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A healthy compliant bladder is capable of storing increasing volumes of urine at low pressures. The loss of bladder compliance is associated with various diseases. The urodynamic studies (UDS), the current clinical gold standard for measuring bladder compliance, requires catheterization and measuring intra-bladder pres... |
In this paper, we examine the properties of the Laplacian matrix defined on signed networks, referred to as the signed Laplacian matrix, from a graph-theoretic perspective. The connection between the stability of the signed Laplacian with the cut set of the network is established. This is then followed by relating and ... |
To solve the voltage control problem caused by high penetration level of distributed photovoltaic (DPV) in distribution network (DN), based on the voltage control characteristics of the reactive power compensated PV and the voltage-controlled PV, a multi-time scale coordinated control method based on point of common co... |
The purpose of this research was to develop a biodata instrument that would validly predict individuals with zero or non-zero sales production in real estate sales careers. Correlational and factorial procedures were used to develop keys for the biodata instrument. A logistic regression analysis was performed to measur... |
OBJECTIVES |
To assess the relationship between relative estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) change and outcomes in patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D). |
STUDY DESIGN |
This retrospective cohort study utilized administrative claims (Humana Research Database) for patients with T2D aged 65 to 89 years, enrolled in a Medicare Advantage plan, with an initial eGFR of 25 to 89 mL/min/1.73m2 in 2008 to 2017, and a second eGFR measurement within 3 to 24 months after the identification date. |
METHODS |
The primary exposure was relative decline in eGFR of 40% or more in a 2-year period. Outcomes included end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) or kidney failure, a composite cardiovascular (CV) outcome, and all-cause mortality assessed with multivariable adjusted survival models. Days out of the home and all-cause total costs ... |
RESULTS |
A total of 288,170 patients were included. The adjusted HR for ESKD or kidney failure was 4.38 (95% CI, 3.99-4.81) in patients with 40% or greater decline versus those with a decline of less than 40%. The adjusted HR was 1.67 (95% CI, 1.53-1.82) for the composite CV outcome and 1.98 (95% CI, 1.87-2.10) for all-cause mo... |
CONCLUSIONS |
Our results indicate that a relative eGFR decline of 40% or greater is associated with an increased risk of ESKD or kidney failure, CV outcomes and all-cause mortality, and increased health care resource utilization and costs.User-friendly Configuration of AUTOSAR ECUs with Specialized Software Tools |
Three factors affect the complexity of ECU configuration: > More standardization A large share of ECU software has now been standardized as basic software by means of AUTOSAR. However, the AUTOSAR principle “configuration instead of implementation” forces developers to create a consistent overall configuration from the... |
This is the third section of an article (each published in subsequent regular issues of EPAT) that explores the concept of participation. Section I: Introduction and Early Perspectives grounds our exploration of participation and explores definitions and early perspectives of participation we have identified as ‘histor... |
OBJECTIVE |
To study the long-term curative effects of suture plus proximal gastric vagotomy (PGV) and suture plus triad-therapy (omeprazole, amoxycillin and flagyl taken orally) for the treatment of duodenal ulcer with acute perforation. |
METHODS |
Three hundred and twenty-nine patients with duodenal ulcer and acute perforation were treated with 2 different methods, respectively. Method A was suture plus PGV (group A, 153 cases), and method B was suture plus triad-therapy (group B, 176 cases). Follow-up was made by means of correspondence, outpatient reexaminatio... |
RESULTS |
Three hundred and one patients were followed up (group A 142 and group B 159). According to the Visick scale, 97 (68.3%), 19 (13.4%), 13 (9.15%) and 13 (9.15%) patients in group A, and 31 (19.5%), 28 (17.6%), 24 (15.1%) and 76 (47.8%) in group B were classified as Visick I, II, III and IV respectively (Z = -9.818, P < ... |
CONCLUSIONS |
The long-term curative effects of suture plus PGV were superior to those of suture plus triad-therapy for duodenal ulcer with acute perforation although HP positive rate was higher in group A than in group B. HP infection is one of the etiological factors of duodenal ulcer. The increased excitability of the vagus nerve... |
Information technology (IT) supports companies to streamline their business processes. The main contributions of IT are the digitalization of data and efficient communication networks, which allow companies to automatize their business processes and thus increase their efficiency, i.e., their value creation. This effor... |
This paper presents the design of an anthropomorphic prosthetic hand that incorporates four motor units in a unique configuration to explicitly provide both precision and conformal grasp capability. The paper describes the design of the hand prosthesis, and additionally describes the design of an embedded control syste... |
Amino acid exchanges in the Alcaligenes eutrophus nickel permease (HoxN) were constructed by site-directed mutagenesis, and their effects on nickel ion uptake were investigated. Mutant hoxN alleles were expressed inEscherichia coli, and activity of the altered permeases was examined via a recently described physiologic... |
Within the oak woodlands of California there is often a distinct shift in the botanical composition between the open grassland and the herbaceous understory beneath oak canopy. Botanical sampling at two woodland sites indicated that the annual grass Bromus diandrus was dominant under deciduous blue oak canopy, while a ... |
With the expanding of State Grid structure, operation instructions logics of power grid are increasingly complex, which makes it even more difficult to compile operation instructions based on the dispatchers’ experiences, consequently may lead to great risks in safe running of the power grid. This paper proposes an art... |
The non‐destructive characterization of intrinsic stress is very important to evaluate the reliability of devices based on diamond‐like carbon (DLC) films. Whereas the only requirement for the X‐ray diffraction method is a crystalline state of specimen, Raman spectroscopic stress analysis is restricted to materials sho... |
