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METHODS |
We evaluated 270 consecutive patients who underwent a computed tomographic angiogram for suspected PE. Patients without PE served as a control group. Demographic and clinical characteristics were analyzed. The Berlin Questionnaire was used to determine the presence of snoring and the risk of OSA. A subset of patients a... |
RESULTS |
PE was present in 71 (26%) of the 270 patients who underwent a computed tomographic angiogram. When compared with patients without PE, patients with PE had a significantly higher prevalence of snoring (75% vs 50%, odds ratio = 2.91, 95% confidence interval: 1.60, 5.33, P = 0.001) and an increased risk of having OSA, as... |
CONCLUSIONS |
We found a higher prevalence of snoring and high risk of OSA in patients diagnosed with acute PE, in comparison with patients in whom PE was suspected but ruled out. This association might be independent of other risks factors common to both OSA and PE. Therefore, OSA may represent a risk factor for the development of ... |
The models we have described so far can capture a wide range of strategic environments, but they have an important limitation. In each game we have looked at, each player moves once and strategies are chosen simultaneously. This misses a common feature of many economic settings (and many classic “games” such as chess o... |
Support vector machines and rough set theory are two classification techniques. Support vector machines can use continuous input variables and transform them to higher dimensions, so that classes can be linear separable. A support vector machine attempts to find the hyperplane that maximizes the margin between classes.... |
Plasmic degradation of crosslinked human fibrin produces unique degradation products. (DD)E complex and fragment DD, in which the DD moiety contains two fragment D molecules joined together by covalent bonds. In this study. fragment DD antigenic markers were studied using two different antisera: one against intact (DD)... |
The present contribution is concerned with applying beam-type expansion to planar aperture time-harmonic electromagnetic field distribution in which the propagating elements, the electromagnetic beam-type wave objects, are decomposed into transverse electric (TE) and transverse magnetic (TM) field constituents. This pr... |
The objective of this study was to investigate whether the relationships of appendicular muscle mass (ASM) with insulin resistance (IR) and metabolic syndrome (MS) vary by gender or obesity. Data of 10 146 normal-weight and obese men and women aged 19 to 93 years from the Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination... |
Abstract. This paper analyses biogeography and ecology in the grass Simplicia, endemic to New Zealand, with respect to tectonic geology and to distributions in other groups of plants and animals. There are disjunctions and phylogenetic breaks at the Oparara basin (north-west Nelson), the Western Province–Eastern Provin... |
The inundation model Delft flooding system (Delft‐FLS) was applied to simulating the historical flood of 1805 in the polder Land van Maas en Waal (Netherlands). Delft‐FLS is a two‐dimensional (2‐D) hydrodynamic model that simulates overland flow. Sensitivity analyses show a large influence of floodplain topography and ... |
TO THE EDITOR: In describing the natural history of post-transfusion non-A, non-B hepatitis, 75% to 90% of which is due to the hepatitis C virus (HCV), Koretz and coworkers [1] raise an important issue regarding the long-term implications of HCV infections. They show that patients in their cohort of patients with trans... |
Objective: The objective of the study was to examine the anatomy and histology of the swine vagina and adjacent supportive structures in comparison to human tissues to determine the potential utility of this model for pelvic floor disorder evaluation and management. Methods: This is a descriptive study of the gross ana... |
This article explores the psychological logics underpinning key perspectives in the ‘turn to affect’. Research on affect raises questions about the categorization of affective states, affective meaning-making, and the processes involved in the transmission of affect. I argue that current approaches risk depopulating af... |
The role of lithium in the mechanisms of aqueous stability of Mg-Li alloys was explored by combining in situ and ex situ surface and solution characterization. In situ surface evolution of a corrosion resistant Mg-Li(-Al-Y-Zr)-alloy in aqueous NaCl solution was studied by confocal Raman Microscopy and Kinetic Raman Map... |
In situ analyses demonstrated that both Li and Mg dissolved in aqueous solutions from visually intact anodic areas, leaving a Li-depleted metallic layer under an approximately 100 nm thick Li-doped MgO. Interestingly, in these areas the growth of magnesium hydroxide (Mg(OH)2) was very slow than in pure Mg, suggesting t... |
The proposed corrosion mechanism attributes the improvement of aqueous corrosion resistance of Mg-Li alloys to the increase of the chemical stability of MgO doped by Li+ [4]. The latter could be formed thanks to selectively leached in the solution Li+. Additionally, cathodic activation of Mg can be reduced on Li-doped ... |
[1] A. Maltseva, V. Shkirskiy, G. Lefevre, P. Volovitch, Corrosion Science, 153 (2019) 272-282. |
[2] Y. Yan, P. Zhou, O. Gharbi, Z. Zeng, X. Chen, P. Volovitch, K. Ogle, N. Birbilis, Electrochemistry Communications, 99 (2019) 46-50 |
[3] L. Hou, M. Raveggi, X.-B. Chen, W. Xu, K.J. Laws, Y. Wei, M. Ferry, N. Birbilis, Journal of The Electrochemical Society, 163 (2016) C324-C329 |
[4] Y.M. Yan, A. Maltseva, P. Zhou, X.J. Li, Z.R. Zeng, O. Gharbi, K. Ogle, M. La Haye, M. Vaudescal, M. Esmaily, N. Birbilis, P. Volovitch, Corrosion Science, 2020, 164, 108342Determination of the B1-B2 transition path in RbCl by Möbius pair potentials |
Using Chen-Möbius lattice inversion, we derive the interionic pair potentials from pseudopotential total-energy curves of the RbCl polymorph. Based on the potentials, the B1-B2 transition pathways have been analysed by calculating the activation energy and saddle point at transition pressure. The intermediate structure... |
The low growth rate of mist chemical vapor deposition normally requires a long growth time to achieve coalescence in the epitaxial lateral overgrowth of α-Ga2O3 thin films on sapphire substrates. To address this issue, sub-μm features were patterned using laser interference lithography. Periodical stripes with a ∼590-n... |
