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1. The present experiments examine the physiology and pharmacology of the release of substance P‐like immunoreactivity (SP‐l.i.), from the spinal cord in the halothane‐anaesthetized, artificially ventilated cat. 2. Resting release of SP‐l.i. was 36 +/‐ 4 fmol/30 min (mean +/‐ S.E.; n = 106). Bilateral stimulation of th... |
Diet-induced obesity (DIO) reduces the ability of centrally administered insulin to reduce feeding behavior and also reduces the transport of insulin from the periphery to the central nervous system (CNS). The current study was designed to determine whether reversal of high-fat DIO restores the anorexic efficacy of cen... |
This study reveals an obvious interdecadal change in the summer water vapour budget over Northeast Asia around the late‐1990s accompanied with the abrupt rainfall decrease. After the late‐1990s, water vapour transported into Northeast Asia is apparently reduced under control of a local anomalous anti‐cyclone. The water... |
Cenozoic convergence between the Eurasian and African plates and concurrent slab roll-back processes have produced a progressive extension in back-arc areas, such as the Aegean region and western Anatolia. There is still a long-standing controversy as to whether this was a continuous or stepwise process. To shed light ... |
We study a production-inventory system in which input is deterministic, and its rate is the controlled parameter. The output is a compound Poisson process with exponential jump-size distribution. The parameters of the output process are unknown. The following adaptive policy is used: At each time t the unknown paramete... |
Abstract We examine the computably enumerable (c.e.) degrees of prime models of complete atomic decidable (CAD) theories. A structure has degree d if d is the degree of its elementary diagram. We show that if a CAD theory T has a prime model of c.e. degree c, then T has a prime model of strictly lower c.e. degree b, wh... |
OBJECTIVE--To assess the arrangement of myocardial bridges. DESIGN--A necropsy study of 90 consecutive hearts (56 male, 34 female). RESULTS--Myocardial bridges, either single or multiple, were seen in 50 (55.6%) of the 90 hearts. The left anterior descending artery was the most commonly affected artery. Thirty five of ... |
Portal vein thrombosis (PVT) is frequently observed as a complication of certain malignant or benign conditions. In this article, we report a 42-year-old male patient with no history of previous illness who applied to our emergency department due to severe abdominal pain in all four quadrants. One week prior to the inc... |
The effects of plasma fibronectin on the fibrinolytic system were studied in vitro. Fibronectin caused a time and concentration-dependent increase (up to 99% with 330 micrograms/ml) in the amidolytic activity of tissue plasminogen activator (TPA) but not of urokinase. In the presence of fibronectin the Km of the amidol... |
The present paper numerically investigates the micromagnetic behavior of permalloy nanostrips, starting from the space-time integration of the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation. The analysis is performed on objects with variable longitudinal size of the order of some hundreds of nanometers. The attention is focused on t... |
This article describes an undergraduate criminal justice research methods course that uses interactive teaching methods to explore the dynamics of policy analysis and program evaluation. The issue of prison overcrowding is introduced after a solid base of research methods concepts has been mastered. Prison overcrowding... |
Most greylevel threshold-selection algorithms find thresholds that are optimal according to specific regional or global statistics. These traditional approaches do not involve any model of the target except that it is expected to be separable from the background by a threshold suite. Thus, they fail to make use of the ... |
Corticobasal degeneration (CBD) rarely presents with rapidly progressive dementia (RPD). Its description primarily exists as case reports and case series only. This case report describes and discusses RPD as an initial manifestation of CBD for the benefit of clinician. A 75-year-old male who presented initially with co... |
In this paper, we propose a fully automatic method based on a densely connected convolutional network for the segmentation of the levator hiatus from ultrasound images. A densely connected path is incorporated into a U-net to achieve a deep architecture and improve the segmentation performance. The proposed network arc... |
A case of acquired dyserythropoietic anemia is described in a sixty-six year old patient: is characterized by a very considerable pancitopenia, and by the presence in the bone-marrow of notable morphologic atipia both in erythroblastic line and in granulocitopoietic one. The iron kinetics and erythrocitic surviving are... |
CONTEXT |
Germany and Switzerland have introduced diagnosis-related groups (DRGs) for hospital reimbursement. This scoping review aims to evaluate if empirical evidence exists on the effect of the DRG introduction. |
METHODS |
