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Patients were taking a mean of 2.4 antihypertensive medications. SBP level was significantly correlated with the number of antihypertensive medication challenges reported (p < 0.01). While those reporting lower medication adherence also reported significantly more medication challenges, mean SBP was not significantly ... |
Conclusion: |
African Americans with uncontrolled BP often require more intensive antihypertensive regimens. However, such regimens may be associated with more medication challenges that may adversely impact adherence and BP control. |
Using nonstationary fuzzy sets to improve the tractability of fuzzy association rules |
Modern organisations now collect very large volumes of data about customers, suppliers and other factors which may impact upon their business. There is a clear need to be able to mine this data and present it to decision makers in a clear and coherent manner. Fuzzy association rules are a popular method to identifying ... |
ABSTRACT Until the beginning of 2020, the Sahel was something of an exception with respect to international rivalry between jihadists. This came to an end when violent clashes involving supporters of Al-Qaeda and those affiliated with the Islamic State were recorded in central Mali. The violent escalation that has take... |
In this study, the physicomechanical properties and morphology evolution of irradiated (styrene butadiene rubber)/(devulcanized waste rubber)/(organically modified montmorillonite) nanocomposites were realized. The improvement in the physicomechanical properties provides a possible mechanism on how organically modified... |
8 www.doctorsdigest.net 1. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act extends Medicare quality-reporting incentive payments for physicians. 2. Physicians in small independent practices may pursue other business options, such as becoming part of larger physician groups or employees of larger organizations, to cope w... |
Jaime Vargas for their thoughtful comments on an earlier version of this paper. The opinions expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official position of the Inter-American Development Bank. Foreword This paper is important because it seeks to enlighten a complex and often polemical... |
We consider the problem of discriminating general quantum operations. Using the definition of mapping operator to vector, and by some calculating skills, we derive an explicit formulation as a new bound on the minimum-error probability for ambiguous discrimination between arbitrary m quantum operations. This formulatio... |
In 2003, Coupland and John proposed an approach to type-2 fuzzy arithmetic using the representation theorem. While this approach was sound, it was conceded to be computationally expensive and required considerable preliminary calculations. We present a more computationally viable approach which we believe will make typ... |
The paper can demonstrate that the directivity test of RFID tag using GTEM cell has a good agreement with the test in free space, by theoretical analysis and mathematical calculation. At the same time, we do the directivity test with GTEM cell and UHF RFID tag, and can finally verify the feasibility of GTEM cell in doi... |
The goal of this project was to examine the effects of lip rounding on the production of voice onset time in voiceless bilabial stops in children acquiring Hungarian as their first language. The duration of voice onset time in stops followed by or embedded between high back rounded phonologically long vowels with promi... |
We prove almost global well-posedness for quasilinear strongly coupled wave-Klein-Gordon systems with small and localized data in two space dimensions. We assume only mild decay on the data at infinity as well as minimal regularity. We systematically investigate all the possible quadratic null form type quasilinear str... |
This article discusses an express control method that allows in situ measurements of the thermal conductivity of insulation materials. Three samples of the most common thermal insulation materials, such as polyurethane, extruded polystyrene, and expanded polystyrene, were studied. Additionally, optical and organic glas... |
In this paper, a local radial basis function collocation method is proposed for the numerical solution of inverse space‐wise dependent heat source problems. Multiquadric radial basis function is used for spatial discretization. The method accuracy is tested in terms of absolute root mean square and relative root mean s... |
A panel of eleven monoclonal antibodies of the IgG and IgM class were developed against the HM 175 strain of the Hepatitis A virus. Immunoglobulin specificity for the Hepatitis A virus was determined and the antibodies were applied toward the development of an antigen capture assay linked to a nucleic acid amplificatio... |
Nonspecific target engagement by test compounds and purported chemical probes is a significant source of assay interference and promiscuous bioactivity in high‐throughput screening (HTS) and chemical biology. Most counter‐screens for thiol‐reactive compounds utilize mass spectrometry or fluorescence detection, as well ... |
Knowledge and human liberation are epochal challenges and a key question here is what the meaning of knowledge and the meaning of human liberation are. This article argues that knowledge means not only knowledge of self, society and nature as conceived within the predominant dualistic logic of modernity but also knowle... |
Historically, the prokaryotic genome was assumed to consist of a single circular replicon. However, as more microbial genome sequencing projects are completed, it is becoming clear that multipartite genomes comprised of more than one chromosome are not unusual among prokaryotes. Chromosomes are distinguished from plasm... |
Using the bilateral carotid artery occlusion model of cerebral ischemia in the gerbil, we studied the effect of moderate hypothermia (30 to 31 degrees C) on the postischemic production of prostanoids (cyclooxygenase pathway) and leukotrienes (lipoxygenase pathway) and accompanying changes in cerebral edema formation. H... |
Advanced variable-rate spray technology, which applies pesticides based on real-time scanning laser rangefinder measurements of plant presence, size, and density, was developed and retrofitted to existing sprayers. Experiments were conducted to characterize the application of four programmed spray rates (0.03, 0.05, 0.... |
