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Decision Making in Gastroenterology. Second edition Joel S. Levine. 495 pages. St. Louis, Missouri: B. C. Decker; 1992. $69.00. Many books have been written on the subject of gastrointestinal disorders. Indeed, it might be argued that we have too many textbooks on general gastroenterology to make it possible for a new ... |
Many safety applications rely on multi-hop broadcasting to disseminate safety messages. In most existing multi-hop broadcasting protocols, one next forwarder is selected through contention among forwarder candidates based on their different waiting times. In this paper, we first analyze the latency and collision of the... |
Photovoice collaborations are designed to promote critical consciousness and advocate for change. People who inject drugs (PWID) are systematically silenced from advocacy for fear of being “outed.” Photovoice protocols that prohibit identifying photography provide a safer alternative; however, it is not known how these... |
This paper presents an active disturbance rejection control (ADRC) method to mitigate subsynchronous resonance (SSR) in a doubly-fed induction generator (DFIG)-based wind farm connected to series compensated transmission lines. First, the frequency of the SSR and its influencing factors are analyzed, and the limitation... |
ABSTRACT This article seeks to identify traces of language contact between speakers of Australian languages and speakers of Austronesian languages other than Macassans. I put forward evidence for lexical borrowing into northern Australian languages from Austronesian languages in South and East Sulawesi, Maluku and Timo... |
Delirium, also known as acute brain failure, is a medical condition characterized by recent onset of confusion, fluctuating awareness, disorganized thought, with memory and attention impairment. Post-operative delirium (POD) generally arises 1 to 3 days after surgery, in 25-37% of the hospitalized patients and in > 65%... |
Excessive dietary magnesium (Mg) (.3, .5, and .9% additions to a corn-soy basal diet) fed to broiler chicks was found to be cathartic and significantly decreased 28-day body weight, significantly increased mortality, and induced leg abnormalities. Increasing dietary phosphorus (P) significantly ameliorated the detrimen... |
With the advent of globalization, urbanization and modernization, water degradation has become an major concern today. Farming in India is still done as per traditional method that requires plenty of usage of water. Drip system has resolved this issue to some extent. But this system has suffered with overhead of contin... |
the soil. The temperature sensor continuously monitors the temperature and if it is above threshold value then spraying system will turn on which will reduce crop temperature.Central mechanisms of acute ANG II modulation of arterial baroreflex control of renal sympathetic nerve activity. |
Short-term intravenous infusion of angiotensin II (ANG II) into conscious rabbits reduces the range of renal sympathetic nerve activity (RSNA) by attenuating reflex disinhibition of RSNA. This action of ANG II to attenuate the arterial baroreflex range is exaggerated when ANG II is directed into the vertebral circulati... |
Tyrosine phosphorylation of the NMDA receptor has been implicated in the regulation of the receptor channel. We investigated the effects of transient (15 min) global ischemia on tyrosine phosphorylation of NMDA receptor subunits NR2A and NR2B, and the interaction of NR2 subunits with the SH2 domain of phosphatidylinosi... |
Turbo codes not only achieve near Shannon-capacity performance, but also have decoders with modest complexity, which is crucial for implementation. So far efficient architectures for decoding of turbo codes have been proposed that are suitable for sequential processing. In this paper a novel parallel processing archite... |
In this paper we overview a number of methods for the identification of control system sensor and actuator errors and for correct plant state estimation for feedback control when such errors are present. The methods viewed deal with additive and multiplicative (gain change) sensor and actuator errors. Additive sensor a... |
We show how the colloidal-probe technique, which is based on force measurements made with the atomic force microscope, can be used to accurately determine the charging parameters of water-solid interfaces. Besides yielding accurate values of the double-layer or diffuse-layer potential, the method also allows reliable d... |
This paper presents a test for fitting the marginal error density of a stationary long memory error random field in spatial nonparametric regression models, where the one dimensional covariate process is also assumed to be a long memory random field, independent of the error random field. The proposed test is based on ... |
