kappa(2). It supposed that the distribution of allele A3(266 bp) of D7S505 in patients with ... |
CONCLUSION |
The pre-excitation syndrome is associated with D7S505,the result is the foundation of the molecular genetics of the disease.Forward/backwardstate and modelparameter estimation for continuum-state hidden Markov models (CHMM) with Dirichlet state distributions |
In this paper, the foundations of the theory of the continuum-state HMM (cHMM) are extended to include a forward/ backward algorithm producing probability densities analogous to those in conventional HMMs, and algorithms for estimating the parameters of the state transition density and the constituent output densities.... |
The international legally binding instrument under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) on the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity beyond areas of national jurisdiction (BBNJ agreement) being negotiated, there has been a great controversy over which regime should be f... |
ABSTRACT |
The mnemonic BE-FAST (Balance, Eyes, Face, Arm, Speech, Time) has been developed for the public to better remember and identify the warning signs of stroke. However, discrepancies may arise when translating stroke educational materials from English to Spanish. This article discusses the use of a culturally tailored too... |
Fibrillation of the atrium or ventricle of the heart is a result of chaotic electrical activity of the heart chambers, resulting in loss of coordinated myo- cardial contraction. Fibrillation of the atrium is characterized by loss of coordinated atrial contrac- tion and by irregular conduction of this chaotic nougo AucV... |
Data mining is a collection of algorithms for finding interesting and unknown patterns or rules in data. However, different algorithms can result in different rules from the same data. The process presented here exploits these differences to find particularly robust, consistent, and noteworthy rules among much larger p... |
In this correspondence, we propose a cooperative-generalized-sensing-based spectrum sharing approach in centralized cognitive radio networks. Differently from the conventional cooperative approaches, where the secondary base station (SBS) takes a decision on the busy/idle status of the primary user and transmits with c... |
Background Guidelines for treatment of osteoarthritis (OA) of the hip of the American College of Rheumatology provide intra-articular therapy with steroids and hyaluronic acid (HA) in addition to standard therapy. The hip joint is difficult to approach and several studies in the literature show greater safety and accur... |
We applied resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging(rfMRI)combined with graph theory to analyze 90 regions of the infantile small world neural network of the whole brain.We tried to get the following two points clear:1 whether the parameters of the node property of the infantile small world neural network ar... |
A prospective clinical trial was conducted involving patients with prolapsed lumbar intervertebral disk proven myelographically, who had anterior diskectomy and disk replacement with a titanium-mesh block implant. A pilot study was done in 1971 on six patients. In this trial, 28 patients were operated on with informed ... |
PUNJAB· IS predominantly an Agrarian state having 85 per cent of its geographical area cultivated with an average cropping intensity of 176 per cent. Agriculture is the backbone of the State's economy, which is highly intensive and dependent on heavy requirement of water. As such, water is the life-line of Punjabi farm... |
ABSTRACT: We have performed localized in vivo proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy on two females with ornithine carbamoyl transferase deficiency during episodes of acute hyperammonemic encephalopathy with focal neurologic abnormalities. Spectra obtained from 2 × 2 × 2 cm cubic volumes at relatively long (135-ms) ech... |
The millionaire’s problem is the origin of secure multi-party computation. This problem has always been the focus of scholars' research, and it is also the design basis and important part of other secure multi-party computation protocols. An in-depth study of the millionaires’ problem is of great significance to promot... |
Introduction: Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are negative life events occurring before the age of 18 y. ACEs are risk factors for heart disease and diabetes in adult life. Furthermore, individuals who experience ACEs are more likely to smoke and become obese—factors associated with poor oral health. Objective: Th... |
A retrospective clinicopathologic study was done on 111 patients with a pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma. The mean follow-up period was 6 years. By means of interactive morphometry six nuclear morphometric features were measured in biopsy specimens from the primary tumours. Volume-corrected mitotic index (M/V index) wa... |
In recent years, molecular communication and internet of nanothings (IoNTs) are studied intensively for potential biomedical applications inside the human body. However, the communication through the human body, which could exchange data between the IoNTs and the outside human body, is seldomly studied. It is known tha... |
In order to accurately evaluate the reliability level of automobile based on warranty data, the MTBF calculation method considering the censored characteristics in warranty data and the influence of warranty period is proposed. Two types of censored problems in warranty data are analyzed, and a supplement method for ce... |
We have determined the effects of thiopental or isoflurane upon cerebral blood flow (CBF) and the cerebral metabolic rate for oxygen (CMRO2) when these agents are used in sufficient dose to attain a deep burst suppression pattern on the electroencephalogram (EEG) during hypothermic and normothermic cardiopulmonary bypa... |
