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Compared to placebo, antihypertensive treatment reduced the risk of stroke (RR: 0.67 [95% CI: 0.57-0.79]). Reduced risk was significant for transient ischemic attack, fatal stroke, nonfatal stroke and total stroke. There were insufficient data to compare individual agents. |
CONCLUSION |
Antihypertensive treatment is associated with a significant reduction in stroke in elderly individuals. Reductions in dementia and cognitive decline were not significant; however, there was short follow-up. Comparative effectiveness evidence is limited.Kinematic Analysis of an Anthropomorphic Robot Hand |
There has been a continuous effort by researchers to develop multi-fingered robot hands for variety of applications. Some of these hands are meant for industrial applications while thers are used for orthopedic rehabilitation of humans. However the degree of success to develop an anthropomorphic robot hand in close res... |
We investigate a weakly coupled infinite system of nonlinear strong parabolic differential–functional inequalities of the following form (1) ∂tz (t, x) < f (t, x, z(t, x), ∂xz (t, x), ∂ xxz (t, x), z), i ∈ S, in an arbitrary domain D. The right-hand sides f i of these inequalites are functionals of an unknown function ... |
This paper describes a hybrid leaky feeder/fiber-optic transmission system for use in underground transportation networks. The system has a 1.6-Gb/s throughput and features an ultrawideband axial slot leaky feeder, which is based on a standard semirigid coaxial cable as a fixed antenna. Patch antennas with a 4-GHz cent... |
This letter presents an 8-b differential current steering digital-to-analog converter (DAC) for the cryogenic front-end of future quantum computers. Recently published characterization of CMOS technology reveals the deterioration of transistor matching properties at cryogenic temperatures. The preliminary study of the ... |
3D Human Body Reconstruction from a monocular image is an important problem in computer vision with applications in virtual and augmented reality platforms, animation industry, en-commerce domain, etc. While several of the existing works formulate it as a volumetric or parametric learning with complex and indirect reli... |
Although the development of Internet-based m-commerce has been disappointing, commercial applications for text messages have developed rapidly. This paper explores the role of SMS or text message advertising. Although SMS advertising is strictly a form of telemarketing, it shares features with email marketing and m-com... |
The Esan who presently inhabit four local government areas of Edo State, Nigeria, share an exclusive feeling of being one people. In language and custom they are akin to the Edo people of Benin. The name “Esan” is an Edo word meaning “jump” or “flee,” which explains the manner in which they departed the Benin kingdom. ... |
One of the monoclonal antibodies raised against mitotic HeLa cells (termed as mH3) recognized a 27-kDa protein and stained microtubules in the mitotic spindles of HeLa cells. Immunoscreening of a HeLa cDNA library revealed that mH3 antigen is a small heat shock protein, HSP27. Immunoprecipitation analysis using mH3 sug... |
We report energy resolution, capacitance, and depletion voltage transients in neutron damaged coaxial Ge(HP) detectors fabricated from n-type and p-type germanium. The disordered region model for fast neutron degradation of germanium detectors was supported by 1) the large trapping cross sections observed (~ 10-11 cm2)... |
Human Rights under law No. 39 of 1999 is a set of rights inherent in humans as God's creatures and is a gift that must be respected, upheld and protected by the State, law, government and everyone for honor and protection of human dignity. According to the United Nations (UN) human rights is a right inherent in our own... |
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES |
Programmed shared medical appointments (pSMAs) are an extension of shared medical appointments (SMAs) for managing chronic diseases. Acceptance and outcomes of a trial for weight management are reported here. |
METHOD |
Six programmed sessions in weight management were carried out in seven NSW primary healthcare centres. |
RESULTS |
Seventy-seven per cent of 216 participants (64 male, 102 female) completed at least four of six pSMAs over 16-18 weeks ('adherers'). Eighty-five per cent of adherers approved of pSMAs, and 73% said they would prefer these over a standard clinical consult. Providers also rated the process highly. Overall mean weight los... |
DISCUSSION |
pSMAs are a popular, cost and time-effective adjunct to standard clinical management.Motor Vehicle Accident Trauma and Restraint Usage Patterns in Children Less Than 4 Years of Age |
In a sample of children less than 4 years of age, treated in an emergency room after a motor vehicle accident, 22% were restrained in a child safety seat (improper and proper), 12% were restrained by a vehicle seat belt, and 70% were unrestrained. Trauma and injury patterns related to the various restraint use patterns... |
Selective laser sintering (SLS) 3D printing was utilized to fabricate highly porous carbonous electrodes. The electrodes were prepared by using a mixture of fine graphite powder and either polyamide-12, polystyrene, or polyurethane polymer powder as SLS printing material. During the printing process the graphite powder... |
Introduction: Blood group, clotting time (CT) and bleeding time (BT) are vital haematological parameters that are tested prior to any surgery. Blood groups are associated with various diseases and blood group "O" linked with nose bleeds. The aim of this study is to evaluate the association between CT and BT between var... |
In this paper, we present a reconfigurable MAC scheme where the partition between contention-free and contention-based regimes in each frame is adaptive to the network status leveraging reinforcement learning. In particular, to support a virtualized wireless network consisting of multiple slices, each having heterogene... |
A new OECD test guideline 431 (TG431) for in vitro skin corrosion tests using human reconstructed skin models was adopted by OECD in 2004. TG431 defines the criteria for the general function and performance of applicable skin models. In order to confirm that the new reconstructed human epidermal model, LabCyte EPI-MODE... |