In recent years there has been a lot of discussion on global warming and climate change and its implications for social development – an area that Mohan has devoted his life to. It is now accepted that climate change is real and its impacts will be felt across different sectors ranging from water resources to industrie... |
There are only two possible signers in designated verifier signature(DVS) scheme, thus anyone else can not know who is the real signer according to signature/message pairs. Lipmaa et al. discovered delegatability attack on almost all existing designated verifier signature according to original definition of DVS, and la... |
Technology scaling is having an increasingly detrimental effect on microprocessor reliability, with increased variability and higher susceptibility to errors. At the same time, as integration of chip multiprocessors increases, power consumption is becoming a significant bottleneck that could threaten their growth. To d... |
Two general types of clonal chromosome abnormality are observed in de novo acute myeloid leukemia (AML): the unbalanced aberrations with visible gain or loss of chromosome material and the balanced aberrations without such visible gain or loss. AML can be induced by therapy with cytostatic drugs and radiation. The alky... |
Progressive Familial Intrahepatic Cholestasis type 2 (PFIC2) is a rare cholestatic disorder diagnosed in infancy or childhood that can lead to severe hepatic fibrosis and liver failure. Mutations in the ABCB11 gene result in a deficiency of the bile salt export protein (BSEP) and accumulation of bile inside the hepatoc... |
Abstract The transport sector is one of the most polluting sectors in the world and 29.8 % of all greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in Latvia come from it. Given this sector’s importance, it is surprising that the external costs of transport are often measured only from the air pollution perspective, mainly CO2 emissions ... |
Growing out of a child’s cognitive developmental history, formal operations become established at Cognitive development about the age of 12–15 years. Reflected in his ability to reason Adolescence hypothetically and independently on concrete states of affairs, these structures may be represented by reference to Logic c... |
Cyclooxygenase‐2 is suggested to play an important role in pulmonary inflammation response. N‐acetylcysteine (NAC) is an antioxidant with scavenging action against reactive oxygen species (ROS). This study aims to investigate whether lipopolysaccharide (LPS) induces COX‐2 expression through ROS generation and NAC inhib... |
Even casual users of technology collect, transform, store, and share personal data on networked devices and services. This creates substantial security and privacy challenges for system designers. Social networking sites, such as Facebook, must negotiate conflicting requests, made by different users and advertisers, to... |
Due to economic, environmental and political reasons, there is an increasing demand for zero-emission vehicles. With the wide-scale deployment of electric car systems, a variety of parties with conflicting interests will be interacting, and there will be incentives for dishonest behavior. As a consequence, new technica... |
A method to enumerate labile hydrogens in all constituents of molecular ensemble of natural organic matter (NOM) based on our previously developed simple hydrogen/deuterium (H/D) exchange (electrospray ionization (ESI) ion source (Kostyukevich et al. Anal. Chem. 2013, 85, 5330) and ultra-high-resolution Fourier transfo... |
Optical absorption due to surface plasmon resonances in ensembles of gold nanorods (Au NRs) depends strongly on the nanorod separation and orientation. Here, we study the dispersion of polystyrene-functionalized Au NRs in polystyrene (PS) thin films using UV-visible (UV-vis) spectroscopy and transmission electron micro... |
In this experimental study, cultivar of Granny Smith apple slices were dried by using convective hot air tray dryer. Before drying process, the pretreatment methods with ascorbic acid and citric acid solution (0.5% + 0.5%), blanching (80°C and 1 min) and potassium carbonate solution (4%) were carried out. Control sampl... |
One hundred and fifty-six patients referred for barium meal with follow-up examination, participated in a placebo-controlled blind assessment of the effects of domperidone against placebo, on gastric motility and emptying. None of the patients had organic obstruction, had undergone previous gastrointestinal surgery or ... |
Objectives: To evaluate the role of cutting balloon angioplasty in children with pulmonary artery stenosis. Background: Pulmonary artery stenoses can be either congenital or secondary to postoperative scar formation. Isolated multiple small‐vessel pulmonary artery stenoses are very rare. No surgical procedures for thei... |
