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DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS |
Two authors independently assessed trials and extracted outcome data. They also assessed the risk of bias of the trials included in the review. |
MAIN RESULTS |
One parallel trial and 11 cross-over trials of children and adults with cystic fibrosis were included in the review. The number of participants in each trial varied between 14 and 129 with a total of 426 participants included in the review. All the included trials were for a duration of four weeks. The included trials ... |
AUTHORS' CONCLUSIONS |
There is limited evidence of benefit from enteric-coated microspheres when compared to non-enteric coated pancreatic enzyme preparations up to one month. In the only comparison where we could combine any data, the fact that these were cross-over studies is likely to underestimate the level of inconsistency between the ... |
The requirements of computer games by means of CPU and graphics performance are continuously growing. At the same time many low cost and modest performance CE devices are gaining popularity. People are already used to mobile life style inside home and on the go and want to enjoy entertainment everywhere. This paper des... |
Two experiments investigated the effect of hand position on the accuracy of short- and long-duration aiming movements in the presence and absence of visual feedback. In Experiment 1 (N = 16) short aiming movements were executed rapidly, which would require them to be predominantly programmed, whereas in Experiment 2(N ... |
Different conductive films are used as p‐GaN current spreading layers in order to explore photovoltaic action of InGaN/GaN double heterojunction solar cells. It is found that the devices with the 200‐nm thick indium‐tin oxide (ITO) transparent spreading layers shows a very small decrease in fill factor compared to thos... |
Oxonol and polyaminosterol drugs were examined as inhibitors of recombinant mouse AE1 and AE2 anion exchangers expressed in Xenopus laevis oocytes and were compared as inhibitors of AE1-mediated anion flux in red cells and in HL-60 cells that express AE2. The oxonols WW-781, diBA(5)C4, and diBA(3)C4 inhibited HL-60 cel... |
Introduction. The laryngeal chemoreflex may explain why prone sleeping increases the risk of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). Swallowing and arousal are crucial to prevent laryngeal chemoreflex stimulation. Our aim was to examine these reflexes and breathing responses in healthy neonates after pharyngeal infusion o... |
Thymoma is a rare tumor with epithelial origin, which represents about 50% of the malignant lesions of the anterior mediastinum. This neoplasm is often associated with myasthenia gravis (MG), in fact, about 30% of the patients with thymoma develops symptoms of myasthenia. The gold standard in the treatment of thymoma i... |
arguments amongst the urban elite over the poor law what they thought of the principles of 1834, how they related to their own labour needs, their economic ideas and their social ideology. This essay touches such questions only hesitantly; its concerns are still administrative. Norman McCord's essay seeks to relate the... |
Research on positional uncertainty of point is the basis of modeling uncertainty of line segment and polygon. The positional uncertainty indices of point have been widely studied in topography and metrology. In this paper, the exist entropy uncertainty interval of one-dimensional random variable is extended to the circ... |
Until comparatively recently the effort and the expense of interfacing to Ethernet has been considerable, both in terms of design time and the number of integrated circuits required. However, the appearance of VLSI chip sets from several manufacturers, which perform large parts of the lower level network protocols, has... |
Abstract: Intrasinusoidal infiltration (ISI) is a pattern of invasion that is rarely found on bone marrow (BM) biopsies, and is considered as a hallmark of splenic marginal zone cell lymphoma (SMZL). We analysed BM biopsies showing intrasinusoidal infiltration from 54 consecutive patients with different types of lymph... |
Abstract Ten Canoes (de Heer and Djigirr, 2006) is a collaboration between Rolf de Heer and members of the Ramingining community in eastern Arnhem Land. The film ostensibly has two time frames: a ‘mythical past’ which could be called ‘the Dreaming’ and the historical time in which the protagonist, Dayindi, lives, which... |
The amino-acids which form the building blocks of biological proteins are all left-handed molecules. By contrast, when these molecules are made in the laboratory equal numbers of the right and left-handed versions are made. This homochirality found in biological material may well be a prerequisite for the origin of lif... |
The North China Plain (NCP) is one of the places where the groundwater is most over-exploited in the world. Currently, our understanding on the spatiotemporal variability of the cones of depression in this region is fragmentary. This study intends to simulate the cones of depression in the shallow aquifer across the en... |
