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Small Lymphocytic Lymphoma (SLL) and its leukemic variant, Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL), are the most common B-cell lymphomas in western countries. In CLL/SLL, cutaneous or mucous membranes lesions occur in up to 25% of patients: infection or hemorrhage are the most common aetiologies, but they can also be an ear... |
The purpose of this study was to investigate Finnish (n = 226) and Estonian (n = 347) teachers’ views on the nature of intelligence. The study utilized a survey that included a qualitative, open-ended question about teachers’ definition of intelligence and the quantitative inventory Implicit Theories of Intelligence (I... |
Objective:To determine whether population differences can explain the contrasting impacts on HIV observed in the Mwanza trial of sexually transmitted disease (STD) syndromic treatment (ST), the Rakai trial of STD mass treatment (MT), and the Masaka trial of information, education, and communication (IEC) with and witho... |
THE GROWING INTEREST within organized medicine to achieve some of its goals by working through coalitions of groups and organizations that share these goals makes eminent sense. For some time it has been increasingly clear that the medical profession, standing alone, simply does not have the social, economic or politic... |
BAE SYSTEMS reports on a program to characterize the performance of MEMS corner cube retroreflector arrays under laser illumination. These arrays have significant military and commercial application in the areas of: (1) target identification; (2) target tracking; (3) target location; (4) identification friend-or-foe (I... |
This section contains problems that challenge students and teachers of college mathematics. We urge you to participate actively by submitting solutions and by proposing problems that are new and interesting. To promote variety, the editors welcome problem proposals that span the entire undergraduate curriculum. Propose... |
A mixed-mode geometry has been chosen to investigate a crack propagation using the multi-parameter fracture mechanics concept. The so-called Williams’ series expansion is used for the crack-tip stress field approximation. It has been shown that application of the generalized fracture mechanics concept can be crucial fo... |
In this article, we discuss the fundamentals of the market structure and trading, along with how these impact the execution of investment strategies. From a practitioner perspective, we bring together this information to explore different models and processes to assist in achieving optimal execution of trading strategi... |
: Every firm has tendency only to seek profit whereas, the objective of a firm is not only to maximize profit and maximize their shareholder or owner but also seek to maximize the wealth of their stakeholder. This mean that a firm needs to benefit their stakeholder and one of the stakeholders of a firm is the community... |
HEK293T cells were transiently transfected to express either the human A1 adenosine receptor together with pertussis toxin-resistant cysteine-to-glycine forms of the alpha subunits of Gi1 (C351G), Gi2 (C352G), and Gi3 (C351G) and wild-type Go1alpha or fusion proteins comprising the A1 adenosine receptor and these Gi/o ... |
While performing an examination of a newborn, you note a preauricular sinus (PAS). The examination is otherwise unremarkable. A colleague suggests a need for renal ultrasonography in infants with a PAS or preauricular tag (PAT), but your consultant tells you this is unjustified. You decide to search for evidence to inf... |
Do infants with isolated PAT or PAS (population) have a higher incidence of congenital anomalies of the kidneys and urinary tract (CAKUT) (outcome) on ultrasound (intervention) than infants without (controls)? |
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Cochrane Library (21 August 2012)—preauricular OR ‘pre-auricular’—16 results of which none were relevant. |
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Pubmed (21 August 2012)—(‘pre-auricular’ OR preauricular OR ‘Ear/abnormalities’(MeSH)) AND (kidney OR renal OR urinary OR genitourinary OR ‘Kidney/abnormalities’(MeSH) OR ‘Kidney/ultrasonography’(MeSH) OR ‘Urinary Tract/abnormalities’(MeSH) OR ‘Urinary Tract/ultrasonography’(MeSH)). |
Five hundred and forty-two articles were found. Titles and/or abstracts were reviewed to identify …Classification of White Blood Cells using Bispectral Invariant Features of Nuclei Shape |
Classification of white blood cells from microscope images is a challenging task, especially in the choice of feature representation, considering intra-class variations arising from non-uniform illumination, stage of maturity, scale, rotation and shifting. In this paper, we propose a new feature extraction scheme relyi... |
Evaluating the degradation of mechanical properties under irradiation is crucial for nuclear structural materials. Although ion irradiations have been commonly used for fundamental research on irradiation effects and fast screening of potential materials, the mechanical property tests on ion-irradiated materials are ch... |