The rapid rise in antimicrobial resistance (AR) has posed a real and imminent threat to our ability to treat bacterial infections. As antimicrobial utilization has been linked to AR, the promotion of antimicrobial stewardship (AS) practices has been launched to the forefront of national and international efforts to com... |
OBJECTIVE |
To explore the relationship between response of primary tumor and positive axillary lymph node to neoadjuvant chemotherapy and examine its correlation with breast cancer distant disease-free survival (DDFS). |
METHODS |
The clinical data of 678 needle biopsy proved node positive breast cancer patients on neoadjuvant chemotherapy were analyzed retrospectively. |
RESULTS |
The median follow-up period was 45 (6-143) months. The 4-year DDFS in group A (ypT0/is ypN0),B (ypT0/is ypN+), C (ypT ≥ 1mi ypN0) and D (ypT ≥ 1mi ypN+) were 96.4%, 85.7%, 86.7% and 80.2% respectively. As compared with group A, the relative risk ratios of groups B, C and D were 2.32, 2.09 and 4.07 (P = 0.006).Significa... |
CONCLUSION |
Pathological response of both primary tumor and positive axillary node are prognostic and crucial for evaluating the efficacy of neoadjuvant chemotherapy.Risk Factors for Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve Neuropraxia Postthyroidectomy |
Objective. Despite preservation of the recurrent laryngeal nerve (RLN), transient vocal cord paralysis (VCP) occurs after 1.2% to 10.9% of thyroidectomies. The objective of this study was to study risk factors for transient VCP after thyroidectomy. Study Design. Prospective cohort study. Setting. Academic teaching hosp... |
A series of new mixed-conducting ceramics Sm 0.9 Sr 0.1 Al 1- x Co x O 3- δ (SSAC, x =0.2, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6) with perovskite structure were prepared by sintering the precursor powders derived from organic gel process. The effects of sintering temperature and Co doping concentration on the crystal structure, phase composit... |
The prevalence of the symptoms at disease onset reported by close informants, in an unselected group of demented elderly, is presented in this study. Of the 174 dementia cases, 98 were Alzheimer disease (AD), 41 were vascular dementia (VaD), and 35 were other dementias. In 42% of AD subjects, single memory deficit was ... |
Tautomeric properties of acetoacetyl fluoride, CH(3)-C(O)-CH(2)-C(O)-F, were studied by IR (gas phase), Raman (liquid and solid), and NMR spectroscopy (neat liquid), gas electron diffraction (GED), X-ray crystallography, and quantum chemical calculations. The keto-enol tautomer possesses a much higher vapour pressure t... |
Summary: Increased oxidative stress has been postulated as one of the main mechanisms underlying stunned myocardium, and may play an important role in and during development of heart failure. Pharmacological interventions may attenuate or prevent detrimental effects of oxygen free radicals on the myocardium. Nebivolol ... |
In this paper, a novel and facile synthetic method of 3-mercaptopropionic acid functionalized copper nanoclusters with aggregation-induced emission (AIE) induced by Cu2+ (Cu2+@MPA-Cu NCs) was developed by a one-pot reaction as a fluorescent probe for the detection of sulfide ion (S2-). The prepared Cu2+@MPA-Cu NCs beha... |
A series of mesoporous TiO2 supports were synthesized by the sol-gel template method by using different surfactant and Au/TiO2 catalysts were prepared by the solution reduction method. The catalytic oxidation of CO was taken as the probe reaction for comparing the catalyst activity. Wide-angle XRD patterns and N2 adsor... |
Wing rock is a highly nonlinear phenomenon in which the aircraft undergoes limit cycle roll oscillations at high angles of attack. A single neuron control scheme for suppression of wing rock of slender delta wings is presented. The effectiveness of the control scheme is demonstrated through software simulation and real... |
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Clinical care and therapeutic trials in idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIM) require accurate and consistent assessment of cutaneous involvement. The Cutaneous Assessment Tool (CAT) was designed to measure skin activity and damage in IIM. We describe the development and inter-rater reliability of the CAT, and the f... |
METHODS |
The CAT includes 10 activity, 4 damage and 7 combined lesions. Thirty-two photographic slides depicting IIM skin lesions were assessed by 11 raters. One hundred and twenty-three children were assessed by 11 paediatric rheumatologists at 10 centres. Inter-rater reliability was assessed using simple agreements and intra-... |
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