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This paper delineates an instrumental multi-case study conducted in Taiwan with university faculty. The study explores higher education teachers' standpoints concerning adoption of online learning community (OLC) as a strategy for continuing professional development (CPD) taking advantage of the technique frequently ap... |
An inverse first order reliability method (FORM) is presented to solve the safety factors for the in-plane creep stability of concrete filled steel tubular (CFST) arches. In the inverse analysis, the safety factors with or without considering the time-dependent behavior of concrete are introduced into limit state equat... |
We have carried out a detailed simulative study of the photonic band-gap crystal fiber sensor sensitivity by using the finite difference beam propagate method. The effect of the incident wavelength and the fill factor on the relative sensitivity of the sensors has been simulated. The simulative results show that with t... |
Cocaine not only increases brain dopamine levels but also activates the sigma1 receptor (σ1R) that in turn regulates orexigenic receptor function. Identification of interactions involving dopamine D1 (D1R), ghrelin (GHS‐R1a), and σ1 receptors have been addressed by biophysical techniques and a complementation approach ... |
Fast transient responses and excellent steady‐state control performances with flexibility in control operation are core motivations to promote a vast of research in the robotic control sector nowadays. As a sequence, in this paper, we present a learning nonlinear controller for motion control of robotic manipulators wi... |
Inner ear granuloma reactions following bilateral stapedectomy were studied in 21 cats. In the protocol, nonsensitized cats received homologous or heterologous fat in their left oval window after stapedectomy. Cats sensitized by skin grafting received homologous fat in their left ear. Absorbable gelatin sponge oval win... |
Editor—We were interested to read the article of Vyas et al 1 on the incidence of severe retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) in 11 neonatal units in five cities in England in 1994. We have published similar data from eight neonatal units in New South Wales (NSW) Australia in 1993 and 1994.2 These data were prospectively c... |
Treaty for the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (npt) has been flawed by deeply entrenched discriminatory features. Yet somehow it has emerged as the most widely subscribed-to disarmament agreement in the world, with 190 member states-parties.1 The year 2010 marks the fortieth anniversary of the npt’s entry into fo... |
Allometric equations remain essential to the estimation of forest biomass and carbon (C) stocks. However, such equations have mainly been developed for American and European forests, and transferring them to other species or eco-regions is problematic. There are large forested areas in the eastern Himalayas, but we lac... |
Consideration of antidrug security as an independent criminological category requires appropriate comprehensive measures aimed at neutralizing and eliminating the risks associated with and caused by the illegal drug trafficking. Consideration of such measures through the definition of antidrug security mechanism allows... |
Purpose of review Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is being diagnosed more frequently in older patients due to the increased use of abdominal imaging and the rising average age of western populations. Currently the management of this condition has two important deficiencies: inadequate methods to identify AAAs at risk o... |
Visual impairment can be termed as blindness or vision loss. This impairment causes many difficulties in their day-to-day activities such as in reading, walking, socializing, and driving. The white cane is considered to be the symbol of freedom, independence, and confidence. The proposed smart cane is designed with obs... |
Creating images of the transit delay from the labeling location to image tissue can aid the optimization and quantification of arterial spin labeling perfusion measurements and may provide diagnostic information independent of perfusion. Unfortunately, measuring transit delay requires acquiring a series of images with ... |
The use of stem cell therapy in combination with a left ventricular assist device (LVAD) for patients with advanced heart failure (HF) is an attractive concept with the potential to alter the natural history of HF. Cell therapy trials for HF have demonstrated excellent safety and encouraging results, but current rates ... |
In this report, we describe a new mutation located in the coiled 1B domain of desmin and associated with a predominant cardiac involvement and a high degree of cardiac sudden death in a large Indian pedigree with 12 affected members. The index cases was 38-year-old man who presented with progressive difficulty in gripp... |
OBJECTIVE |
To determine if medication plays a major role in cognitive impairment in bipolar disorder and if regular treatment with lithium influences the cognitive performance of a group of euthymic patients with bipolar I disorder. |
METHOD |
Cognitive performance was assessed using neuropsychological tests of attention, memory, and executive function on 60 subjects: 20 euthymic bipolar I patients with no medication intake, 20 euthymic bipolar I patients who were following regular treatment with lithium carbonate monotherapy, and a third group of 20 control... |
RESULTS |
Compared to the healthy group, bipolar I patients had significantly lower performance on episodic verbal and visual-verbal memory regardless of their medication status. No significant cognitive performance differences were found between the two groups of patients with bipolar disorder, suggesting that lithium therapy h... |
CONCLUSION |
Patients with bipolar I disorder have verbal memory deficits that are not explained by medication or by lithium monotherapy, but by the condition itself.A new synthetic cathinone: 3,4-EtPV or 3,4-Pr-PipVP? An unsuccessful attempt to circumvent the German legislation on new psychoactive substances. |
Synthetic cathinones comprise psychostimulants with desired effects like euphoria, increased vigilance, appetite suppression, and - mainly depending on certain structural features - entactogenic properties. 3,4-EtPV (1-(bicyclo[4.2.0]octa-1,3,5-trien-3-yl)-2-(pyrrolidin-1-yl)pentan-1-one) was first mentioned in an onli... |
This paper presents a method for speaker-independent automatic phonetic alignment that is distinguished from standard HMM-based “forced alignment” in three respects: (1) specific acoustic-phonetic features are used, in addition to PLP features, by the phonetic classifier; (2) the units of classification consist of dist... |
This study contains a short informative survey of rights and obligations, according to European Community Law, incumbent on students who intend to follow educational courses in another member state of the European Communities. It is concluded that those students may not be hindered whatsoever as to the access to school... |