A nonisotopic in situ hybridization method to detect perforin mRNA was developed in cytospin preparations of IL-2-stimulated normal human lymphocytes and applied to formalin-fixed acutely rejected renal transplant material. Individual cells expressing perforin mRNA were localized in severely damaged tubular areas, and ... |
The photodissociation of s-tetrazine via a three-body fragmentation channel (C2N2H2→2HCN+N2) has been studied by ab initio direct classical trajectory calculations using Hartree–Fock and density functional methods with split valence and polarized basis sets [HF/3-21G, HF/6-31G(d) and B3LYP/6-31G(d)]. The calculated tra... |
a very broad rotational distribution, ranging up to J=64, and has extensive excitation of the bending vibration. By contrast, N2 is produced with low J and with only a small amount of vibrational excitation in agreement with experiments. In accord with the experiment, the relative translation motion of the products rec... |
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Compared with conventional, whole-organ, S-factor-based dosimetry, 3-dimensional (3D), patient-specific dosimetry better accounts for radionuclide distribution and anatomic patient variability. Its accuracy, however, is limited by the quality of the cumulated activity information that is provided as input. This input h... |
METHODS |
Three to 4 PET imaging studies were obtained over a 7-d period in 15 patients with metastatic thyroid carcinoma after administration of (124)I-NaI. Subsequently, patients were treated with (131)I on the basis of established clinical parameters. Retrospective dosimetry was performed using registered (124)I PET images th... |
RESULTS |
Spatial distributions of absorbed dose, isodose contours, dose-volume histograms (DVHs), and mean absorbed dose estimates were obtained for a total of 56 tumors. Mean absorbed dose values for individual tumors ranged from 1.2 to 540 Gy. The absorbed dose distribution within individual tumors was widely distributed rang... |
CONCLUSION |
(124)I PET-based, patient-specific 3D dosimetry is feasible, and sequential PET can be used to obtain cumulated activity images for 3D dosimetry.Whole body protein metabolism in human pulmonary tuberculosis and undernutrition: evidence for anabolic block in tuberculosis. |
1. Differing patterns of protein metabolism are seen in wasting due to undernutrition and wasting due to chronic infection. 2. We investigated whole body energy and protein metabolism in nine subjects with pulmonary tuberculosis, six undernourished subjects (body mass index < 18.5 kg/m2) and seven control subjects from... |
Background: Studies on dental trauma of the normal population have been carried out in the past; however, limited data are available on dental trauma of the handicapped population, especially visually impaired children in Chhattisgarh, India. Aim: The aim of this study is to determine the prevalence of traumatic dental... |
A novel zinc-beryllium borate BaZnBe2(BO3)2F2 was grown by a high-temperature flux method for the first time. It crystallizes in P3[combining macron] with the cell parameters of a = b = 4.5998, c = 7.7037 and Z = 1, which is different from BaMBe2(BO3)2F2 (M = Mg, Ca). Interestingly, when Zn replaces Mg and Ca in BaMgBe... |
The present study was designed to determine the effect of exposure to high altitude on spermatogenesis using transillumination technique and sperm count in male rats. In addition, the effect of oral intubation for intragastric administration of vehicle on testicular parameters in adult male rats in a schedule of 42 day... |
Abstract Energy balance and body composition were studied in 10 cancer patients to investigate the interrelationship between energy expenditure and energy intake in the development of cancer cachexia. These data were compared to the findings in control patients of similar age with diseases affecting physical activities... |
Lempert, Chambers, and Adams (2000; hereafter LCA) make an important contribution to both the debate on affirmative action in legal education and the sociology of the legal profession. We find their empirical results credible and agree with their interpretations of the data related to arguments about the role of affirm... |
—Aging and usage conditions affect the battery parameters such as capacity and changes in the open-circuit voltage and internal resistance dependencies on the state of charge. This paper proposes an on-board strategy for the simultaneous estimation of these parameters and their robust evaluation during the battery life... |
No single word in the English language fully reflects the polysemy of the Greek term agon, which denotes the entire gamut of struggles from combat to athletic contests. Antagonism, then, is defined less by the origin or the nature of its conflict than by the mutual resistance implied by its etymology and its prefix. Th... |
A novel direct detection method for simultaneous distributed measurement of the temperature and strain along a single mode fiber based on the optical time-domain reflectometer technique is proposed. The Raman backscattering is sensitive to temperature but not to strain, thus the temperature distribution along the fiber... |
The influence of ethnic origin, body mass index, and parity on the frequency of gestational diabetes was assessed in 11205 consecutive women attending a multiracial antenatal clinic in London, where all women were screened for gestational diabetes. Logistic regression was used to model the relationship between gestatio... |
Phosphorus-containing N-heterocycles are important molecular motifs due to their unique structural features and biological activities. In this study, we developed a silver-catalyzed reaction for the construction of phosphorous-containing azepine derivatives via a domino-type dearomatization procedure, followed by ring ... |
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