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Patterns of hypothalamic stimulation causing pituitary hormone release cannot be studied directly in humans; one possible approach is to make inferences from the nature of the response of the target organ as revealed by patterns of pituitary hormones in blood. Replicated, precise assay of LH in frequently sampled blood... |
Clinical investigators have found that the hematopoietic system irreversibly damaged by cancer therapy with myeloablative high doses of chemoradiotherapy can be reconstituted by transplantation of autologous hematopoietic progenitors retrieved from peripheral blood. In comparison with patients transplanted with bone ma... |
Automated Breast Ultrasound (ABUS) is highly effective as breast cancer screening adjunct technology. Automation can greatly enhance the efficiency of the clinician sifting through the quantum of data in ABUS volumes to spot lesions. We have implemented a fully automatic generic algorithm pipeline for detection and cha... |
Disease-specific standards for directing patient management are becoming increasingly important. These standards, however, are often not followed because they are not sufficiently integrated into the clinical care setting. In this study we describe the development and evaluation of a Computer-Assisted Management Protoc... |
The technologies of deposition of protective coatings for different applications have been used for a long period of time in industrial companies in production and repair of various components of machines and mechanisms. The extensive application of these technologies requires the development and application in everyda... |
We present the complexity of marine-based IoT solutions, i.e. devices with sensors deployed in boats and vessels managed by the Fog and Cloud. The paper describes issues and challenges that arise in this specific environment and presents approaches taken to tackle them. The approach is demonstrated with the implementat... |
BACKGROUND/PURPOSE |
It is still controversial whether unilateral testicular torsion (TT) affects contralateral testis. The authors wanted to evaluate contralateral testicular damage in a rat model by the serum inhibin B levels, which is suggested as a marker of Sertoli cell function and spermatogenesis. |
METHODS |
Fifty peripubertal male Wistar Albino rats were divided into 5 groups each containing 10 rats. Surgery was conducted under intraperitoneal 1-shot ketamine (50 mg/kg) anesthesia. Torsion-detorsion, torsion-detorsion-orchiectomies, orchiectomies, and sham operations were performed on the right testicle through a midline ... |
RESULTS |
Serum inhibin B levels expressed as mean +/- SD were 108.233 +/- 21.296 pg/mL for group 1, 54.065 +/- 16.910 pg/mL for group 2, 74.195 +/- 2.779 pg/mL for group 3, 108.335 +/- 26.078 pg/mL for group 4, and 107.645 +/- 4.705 pg/mL for group 5. Inhibin B levels in group 2 and group 3 were different from group 1, group 4,... |
CONCLUSIONS |
The serum inhibin B levels decrease after unilateral TT reflecting contralateral testicular damage. Orchiectomy to prevent contralateral testicular damage after TT may not be effective after critical period. Measurement of inhibin B levels to evaluate contralateral testicular damage after unilateral TT is more effectiv... |
In this paper, we will present a big bang-big crunch optimization (BB-BC) based approach for the design of an interval type-2 fuzzy PID controller. The implemented global optimization algorithm has a low computational cost and a high convergence speed. As a consequence, the BB-BC method is a very efficient search algor... |
The teacher-librarian should be the most effective weapon for collaborative teaching and learning within a school. Teacher-librarians do struggle to find time to effectively plan for the cooperative teaching and learning activities. Often school libraries run their own website as they struggle to offer a digital 24/7 l... |
The press of World Wars I and II depicted patriotic mothers as Spartan-like in their support of the nation's war effort. During the Vietnam War, another maternal image emerged to share cultural space with the Spartan mother, that of the goddess Thetis who objected to her son's participation in the Trojan War. This alte... |
INTRODUCTION |
White matter hypodensities of presumed vascular origin, are recognized as an important cause of morbidity with established clinical and cognitive consequences. Nonetheless, many doubts remain on its physiopathology. Our goal is to clarify the potential role of carotid atherosclerosis and other vascular risk factors in ... |
MATERIAL AND METHODS |
We included patients that underwent CT brain scan and neurosonologic evaluation within a one-month period. Full assessment of vascular risks factors was performed. We seek to find independent associations between white matter hypodensities of presumed vascular origin, carotid intima-media thickness and vascular risk fa... |
RESULTS |
472 patients were included, mean age was 67.32 (SD: 14.75), 274 (58.1%) were male. The independent predictors of white matter hypodensities of presumed vascular origin were age (OR: 1.067, 95% IC: 1.049 - 1.086, p < 0.001) and hypertension (OR: 1.726, 95% IC: 1.097 - 2.715, p = 0.018). No association was found between ... |
DISCUSSION |
Only age and hypertension proved to have an independent association with white matter hypodensities of presumed vascular origin. Carotid atherosclerosis, evaluated by IMT and the degree of carotid artery stenosis, showed no association with white matter hypodensities of presumed vascular origin. Since atherosclerosis i... |
CONCLUSION |
Age and hypertension seem to be the main factors in the development of white matter hypodensities of presumed vascular origin. No association was found between carotid atherosclerosis and white matter hypodensities of presumed vascular origin.[Hemorrhagic surgery in two Jehova's witness children refusing programmed aut... |