To assess whether antithrombotic prophylaxis with low-molecular-weight heparin effectively prevents recurrence of late pregnancy complications, 135 women with previous history of preeclampsia, hemolytic anemia, elevated liver enzymes and low platelet count syndrome, intrauterine fetal death, fetal growth restriction, o... |
This paper focuses on a prototype of an Internet of Things (IoT) system for the tracking and monitoring of intermodal containers throughout their whole shipment which may include heterogeneous methods (e.g., road transport and sea transport). The system accounts for a couple of devices for each container. The former is... |
Proteins have evolved over millions of years to mediate and carry-out biological processes efficiently. Directed evolution approaches have been used to genetically engineer proteins with desirable functions such as catalysis, mineralization, and target-specific binding. Next-generation sequencing technology offers the ... |
The air filled cavities of paranasal sinuses are thought by some to appear opportunistically in spatial “gaps” within the craniofacial complex. Anthropoid primates provide excellent natural experiments for testing this model, since not all species possess a full complement of paranasal sinuses. In this study, two gener... |
Arriving optimal solutions is one of the important tasks in engineering design. Many real-world design optimization problems involve multiple conflicting objectives. The design variables are of continuous or discrete in nature. In general, for solving Multi Objective Optimization methods weight method is preferred. In ... |
Abstract We provide a thorough historical account of the genus Pollenia Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 (Diptera: Polleniidae) in North America through published records beginning in 1849. From this, we have gleaned insights into their presence on this continent, how they were perceived as pests, and studies of their biology t... |
Characters who play or love jazz turn up in many films that aren’t about jazz itself. Hollywood loves the colorfully seedy milieu, and all that feeling jazz folk put into the music. In the 1950s, jazz folk turn up all over: in film noir, musical, sex comedy, cartoon, social-issue “problem picture,” and on TV. A represe... |
The classic (hereafter cold) and the labeled (hereafter hot) minimal models are powerful tools to investigate glucose metabolism. The cold model provides, from intravenous glucose tolerance test (IVGTT) data, indexes of glucose effectiveness (SG) and insulin sensitivity (SI) that measure the effect of glucose and insul... |
This research studied foaming of natural rubber (NR), epoxidized natural rubber (ENR) and ethylene vinyl acetate copolymer (EVA) blends vulcanizate. The contents of NR/ENR/EVA investigated were 60/10/30, 70/10/20, 50/20/30 and 60/20/20 to keep NR based to 70 and 80 % by weight whereas EVA contents were 20 and 30 % by w... |
In this study I will focus on three seminal thinkers within the philosophical tradition generally and, more particularly, within Jewish thought, not regularly mentioned together owing to the profound historical and intellectual distances between them. However, Moses Maimonides (1138–1204), Benedict de Spinoza (1632–77)... |
The reuse of software and related artifacts offers the potential for cost savings in various industries and has contributed to the development of the cyberinfrastructure that is used by the Earth science community. Developing measures that enable the assessment of software in terms of its potential reusability can cont... |
We describe the programmable spatial beam shaping of 100-kHz, 4-microJ amplified femtosecond pulses in a focal plane by wave-front modulation. Phase distributions are determined by a numerical iterative procedure. A nonpixelated optically addressed liquid-crystal light valve is used as a programmable wave-front tailori... |
Key management is the core to ensure the communication security of wireless sensor network. How to establish efficient key management in wireless sensor networks (WSN) is a challenging problem for the constrained energy, memory, and computational capabilities of the sensor nodes. Previous research on sensor network sec... |
This paper discusses the findings of a research project that examined the potential benefits of establishing farm savings accounts for specialty crop growers1. The primary goal of the project was to determine whether farm savings accounts would provide specialty crop growers with a useful tool for managing financial ri... |
Abstract An improved version of a numerical method for computing collision probabilities is developed for r-θ-z geometry. It is concluded from the results of numerous test cases that the method can be used to compute collision probabilities in this geometry with an accuracy better than 0.1% in typically <1 s (occasiona... |
Background: Smoking presents a significant challenge (heavy cost burden and impacting smoker’s morbidity/mortality). AMU is ideal to capture, treat, provide behavioural support and abstain smokers onsite. Annually, nearly half a million smokers are admitted to secondary care (Office for national statistics GB, 2017), c... |