RF switches are integrated to the shorting straps of a single feed dual-band planar inverted-F antenna (PIFA) to make a tunable PIFA. The L-band switch yields 0.45-dB insertion loss (IL) and 10-dB isolation bandwidth (BW) of 40% at 1.5 GHz. The tunable PIFA yields 39% impedance BW at 900-MHz band and 7.8% BW at 2000-MH... |
This paper attempts to address two issues: describe the difference between Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) and Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) and to examine whether the factor structure of ‘Work values Scale’ developed by Blood (1969) on U.S. sample holds valid in India. The participants in the study were equitab... |
The purpose of this study is to explore the projection of halal tourism development in Pekalongan City. By using a qualitative approach, this research collects data with observation of the tourism spot, interview with the government and tourism agents, and documentation. The results of this study reveals several facts.... |
A B S T R A C T Background: A wireless sensor network consists of a number of sensors spreading across a geographical area. The performance of the network suffers as the number of nodes grows in network becomes difficult to manage. It is essential that the network be able to self-organize. Clustering is an efficient te... |
Abstract: Retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) is a leading cause of childhood blindness worldwide. Although laser photocoagulation remains the gold standard for treating threshold and prethreshold disease (type 1 ROP), the off‐label use of anti‐vascular endothelial growth factor (anti‐VEGF) therapy to treat ROP is increas... |
The physiological state of animals is to a certain extent characterized by hematological indicators, since blood occupies a special place in the body. By transferring nutrients and biologically active substances, the blood performs the general regulation of vital functions of the body. The use of Vitartil as a feed add... |
The article presents studies carried out in industrial conditions on agrosoddy strongly podzolic medium loamy soils of the Udmurt Republic of Russia. The analysis of soil fertility indicators made it possible to estimate their cultivation level in average. Grain yield on these soils was obtained in the range of 2.12–3.... |
This paper presents a partial review of radiation damage effects on hyperfine interaction (HFI) experiments, based on the Discussion Meeting on Radiation Damage and Hyperfine Interactions held at Dieppe (France) prior to the Uppsala Conference. This presentation is complementary to that of H. de Waard's contribution to... |
To determine if lithium exerts direct cardiac toxicity, using an isolated, perfused rat heart model, paced and unpaced beating rat hearts were perfused with Krebs-Henseleit bicarbonate solution and left ventricular pressures were measured via a balloon-tipped catheter positioned in the left ventricle via the mitral val... |
A light-scattering goniometer for evanescent-wave dynamic light scattering (EWDLS) measurements at a liquid-fluid interface is introduced, and used for measurements on two charge-stabilized polystyrene colloid systems adsorbed to alkane-water interfaces. The goniometer allows an independent variation of the penetration... |
Anoxic depolarization of pyramidal neurons results from a large inward current that is activated, in part, by excessive glutamate release during exposure to anoxia/ischemia. Pannexin-1 (Panx1) channels can be activated both by ischemia and NMDA receptors (NMDARs), but the mechanisms of Panx1 activation are unknown. We ... |
BACKGROUND |
The aim of this study was to assess the anatomical prevalence and secondary involvement of Cloquet's nodes in patients undergoing robotic radical prostatectomy (RRP) and extended pelvic lymph node dissection (ePLND) for prostate cancer (PCa). |
METHODS |
RRP and ePLND were performed by two expert surgeons (WA and VDM). Data were prospectively collected and retrospectively analyzed. Dissected pelvic lymph nodes were sampled according to an anatomical template as follows: external iliac, obturator, Marcille's, and Cloquet's. Node packages were sent to the dedicated patho... |
RESULTS |
Between January 2014 and December 2017 a total of 258 patients were evaluated. In aggregate 247 out of 258 patients (95.7%) presented at least a lymph node in the in the Cloquet's fossa tissue and 105 (40.6%) had more than one node. Patients with multiple nodes in Cloquet fossa presented higher median lymph node amount... |
CONCLUSIONS |
To the best of our knowledge this is the first study that analyses specifically the quantitative prevalence of Cloquet's nodes and the incidence of malignancy involvement in patients undergoing RRP and ePLND for PCa. The occurrence of multiple lymph nodes in the Cloquet fossa is a rare event. Our series showed that Clo... |
The polarized growth of plant root hair cells requires specific glycosylation of proteins in the plant cell wall. The two most abundant natural organic polymers on Earth are cellulose and chitin, characterized by long chains of carbohydrates that bear a specific type of sugar linkage called O-glycosylation. This type o... |
Genes for the cell-counting factors in Dictyostelium discoideum, countin and countin2, are considered to control the size of the multicellular structure of this organism. A novel gene, countin3, that is homologous to countin and countin2 genes (49 and 39% identity in amino acid sequence, respectively) was identified in... |
The weighted list, known popularly as a `tag cloud', has appeared on many popular folksonomy-based web-sites. Flickr, Delicious, Technorati and many others have all featured a tag cloud at some point in their history. However, it is unclear whether the tag cloud is actually useful as an aid to finding information. We c... |
In Recent times, the requirement of high quality images and application of advanced image processing techniques in medical and remote sensing fields has radically increased. Therefore, there is an increase in the data storage requirements to accommodate these high quality images. With image fusion techniques, the data ... |
Background In June 2010 a report, ‘A Mixed Bag – An enquiry into the care of hospital patients receiving parenteral nutrition’, was published by the National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death (NCEPOD). They reviewed 870 adult case notes and found inadequate assessment and monitoring in 54% and metabol... |
It is with both sadness and pride that we step down as co-Editors of Movement Disorders and pass the reins on to our capable successors. Movement Disorders has matured and changed immensely during our tenure. This could not have happened without the strong support of our authors, readers and Society members, the many m... |
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