We report two cases of haemorrhagic surgery in a 6-year-old and 16-year-old girl, respectively, whose parents were Jehovah's witnesses and therefore opposed to preoperative blood donation, but accepting intraoperative blood salvage. Erythropoietin and intravenous iron were administered preoperatively to increase red ce... |
The European Union (EU) has modest but promising capacities to assist member states overwhelmed by disaster through its Civil Protection Mechanism. The EU also routinely sends civil and military missions to hotspots outside EU territory. But these capacities do not suffice in the face of transboundary crises: threats t... |
Current practices in the area of business intelligence (BI) and business performance management (BPerM) confirm the need for better integration of BI and business processes (BPs). This is especially the case with operational BI that aims to unify strategic and tactical decision making, by integrating BI solutions with ... |
The Gos Phil provides a series of observations on practices of Valentinian Christianity. Since sacraments appear prominently, scholarly investigations of the sacramental system abound. Segelberg, for example, suggests that there are five sacraments or mysteries in Gos Phil: baptism, chrism, eucharist, redemption, and b... |
A comprehensive climatic analysis has been carried out in the Mondy high-altitude station in the Eastern Sayan Mountains based on long-term data for the period 1948-2020. The anomalies of the average values of air temperature, atmospheric pressure, the amount of precipitation and the values of the fluxes of reflected r... |
The term ovarian suspensory ligament appears ambiguous when human adult anatomy textbooks are compared with human embryology or with general mammalian anatomy textbooks. The term ovarian suspensory ligament in laboratory rodents and domestic animals indicates homologous structures during foetal (the cranial mesonephric... |
I would like to summarize the most important issues that we discovered from the people we interviewed for our study. Patient environments are increasingly important. Patient control and patient amenity are paramount in treating cancer. High-tech equipment is going to be the driving force of the future. Telecommunicatio... |
Multivariate disease mapping enriches traditional disease mapping studies by analysing several diseases jointly. This yields improved estimates of the geographical distribution of risk from the diseases by enabling borrowing of information across diseases. Beyond multivariate smoothing for several diseases, several oth... |
Purpose |
The purpose of this paper is to investigate gender differences in employment status trajectories of young Europeans during their initial labour market experience, and the way in which they are affected by some labour market institutions. |
Design/methodology/approach |
The empirical analysis is based on EU-SILC longitudinal data (waves 2006–2012), and focusses on young people aged 16–34. Monthly information on self-declared employment statuses for 36 months is used to define “employment status trajectories”. Young people are observed in two different phases: the first three years aft... |
Findings |
Results show that, in the first phase, women and men face on average the same difficulties in entering the labour market. When controlling for the presence of children, non-mothers have higher chances than men to enter rapidly and successfully into the labour market, whereas young mothers have the same chances. In cont... |
Originality/value |
The paper contributes to the literature in several ways. First, it takes a broader perspective on youth labour market integration by considering two phases of individuals’ initial working life. Second, it combines an explicit attention to the first “significant” employment experience with a focus on individual trajecto... |
Nebulized Antibiotics: Epithelial Lining Fluid Concentrations Overestimate Lung Tissue Concentrations. |
In this issue of Anesthesiology, Dhanani et al. provide evidence that the tobramycin lung interstitial space fluid concentrations measured after a single 400-mg aerosol dose are twice those measured after the equivalent intravenous dose. Tobramycin interstitial space fluid concentrations were measured using samples obt... |
The accuracy of spectral recovery is directly affected by the spectral filter. Clarifying which parameters of the color filter will affect the spectral reconstruction accuracy can help us select the appropriate color filter and improve the reconstruction accuracy. Gaussian curve is used to simulate the spectral sensiti... |
Die stacking enables significant performance leaps in computing capability and memory/processor integration. Conventional die stacking uses solder interconnects which suffer from several scaling limitations. A new die to die interconnect technology, hybrid bonding, removes many of these limitations and allows several o... |
The root of schema violations for rdf data generated from (semi-)structured data, often derives from mappings, which are repeatedly applied and specify how an rdf dataset is generated. The dbpedia dataset, which derives from Wikipedia infoboxes, is no exception. To mitigate the violations, we proposed in previous work ... |
The aim of this study was to compare the width of the levator aponeurosis and tarsal plate in different levels grossly and histologically. Twelve eyelids of 6 Korean adult cadavers were used. Ten eyelids were dissected, and 2 were prepared for histologic study. Widths of the tarsal plate at its lower border, midheight,... |
OBJECTIVE |
The population-based University of Washington Twin Registry (UWTR) was used to examine (1) genetic influences on chronobiology and (2) whether these genetic factors influence alcohol-use phenotypes. |
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