ABSTRACT The Pseudomonas aeruginosa transcriptional regulator AlgR controls a variety of different processes, including alginate production, type IV pilus function, and virulence, indicating that AlgR plays a pivotal role in the regulation of gene expression. In order to characterize the AlgR regulon, Pseudomonas Affym... |
In this paper, a new method that the wavelet singularity detecting and NN of fuzzy combined to process the mechanism libration signal of the HV breaker is introduced, which is called the NN of fuzzy singularity. This is a new method that the wavelet singularity exponent of fuzzification combined with the multilayer fee... |
Dramatic progress has been made over the past several years in the research and development of magnetic resonance (MR) techniques for imaging biologic structure and function, and much of this has been supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). MR imaging has capabilities that are unique compared with other i... |
In 1998, Congress passed the first law protecting the privacy of individuals on the Internet. The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) restricts the online collection of personal information from children aged 12 or younger. Under the law, Web sites that maintain chat rooms directed at children must either ... |
The complex black-box models, for example, the simulation model, finite element analysis model have been used in lots applications such as parameter test, sensitivity analysis, and semi physical simulation. Most of these models have a feature of multiple inputs multiple outputs (MIMO). When dealing with MIMO, the tradi... |
Fieldbus technologies have strongly contributed to the spreading of distributed control architectures in all industrial application domains as a viable and effective alternative to conventional centralized I/O solutions. In order to promote wide acceptance by application designers, the most vendors of these technologie... |
Abstract This paper begins by isolating the reductive component of Brandom's inferentialism. In order to assess to what extent that reductive component is supported by the considerations Brandom marshals in its defense, I assess the comparative degree of support those considerations provide a non-reductive counterpart ... |
UWB vehicular radar has the potential to be a powerful tool in improving vehicle safety. The Gaussian monocycle pulse, commonly used in the UWB vehicular radar system, can not satisfy the bandwidth constrains. So a new pulse shape based on wavelet is presented, which selects factors of Morlet wavelet to meet the FCC sp... |
Recently, a novel method for compression of periodic optical pulses based on a superposition of replicated and time-delayed original pulse trains was proposed. In this paper, we experimentally demonstrate that the phase shift of these replicas, as occurs in the temporal fractional Talbot effect, leads to compression wi... |
In recent years, Japanese animation movies have become popular in the world. Because of all of those classic and amazing animations, Japan has become one of the major countries that has a strong cultural industry. After decades of development, Japanese animation industry has gradually formed its own unique style. Japan... |
This paper presents a comprehensive procedure to calculate steady dynamic response and noise radiation generated by a gear reducer. In this process, the bearing force is obtained by solving the transmission system dynamic model, which is taken as the excitation of the gearbox, the noise generated by the gearbox vibrati... |
Canine relaxin (cRlx) was synthesized by a combination of solid-phase methods and sequential site-directed disulfide bond formation. Proof that the intended molecule had been synthesized was obtained by analytical HPLC of the intact and reduced molecule, by amino acid and sequence analysis, and by receptor binding and ... |
BACKGROUND |
The aim of this clinical study was to compare the results of non-surgical treatment of periodontal disease with an erbium-doped:yttrium, aluminum, and garnet (Er:YAG) laser to root debridement with an ultrasonic scaler. |
METHODS |
Twenty-five patients furnished two quadrants containing four teeth with probing depths (PD) >4 mm; the quadrants were divided equally between the right and left sides. On one side, teeth were treated by Er:YAG laser using 160 mJ/pulse at 10 Hz (test group); on the contralateral side, teeth were treated by ultrasonic sc... |
RESULTS |
There were statistically significant differences in PD between the test and control groups for pockets of 1 to 4 mm (P <0.05), 5 to 6 mm (P <0.01), and > or =7 mm (P <0.001). However, there were no significant differences between the test and control groups for CAL gain in pockets of 1 to 4 mm; statistically significan... |
CONCLUSION |
Er:YAG laser periodontal treatment resulted in statistically significant improvements in PD and CAL gain compared to ultrasonic scaler treatment at 2-year follow-up, especially in moderate and deep pockets.An effective way of word-level language identification for code-mixed facebook comments using word-embedding via c... |
Individuals utilize online networking sites like Facebook and Twitter to express their interests, opinions or reviews. The users used English language as their medium for communication in earlier days. Despite the fact that content can be written in Unicode characters now, people find it easier to communicate by mixing... |
OBJECTIVE |
To investigate differences in medication adherence, treatment satisfaction and clinical symptoms in schizophrenic outpatients taking different antipsychotic treatment regimens. |
METHODOLOGY |
Medication adherence was measured using the 8-item Morisky Medication Adherence Scale (MMAS-8) while treatment satisfaction was measured using the Treatment Satisfaction Questionnaire for Medication (TSQM 1.4). Psychiatric symptoms were measured using the 24-item expanded Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS-E). Data w... |
RESULTS |
A convenience sample of 131 schizophrenic patients was studied. Patients belonged to 7 groups based on their antipsychotic treatment regimens. There was no significant difference in the means of adherence (P=0.6) and BPRS domains: positive (P=0.6), negative (P=0.8), manic (P=0.2) and depression (P=0.9) scores among the... |
CONCLUSIONS |
Medications adherence, most treatment satisfaction domains and clinical symptom scores were not significantly different among patients taking different antipsychotic regimens.Respiratory health of plywood workers occupationally exposed to formaldehyde. |
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