SUCCESS in coping with the problems facing modern medicine depends primarily on (1) choosing candidates for medicine with good minds, moral and intellectual integrity, high goals of service, and sustained enthusiasm; and (2) providing them an education in the fundamentals that will, while keeping alive their ultimate g... |
Identity masking methods have been developed in recent years for use in multiple applications aimed at protecting privacy. There is only limited work, however, targeted at evaluating effectiveness of methods–with only a handful of studies testing identity masking effectiveness for human perceivers. Here, we employed hu... |
Querying time-stamped data in clinical databases is an essential step in the actuation of many decision-support rules. Since previous methods of temporal data management are not readily transferable among legacy databases, developers must create de novo querying methods that allow temporal integration of a decision-sup... |
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The process of organ donation and retreat is complex and involves a high cost for hospitals that do it. |
PURPOSE |
to survey the expenses with the process of donation and retreat of organs. |
METHODS |
retrospective study based on medical records of 32 donors, admitted in the Search Organs Organisation do Instituto Dante Pazzanese de Cardiologia, during the period from January to December of 1999. |
RESULTS |
the process is complex and involves a special structure as well as 24 hours of activities, making it costly. Expenses were related with the following items: human resources, permanent material, public utilities, complementary examinations, depreciation of equipment and transportation. A comparison with the values reimb... |
CONCLUSION |
the total cost was high than the reimbursement provided by SUS, showing the necessity of research about cost of procedures and the reinvestment margin.Analysis of operation regions of an isolated bidirectional dual active bridge DC-DC converter with LC coupling |
This paper presents a project methodology of the series LC tank for an isolated bidirectional dual active bridge converter. The inductance and capacitance of the LC tank are calculated by taking into account the behavior of power transfer, AC side rms current, power factor and voltages on L and C. This analysis defines... |
This paper presents a method for intelligent backtracking in CLP Our method integrates a depth rst intelligent backtracking algorithm developed for logic programming with an original constraint satisfaction algorithm which naturally generates sets of con icting constraints We prove that if CLP is assumed to cover stric... |
A B ST R A C T Gulf heavy crude oil samples were separated into four fractions of saturates, mono-, di- and polyaromatics by elution open column chromatography. Alumina and a mixture of equal amount of silica and alumina stationary phases were separately used to study the effect of these stationary phases on the separa... |
OBJECTIVEImage-guided stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) was applied to a case of spinal epidural cavernous hemangioma in the thoracic spine. This report demonstrates the potential for spinal SRS in treating diseases that have previously required extensive invasive surgery. CLINICAL PRESENTATIONA 27-year-old woman with ga... |
Specification-driven monitoring is a novel technique for systematically analyzing the functional and temporal behavior of a system starting from specification to the implementation with the help of monitoring. This paper briefly shows the method and the tools belonging to it. The main part comprises a measurement study... |
To generate high-current hard-to-ionize elements such as B+, a hybrid ion source that combines electron cyclotron resonance and thermal surface ionization, which is called a high-temperature surface microwave source (HSMS), is under development. A high-temperature hot surface (2000°) and microwave heating are the essen... |
Recently, there has been an exciting revival in the history of education, centering on the origins and growth of urban schooling. Most attention has focused on the late-nineteenth/early twentieth century, in the studies of Marvin Lazerson, Joel Spring, Raymond Callahan, Edward Krug, Lawrence Cremin, and Colin Greer, bu... |
Chapter 6 presents the singularity theory in formal detail. The theory is pitched at a sufficiently general level to handle in a unified way the notions of denotation, extension, and truth. The central notions of semantic pathology and singularity are defined, and a procedure for determining the semantic value of a pat... |
A well-formed solid electrolyte interface (SEI) is critical for achieving long-term cycling stability in lithium-ion batteries (LIBs). However, the SEI remains the poorly understood component in LIBs especially under dynamic conditions. Here, scanning electrochemical microscopy (SECM) was applied to study the spontaneo... |
SQL Server 2012 introduces a new index type called a column store index and new query operators that efficiently process batches of rows at a time. These two features together greatly improve the performance of typical data warehouse queries, in some cases by two orders of magnitude. This paper outlines the design of c... |
Rattan Calamus spp. is a high commercial value palm from the subfamily Calamoideae the primary source for cane in the well-developed rattan industry. Most studies on rattan have focused on its biodiversity, distribution, quality, strength, physical, mechanical, and morphological properties and genetics. Still, only a f... |
AIM |
Caries experience assessment in adult patients with dental fluorosis living in endemic area and in the region with normal fluoride concentration in drinking water; assessment of correlation between DMFT index and elementary composition of mixed saliva in adult patients with dental fluorosis. |
MATERIAL AND METHODS |
Two groups of patients took part in the clinical study. Group 1 involved 33 persons with dental fluorosis living in endemic area. In group 2 there were 31 persons with dental fluorosis living in region with normal fluoride concentration in drinking water. DMFT index was calculated. Enamel resistance to acids and remine... |
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