Concurrent septorhinoplasty (SRP) and functional endoscopic sinus surgery (FESS) has been a controversial topic in the literature over the last decade. Warnings and admonitions about the risks of performing these procedures together in a single surgery are both published and voiced at national meetings. Although pros a... |
Functioning of a company is largely based on digital technologies that form digital platforms - a set of products that implements innovative business models based on modern technologies, new ways of interaction with clients, contractors and partners. The purpose of the paper is to form metrics of data quality when usin... |
We report a successful surgical case with Turner's syndrome associated with partial anomalous pulmonary venous return (PAPVR) complicated by aortic dissection and aortic regurgitation without coarctation of the aorta. The patient, a 30-year-old woman, is of a short stature who was diagnosed with Turner's syndrome at th... |
OBJECTIVE To evaluate evidence supporting efficacy and safety of the combination of vancomycin and rifampin for treatment of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections. DATA SOURCES MEDLINE (1946-February 2013), EMBASE (1974-February 2013) and Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews were searched. ST... |
Background Percutaneous sclerotherapy is an effective treatment for lymphatic malformations (LM) of the head and neck in adults. The purpose of this study was to examine the indications and efficacy of sclerotherapy for head/neck LM in the neonate and infant population. Methods We retrospectively reviewed patients trea... |
BACKGROUND Continuous spike-wave during slow wave sleep syndrome (CSWS) and Landau-Kleffner syndrome (LKS) are two epileptic encephalopathies that present with neurocognitive regression, aphasia, and clinical seizures, typically presenting in children around five years of age. The pathophysiology of these conditions is... |
Shallow ice cores from an Antarctic blue-ice area at Scharffenbergbotnen were l4C-analyzed using a dry-extraction technique and accelerator mass spectrometry. The in situ production was determined from the 14CO component and used to deduce the natural 14CO2 component. The ages were measured at 10 000 ± 3000 BP. The acc... |
We present a verification technique for program safety that combines Iterated Specialization and Interpolating Horn Clause Solving. Our new method composes together these two techniques in a modular way by exploiting the common Horn Clause representation of the verification problem. The Iterated Specialization verifier... |
Abstract In 1914 a notable cliff fall occurred on the chalk coast of the Seven Sisters in Sussex. Debris from the fall travelled outwards across the shore platform in front of the cliff for a distance of about 75 m, forming a narrow tongue-like projection. The reason why the debris exhibited such mobility is uncertain,... |
3 Abstract: Conducting needs assessment for language programmes is important to gain understanding of the needs of the learners, to document programme effectiveness in terms of the objectives and outcomes being met, to examine strengths and weaknesses and to provide empirical evidence of the merit and worth of the prog... |
LiFePO4/C composite materials were synthesized by a solid-state method. The carbon source was selected from glucose, cauric acid, cinnamic acid and PVA and the influence of different carbon sources on the performances of LiFePO4/C was investigated. The crystal structure, morphology and electrochemica1 properties of LiF... |
We recently reported that CD3- natural killer (NK) cells express the zeta chain of the T-cell receptor complex (zeta NK) in association with higher molecular weight structures whose expression differs between individual NK cell clones. Because NK cell cytolytic activity is known to be triggered by perturbation of the t... |
Using static and time-varying channel impulse responses, the authors analyze the performance of orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) on multipath fading channels. They show that, provided it employs a frequency domain equalizer, single-carrier transmission substantially outperforms OFDM signalling, a resul... |
We have conducted deep photometric searches for substellar members of the Praesepe (0.5-1 Gyr) and σ Orionis (3 Myr) star clusters using the Sloan i' and z' broad-band filters, with the 3.5-m and the 5-m Hale telescopes on the Calar Alto and Palomar Observatories. The total area surveyed was 1177 arcmin 2 and 1122 arc... |
*Department of Human Physiology and Centre for Neuroscience, Flinders University, Bedford Park, South Australia Department of Gastroenterology, The St George Hospital, University of New South Wales, Kogarah, New South Wales, Australia Department of Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology, University of Bologna, Italy §D... |
This paper presents the design, system structure and performance for a wireless and wearable diet monitoring system. Food and drink intake can be detected by the way of detecting a person's swallow events. The system works based on the key observation that a person's otherwise continuous breathing process is interrupte... |
The dangler manganese center in the oxygen-evolving complex (OEC) of photosystem II plays an important role in the oxidation of water to dioxygen. Inspired by the structure of the OEC, we synthesized a series of site-differentiated tetra-manganese clusters [LMn3(PhPz)3OMn][OTf]x (2: x = 2; 3: x = 1) that features an ap... |
To meet the growing demand for freshwater, many regions have increased pumping of groundwater in recent years, resulting in declining groundwater levels worldwide. A promising development is technical change regarding groundwater substitutes such as desalination and wastewater recycling. However, because these technolo... |
As pa rt of a general study of the substi t ution o f fluorin e fo r hydroxyl in sili cat e st ru ct ures, it ,,·as fo und that fluorin e would pa rti all y substitute for hydroxy l in t he talc stru cture. As a res ult of thi s subst itution it \\as o bserved th a t the l' ind ex of r efraction was lo wered by 0.01 a ... |
Neomycin sensitive patients were tested for hypersensitivity to kanamycin, gentamycin, tobramycin, spectinomycin and to the new, not yet registered sisomycin and netilmicin. Cross-sensitivity occured in a considerable part of the patients, except for spectinomycin, the structure of which is basically different from tha... |
Fifty-nine HIV-1 infected patients with a microscopically proven first episode of moderate to severe Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) were enrolled into a randomized European multicenter study. The effect of adjunctive corticosteroid (CS) therapy was assessed on: 1) survival to discharge, 2) need for mechanical ven... |
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