Medline via PubMed, Embase (Elsevier), CINAHL, PsychINFO, and Psyndex were systematically screened for studies from 2003 onwards using keywords-DRG, prospective payment system, and lump sum-in English, German, and French. Abstracts were screened for alignment with our inclusion criteria and classified as editorial/comm... |
RESULTS |
Our literature search yielded 1944 references, of which 1405 references were included in the abstract screening after removal of duplicates. 135 articles were relevant to DRG, including 94 editorials/comments/reviews and 41 empirical articles from 36 different samples. The most frequently used outcome parameters were l... |
CONCLUSIONS |
Only a minority of identified articles (30.4%; 41 of 135) presented empirical data. This indicates that discussion on the topic is not totally evidence-based. The only common trend was a decrease in length of stay.[Vitamin D levels in patients with inflammatory bowel disease]. |
BACKGROUND |
Inflammatory Bowell Diseases (IBD), either ulcerative colitis (UC) or Chron's disease (CD) are commonly associated with intestinal malabsorption, and insufficient levels 1-25 hydroxycholecalciferol (vitamin D). These insufficient levels could be linked with an increased risk of clinical disease activity. |
AIM |
To report vitamin D levels in patients with IBD living in Southern Chile and their possible association with clinical disease activity. |
MATERIAL AND METHODS |
A prospective, observational study in outpatients with IBD living in Los Angeles, Chile. Demographic data and clinical activity using clinical scores were recorded. Vitamin D levels and fecal calprotectin were measured. |
RESULTS |
We studied 44 patients, 32 (73%) with UC and 12 (27%) with CD. The median age at diagnosis was 33 years old. Forty-one (93%) had mild-inactive disease and 3 (7%) a moderate disease. Mean vitamin D levels were 15.2 ± 7.1 ng/ml. Twenty five percent of patients had sufficient levels (> 20 ng/ml), 35% insufficient levels a... |
CONCLUSIONS |
These patients with IBD had a high frequency of hypovitaminosis D.Antibodies to histones of the IgG and IgM class in systemic lupus erythematosus. |
Antibodies to histones were measured by an ELISA. Histone antibodies of the IgM class could be detected in other diseases than SLE, as well as in healthy persons. However, IgG histone antibodies proved to be specific for SLE and could be found in 21% of the SLE patients. These antibodies were highly associated with dsD... |
Many metadata repositories have been used to enrich music information retrieval applications, focusing on topics such as recorded music or performance catalogues. We present a database of bibliographic information that focuses on indexing writings on music, containing expert-curated subject terms from a controlled voca... |
Amino acids, including glutamine, glutamate and asparagine are major metabolic substrates for the adult enterocyte of several species. To determine whether circulating amino acids are utilized by the fetal intestine, we studied nine fetal sheep (mean gestational age 128 +/- 5 days; term: 147 days). Catheters were inser... |
A potential association between quadrivalent human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination and venous thromboembolism (VTE) has been reported in 2 postlicensure safety studies.1,2 An analysis of the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System database found disproportionately high reporting of VTE following vaccination,1 and a stu... |
We report the detection of CO rovibrational emission from the transitional disks around the T Tauri stars TW Hya and GM Aur. Transitional disks are characterized by significant mid- to far-infrared (IR) dust emission combined with a relative deficit in the near-IR, indicating the presence of an optically thick outer di... |
We report substantial increases in emission current caused by heating Si FEAs. A series of I-V measurements were taken from Si FEAs as they were operate:d in time and temperature, i.e. as they are "conditioned''. Each dataset may be represented by the parameters A and B from the equation I=AV2exp(-B/V). The 2-3 order o... |
Shape segmentation is commonly required in many engineering fields to separate a 3D shape into pieces for some specific applications. Although there are different methods proposed to segment the 3D shape, there is a lack of analyses of their efficiency and accuracy. It is a challenge to select an effective method to m... |
This paper reviews existing methods of the shape segmentation to summarize the methods and processes to identify their pros and cons. |
The process of the shape segmentation is summarized in two steps of the feature extraction and model separation. |
Shape features are identified from the available methods. Different methods of the shape segmentation are evaluated. The challenge and trend of the shape segmentation are discussed. |
Clustering is the most used method for the shape segmentation. Machine learning methods are trend of 3D shape segmentations for identification, analysis and reconstruction of large-scale models. |
Analysis and parametric optimization of 1H off-resonance relaxation NMR experiments designed to map polypeptide self-recognition and other noncovalent interactions. |
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