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Systemic sclerosis is an autoimmune connective tissue disorder characterized by microvascular obliterations of the skin, lungs, and heart. Pulmonary hypertension is a potentially life-threatening complication of systemic sclerosis and coronary angiography is indicated for diagnosing this complication. A 79-year-old wom... |
Teaching non‐science majors science is a fundamental requirement in most universities. Many universities include a laboratory or experiential experience for each student as part of their science course. The Science of cooking (biology, chemistry and biochemistry) style course is becoming a popular method to bring scien... |
The purpose of this investigation was to delineate the effect of imposed mean pressure levels on the open-loop dynamic response characteristics of the carotid sinus baroceptors in dogs. The experimental design consisted of measuring the intrasinus pressure and the gross baroceptor nerve activity while forcing the isola... |
Cases of industrial accidents occur as a result of corporations ignoring or not caring about the terms and conditions of occupational health and safety (OHS) according to Law Number 1 of 1970 concerning Occupational Safety (UUKK). The purpose of this research is to analyze the responsibility of corporate criminal liabi... |
Calcium yttrium silicoborate glasses doped with different Nd3+ ion concentrations have been prepared using the melt quenching technique at 1400 °C. Physical, optical and luminescence properties of glass samples were investigated. The density and molar volume measurements were carried out at room temperature. The result... |
Four cases are presented that illustrate the unusual occurrence of both myasthenia gravis and multiple sclerosis in the same patient. The manifestations of myasthenia gravis in our patients included fatigability, electromyographically demonstrated decrementing responses, incrementing responses, or posttetanic potentiat... |
At present there are no reliable statistics on the relative prevalences of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) in Spain. In a report of the first three years' experience in an STD diagnostic centre between 1977 and 1979 a total of 879 patients (534 men adn 345 women) were seen. They mainly consisted of university stud... |
A novel algorithm is proposed in this paper for accurate identification of single-breaths and respiration patterns. The algorithm works on normal breathing segments of Ribcage (RC) and Abdomen (ABD) records and consists of three stages. In the first stage, normal breathing segments are pre-processed by applying a polyn... |
The online management and training of information for laboratories has rarely been discussed in the traditional education system design. However, it plays a vital role in informatization and automation of electrical power laboratory. Using PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP), we have designed and developed an online mana... |
ABSTRACT Anger is a common affective experience, yet it is relatively understudied in the substance use treatment literature. This study explored anger as a predictor of treatment outcomes in a large sample of adolescents. Data were extracted from the Drug Abuse Treatment Outcome Study for Adolescents (DATOS-A). An ang... |
The Clock-Drawing Test (CDT) is a brief, relatively time-efficient, easy to administer at bedside, and well-proven cognitive screening test that assesses a broad range of cognitive abilities in stroke, delirium, and dementia. However, challenges of comprehensive therapeutic outcome evaluations in schizophrenia can also... |
Two existing selection procedures are distinguished, exemplified in the Dutch and German trait taxonomies. The characteristic features of the two approaches are identified in two independently constructed Italian taxonomies. We test the two approaches for their effects on the resulting trait structures and place the fi... |
This study was conducted with the objective of providing the pattern of cancer distribution from a hospital based tumour registry at CMH, Multan, in comparison with patterns from other National Studies. The retrospective study of malignant tumours recorded at the pathology department from 2002-2007 featured analysis in... |
Abstract: Multi-scale/multi-level geographic object-based image analysis (MS-GEOBIA) methods are becoming widely-used in remote sensing because single-scale/single-level (SS-GEOBIA) methods are often unable to obtain an accurate segmentation and classification of all land use/land cover (LULC) types in an image. Howeve... |
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This psychometric study explores the Portuguese version of the Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Checklist (PCL-5). It aims to clarify the best-fitting latent structure among competing PTSD models (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-fifth edition [DSM-5], Dysphoria, Dysphoric Arousal, Anhedonia, E... |
METHOD |