Stakeholder engagement Group training in Very Brief Advice NRT prescribing Two smoking champions Results: The new model resulted in 325% uplift in smoking referrals. Additionally, an uplift in number of prescriptions created and patients prescribed NRT (205% & 208% respectively) was observed (from January) by March 20... |
In this study, the desired tracking control of the upper-limb exoskeleton robot system under model uncertainty and external disturbance is investigated. For this reason, an adaptive neural network using a backstepping control strategy is designed. The difference between the actual values of the upper-limb exoskeleton r... |
12087 Background: Olanzapine is used as an adjunct antiemetic in oncology as salvage therapy and in four-drug prophylaxis. Growing literature supports its effectiveness in initial three-drug prophylaxis in highly emetogenic chemotherapy (HEC). Methods: This prospective, multi-centre, open-label study evaluated the feas... |
Using meta-analytic procedures, this study involved a quantitative synthesis of the difference in physical activity among individuals with multiple sclerosis (MS) compared with nondiseased and diseased populations and then examined factors (i.e., moderators) that explain variation in the overall difference in physical ... |
An institution life cycle hypothesis is advanced to explain hospital behavior: boom and bust, diversification and divestiture, occasionally leading to closure or merger. Hospital diversification and its impact on the operating ratio are studied for 172 hospitals during the period 2002-2007. Diversification and operatin... |
251 Psoriasis has a huge socioeconomic impact on patients’ lives [1, 2]. Psoriasis can result in social discomfort and stigmatization due to its impact on aesthetics [3]. This study was conducted to assess the clinical severity, the physical and psychosocial disability and to analyse their interrelationship in psoriasi... |
In response to national technology mandates, schools across the United States have committed themselves to laptop technology programs as a way to encourage student-centered learning and critical thinking in collaborative classrooms. Most secondary English teachers in this study did not reject technology per se; rather,... |
In this paper, we present a concrete situation for which the computation of a time-delay law may yield some difficulties, particularly in the computation of the resulting focal pattern. These difficulties are directly related to the finite aperture of the elements of the array, that are generally of large size. We also... |
I read with great interest the very instructive review article by Angelidis and colleagues on ‘‘Ghrelin: New Insights Into Female Reproductive System.’’ Yet, I feel it is worthwhile to add that there is now clear evidence that exogenous ghrelin suppresses the secretion of the gonadotropins luteinizing hormone (LH) and ... |
Variability in upper ocean optical properties is often driven by changes in the particle pool. We investigated the effects of such changes by characterizing individual particles. For particles in natural assemblages, we used a combination of Mie theory and flow cytometry to determine diameter (D), complex refractive in... |
Commonly, patients with advanced malignancy often have symptoms of fatigue, tiredness and generalised body aches for which no therapy exists. Physicians find it challenging to palliate the intangible, commonly with undertreatment of these symptoms. Notably, hypogonadism (or low testosterone levels) is found in about tw... |
Based on a piecewise quadratic Lyapunov function, this paper investigates the piecewise robust Hinfin filtering design problem for fuzzy systems subject to time-varying uncertainties. It is shown that via suitable matrix linearization transformations and changes of variables, the design problem can be converted into a ... |
| Simulation Nets (SN) are Petri Nets extended for convenient modelling of discrete event simulation problems. The extensions included are zero testing, ring time for transitions, or-logic and net hierarchies. The tool SimNet accepts a text equivalence of SNs and performs the simulation implied by the SN model. Validat... |
A massive young star cluster, initially embedded in its parent molecular cloud, will spiral into the Galactic center from ≲30m pc during the lifetime of its most massive stars, if the combined total mass is ~106m6 M☉. On its way inward, the system loses most of its mass to the strong tidal field, until the dense cluste... |
For clusters where the topology consists of a fat-tree or more than one fat-tree combined into one subnet, there are several properties that the routing algorithms should support, beyond what exists today. One of the missing properties is that current fat-tree routing algorithm does not guarantee that each port on a mu... |
microdeletions than with either aneuploidy interphase descriptions or interphase cancer descriptions. They indicated that in only 5 of 14 challenges that they tried to score was the 80% consensus criteria met to allow scoring a challenge by the CAP resource committee. This number is much lower than that for the convent... |
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