X-linked inhibitor of apoptosis (XIAP) and Chk1 are potential molecular targets in radiotherapy. However, their molecular association in the regulation of radiation sensitivity has been rarely studied. Here, we show that XIAP modulates radiation sensitivity by regulating stability of Chk1 in lung cancer cells. Both Chk... |
This thesis appears in three parts: Modules I, II, & III. The purpose of these units was to argue that Generation 1.5 (G1.5) learners are a distinct group of English language learners with unique ways of representing themselves in academic writing, and to identify those salient linguistic differences among G1.5, tradit... |
Tipe 2 chain A and H antigens qf' human erythrocytes Results of previous studies from our laboratories on the isolation and characterization of erythrocyte glycolipids with blood group A and B activities can be summarized as follows: ( I ) Four A-active and four H-active glycosphingolipid components, termed A", Ah, A ,... |
In this paper, a novel center frequency and bandwidth tunable, cross-coupled waveguide resonator filter is presented. The coupling between adjacent resonators can be adjusted using non-resonating coupling resonators. The negative sign for the cross coupling, which is required to generate transmission zeros, is enforced... |
OBJECTIVE |
To investigate the association between methylthioadenosine phosphorylase (MTAP) gene single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) and myocardial infarction (MI) in the Chinese Han ethnicity. |
METHODS |
432 patients suffered from myocardial infarction and 430 controls were involved for case and control groups, respectively. Nine tag SNPs in MTAP gene were selected and genotyped. |
RESULTS |
We found no significant association of selected tag SNPs with MI in all of the samples. However, in stratified analysis, significant association was observed at rs7027989 in male subjects. The risk of MI increased by 26% (P = 0.005) for male subjects of minor allele carriers in a dominant model. The increased risk of M... |
CONCLUSION |
MTAP gene might be involved in the etiology of MI in Chinese Han ethnicity.Letter to the Editor |
It has recently been suggested that an abnormal anion exchange mechanism operates in the sweat glands of cystic fibrosis (CF) patients (1, 2). According to this suggestion, a defect in the CF sweat gland results in abnormally low permeability of the sweat duct to chloride ion. The normal exchange of chloride for bicarb... |
Denning and Dennis [1] give a method of minimizing semaphore contention utilizing tagged memory, semaphore words, and indivisible microcode segments. A similar method, inspired by their work, has been developed which further reduces the amount of time spent in the critical mutually exclusive section of the semaphore ma... |
Predicting the association of contaminants with both particulate and dissolved organic matter is critical in determining the fate and bioavailability of chemicals in environmental risk assessment. To date, the association of a contaminant to particulate organic matter is considered in many multimedia transport models, ... |
Background: Alexithymia is a personality trait characterized by deficits in regulating, experiencing and verbalizing emotions and has been assumed to be associated with a tendency to express emotional arousal through somatization. Although such a tendency is often observed in patients with dizziness, the exact relation... |
The smart grid is a brand new power system that incorporates power infrastructures with information technologies. In the smart grid, power devices are interconnected to facilitate various intelligent applications via ubiquitous communications between devices. Currently, communications between equipments are mainly enab... |
This article presents a survey on location management algorithms for next-generation personal communications networks. We first describe different static and dynamic location update algorithms. Then we discuss various selective paging strategies. We also present various modeling techniques that have been used for the p... |
Using a highly specific rabbit antiserum (E3) directed against O6-ethyldeoxyguanosine in a competitive radioimmunoassay, we have measured the kinetics of removal of this alkylation product from the DNA of human fibroblasts treated with the N-nitroso carcinogen N-ethyl-N-nitrosourea. A very similar rate of elimination f... |
When an Australian state or territory government launches a program of forced municipal mergers, it typically attracts much less attention in metropolitan areas compared with regional, rural and remote locations where the local council is often “government of last resort”. In these latter areas the socio-economic effec... |
Malignant mesothelioma is a rare tumor, responsible in North America and Europe for about one in 3500 deaths in adult males.’ There has probably always been a background incidence of malignant mesothelioma due to unknown causes, augmented in this century by cases attributable to asbestos exposure. In certain occupation... |
In this paper a new, efficient method for dynamic simulation on the GPU is presented. The method is based on an impulse-based approach which is an ideal candidate to simulate on limited hardware due to its simplicity. The proposed method shows how the impulse-based dynamic simulation can benefit from the highly paralle... |
Abstract Based on social cognitive theory, we propose that self-efficacy is a personal resource that protects people from the impact of confinement in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. In a longitudinal study where 197 French citizens were surveyed over 8 weeks of confinement (though only 25 participants responded ... |
A switched antenna that has a capability to operate in the dual-band WLAN frequency bands (2.4-2.485, 5.15-5.35, and 5.725-5.825 GHz) and the band-notched ultrawideband (UWB) frequency band (the stopband covers the frequency band ranging from 5.15 to 5.825 GHz) is presented. The proposed antenna is composed of a rectan... |
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