Psychometric analyses were conducted in a sample from the general population of firefighters (N = 446), except the temporal stability, which was tested in a subsample of 100 participants. |
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The models presented significant differences in a global fit. The Hybrid model presented the best-fitting structure, but the DSM-5 model showed more favorable reliability and convergent validity in Confirmatory Factor Analyses. The DSM-5 model also proved to be internally consistency, temporally stable, and presented c... |
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The Portuguese version of PCL-5 is reliable and valid. The findings suggest the appropriateness of the DSM-5 model to assess PTSD symptomatology, encouraging its use in clinical, and research settings.Abstract 4624: Should genetic testing for cancer predisposition be standard-of-care for women with invasive breast canc... |
Background: Currently, genetic testing is recommended to those patients diagnosed with breast cancer at a young age, with triple negative disease, Ashkenazi ancestry and/or a significant family history of breast, ovarian, prostate or pancreatic cancer. This precludes the opportunity to apply precision medicine approach... |
Three types of carbon dioxide-baited traps, i.e., the Centers for Disease Control Miniature Light Trap without light, the BioGents (BG) Sentinel Mosquito Trap (BG-Sentinel) and the Mosquito Magnet® Liberty Plus were compared with human landing collections in their efficiency in collecting Anopheles (Nyssorhynchus) aqua... |
In adults, a number of measures to reduce perioperative blood loss have been established. These techniques serve to reduce patients' exposure to homologous blood. Most adults are concerned with this issue especially since many patients became infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) during the 1980s through exp... |
Network Intrusion Detection Systems (NIDS) are a critical component in any security system and their role is to monitor traffic on a network, looking for suspicious activity (e.g. attacks, unauthorized activities). Neural networks have become an increasingly popular solution for implementing network intrusion detection... |
This research proposes a novel topology to satisfy the requirements of Harmonic suppressing and reactive power compensation while designing HAPF. An effective strategy was developed to observe behaviour of compensation capacitors and passive filters placement with APF. Moreover, this study proposes a method in order to... |
In this research we implemented a technique for resolving differential diagnosis (DD) in medical disease expert systems (ES). This was achieved by collecting additional information from users during diagnosis which help to correctly decide which new rule will be asserted to the working memory before feedback can be ded... |
The article is devoted to the topical problem of interaction between mass consciousness of Russians and Buddhism in Transbaikalia. The object of the study is the spread of Buddhism in Transbaikalia. The subject of the study is the transformation of Buddhist images in the mass consciousness of the Russian population of ... |
Prisoners turn to hunger strikes, as performances of extreme bodily vulnerability, when formal modes of appeal are foreclosed. A hunger strike's efficacy depends, in part, on the prisoner's self-starvation being read as a sign of exploitation, as morally implicating the prison and state (Annas, 1982; Hauser, 2012). In ... |
Fifteen patients with squamous type of metastatic cervical cancer were treated with a sequential combination of bleomycin (BLM) and mitomycin‐C(MMC) as follows: 5 mg of BLM daily for 7 days followed by a single injection of 10 mg of MMC. After 1 week of rest, this course was repeated two to five times depending on the ... |
We have tested whether the slowing in velocity of shortening that occurs in mammalian smooth muscle under conditions of high force output and dephosphorylated myosin light chains is due to an internal load presented by non- or slowly cycling cross bridges. The experimental design included stimulation of the rabbit taen... |
Cholesterol pericarditis is an uncommon form of pericardial disease, of unknown pathophysiology, that is characterized by chronic relapsing, usually large, pericardial effusions that are distinctive due to a high level of cholesterol. Usually it is idiopathic, but it can be associated with various systemic diseases suc... |
The article examines the epistolary of editors and publishers of the Ukrainian press addressed to Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytskyi. In this context, his collaboration with periodicals is highlighted. The content of the letters addressed to the hierarch is revealed, in particular the problems raised in these texts. It is... |
Keywords: epistolary, Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytskyi, Ukrainian press, journalist, editor, publisher.A Survey of Game Theoretical Approach in Cognitive Radio Network and 5G-6G Communications |
The development of telecommunications, especially wireless communication, requires data transmission at high speed and wide bandwidth to support 5G-6G communication services. For this reason, it is necessary to have a network with adaptive capabilities in managing and improving performance parameters independently thro... |
Abstract This study examines the use of the virtual enterprise network supplier supply-chain model of business behavior in creating synergies of cooperation. To explore virtual network behavior, it evaluates 60 samples, taken from of a few supply chains, and 17 items meeting certain behavioral criteria. Such an analysi... |
Nihat Ay – Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Science Mathematical Aspects of Embodied Intelligence I will present recent results on the design of embodied systems with concise control architectures, formalizing the notion of "cheap design" within the field of embodied intelligence. This notion highlights the ... |
Small molecules that function as highly selective agonists and antagonists of cellular receptors comprise some of the most valuable therapeutic agents and molecular probes. A recent paper describes the design, synthesis, and evaluation of CO23, the first potent and specific agonist of thyroid hormone receptor-alpha (TR... |
A novel minimum-voltage active-clamping (MVAC) PFC controller was developed, which is capable of providing effective control scheme to the MVAC PFC converter to suppress the reverse-recovery current of the boost diode and minimize the voltage stress on switch devices. The corresponding control strategy was proposed and... |
Many interesting human actions involve multiple interacting agents and also have typical durations. Further, there is an inherent hierarchical organization of these activities. In order to model these we introduce a new family of hidden Markov models (HMMs) that provide compositional state representations in both space... |
Students in online courses generate large amounts of data that can be used to personalize the learning process and improve quality of education. In this paper, we present the Latent Skill Embedding (LSE), a probabilistic model of students and educational content that can be used to recommend personalized sequences of l... |
A collaborative virtual sculpting system supports a team of geographically separated designers/engineers connected by networks to participate in designing three-dimensional (3D) virtual engineering tools or sculptures. It encourages international collaboration at a minimal cost. However, in order for the system to be u... |
of freedom devoid of any form of responsibility? This is a question I think the idea of “universal affinity” in the book could speak to if pushed further in a non-ideal realm. This is especially important because conditions of universal affinity are fundamentally linked to the material basis of life. If global business... |
The present paper describes simple and sensitive, reversed phase high performance liquid chromatography (RP-HPLC) method developed for the determination of tapentadol hydrochloride in bulk and in its tablet dosage form. Chromatographic separation was achieved by using phenomenex C18 column, 250×4.6 mm, 5 μm as stationa... |
The relation between hardness, strain and temperature has been widely investigated over the past decades. However, less attention has been paid to the effect of strain rate on hardness induced in high rate deformations. In this investigation, the relation between strain, temperature and strain rate is studied and a new... |
In this paper the listener echo performance of telephone network connections with more than one four-wire path is considered. The objective is to obtain simple design guidelines for the application of four-wire transmission and switching technologies, such that satisfactory listener echo performance for voice and voice... |
In the clinical evaluation, and treatment of the patients with urinary calcium oxalate stones, determination of urinary citric acid levels is as important as oxalic acid levels. Presence of specific matrix proteins, and other anions in urine complicates its measurement. Therefore we aimed to develop a routine high perf... |
In order to improve the transform efficiency of bi-stable energy harvester (BEH), this paper proposes an advanced bi-stable energy harvester (ABEH), which is composed of two bi-stable beams coupling through their magnets. Theoretical analyzes and simulations for the ABEH are carried out. First, the mathematical model i... |
Scala is a powerful language that supports a variety of features, but it lacks virtual traits. Virtual traits are class-valued object attributes and can be redefined within subtraits. They support higher-order hierarchies and family polymorphism. This work introduces virtual traits into Scala and explains how to encode... |
The collision simulation model of the energy-absorbing box was established to analyze the collision safety by taking the energy-absorbing box of a certain car as the research object. Firstly, according to the thickness prediction theory of equal energy absorption, the thickness of the aluminum energy absorbing box is o... |
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