Over the past 50 years, a number of metabolites of vitamin E (a-tocopherol) have been described. These can be divided into two groups. The first include a-tocopherylquinone, a-tocopheronic acid and a-tocopheronolactone (a-TL), all of which result from the oxidation and opening of the chromanol ring of a-tocopherol [1, ... |
145 patients were recruited in the trial while 130 completed it. Patients were randomized to receive zinc sulphate capsules. 220 mgm three times a day or identical placebo. Major outcome variable was 'Sickle cell crisis'. After a follow up of 1.5 years, the mean number of episodes of crisis was 2.46 +/- 1.04 in the int... |
Liquid Sn droplets were irradiated with shaped bursts of picosecond laser pulses. The shapes of the deforming droplets following the impact of the recoil pressure induced by these bursts were imaged using a high-speed shadowgraph system. The rupture time t[over ̃]_{b} of the droplet expanding as a thin fluid film was m... |
Abstract : The research has dealt with decentralized predictive sensing and control in the presence of uncertainties and constraints. In the first part, we have adopted an information-theoretic framework based on general recursive Bayesian estimation. Each agent continuously performs Bayesian updates of the local belie... |
The ecology of R plasmids was studied in the intestinal flora of 19 patients with salmonellosis without antibiotic treatment. The plasmids found in the Salmonella strains and the accompanying non-pathogenic Enterobacteriaceae were characterized in each patient. We determined the transferability by conjugation, the fi c... |
The present study was undertaken to examine the effects of IL-4 on induction of cytotoxic killer activity and on production of antitumor mediators by human monocytes and alveolar macrophages (AM). The spontaneous tumoricidal activity of AM was slightly suppressed by IL-4. Addition of IL-4 to cultures of AM or monocytes... |
Between 1934 and 1935 Giuseppe Terragni designs the monument to Roberto Sarfatti. This work is one of his funerary monuments from which more original documentation is preserved: two sketched preliminary solutions and two fully defined solutions; one of them being built. The analysis of all these solutions allows to loo... |
&NA; Treatment of eyebrow ptosis to enhance the cosmetic effect from blepharoplasty is commonly done with a forehead lift using a coronal incision approach. The coronal scalp incision is associated with the annoying sequelae of frontoparietal scalp numbness, itching, and paresthesias, all of which can be permanent. A f... |
Previous works on image emotion analysis mainly focused on predicting the dominant emotion category or the average dimension values of an image for affective image classification and regression. However, this is often insufficient in various real-world applications, as the emotions that are evoked in viewers by an imag... |
In this paper, we present a dynamic-inversion based navigation algorithm to autonomously drive the horticulture rover used for precision agriculture purposes along a narrow furrow without damaging the crops. The horticulture rover traverses the furrow by aligning itself with the centerline with the assistance of a real... |
Methodology has been developed that enables virtually complete purification and recovery of early hematopoietic progenitors from human adult blood, a minority of which is multipotent and endowed with self-renewal capacities, i.e., exhibits stem cell properties. This report briefly reviews: (i) the key steps involved in... |
In this study, airline planning optimization problem based on ferry strategy was considered. Cost was the study objective function subject to forty equality and inequality constraints. Regression analysis as well a genetic algorithm (GA) was used to solve the problem. The mathematical relationship between flight fuel c... |
The role of the immune system in the recognition and prevention or therapy of cancer remains a fascinating and important topic of research. The first in the series of Keystone Symposia on Cellular Immunity and Immunotherapy of Cancer was held in 1990 in Park City, Utah (1). Progress in tumor immunology and new developm... |
Objective: To characterize the influence of additional (both prior and subsequent) traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) on recovery after a moderate to severe index TBI. Setting: Traumatic Brain Injury Model Systems centers. Participants: Persons with moderate to severe TBI (N = 5054) enrolled in the TBI Model Systems Natio... |
It's warmer down below: The autobiography of Sir Harold Harding 1900–1986 . Edited by Amanda Davey . Tilia Publishing UK, Horsham, 2015, £19.95, paperback, 288 pp., ISBN: 978-0-99339650-2 |
Sir Harold Harding was a contemporary of Rudolf Glossop, and his memory is esteemed in the British Tunnelling Society with its biennial Harding Memorial lecture and annual Harding prize, Sir Harold having been the founder chairman of that society. Sir Harold had earlier written an account of his life that was simply fa... |
In a way it is a pity that the book appears 30 years after Sir Harold's death, because in particular given the age he reached there can be few potential readers of the book to remember working closely with him. Sir Harold's own account stretches to over 230 pages, …Review on “Standardization an Imp Tool for Herbal Drug... |
The medicinal plants are important source for pharmaceutical manufacturing. Medicinal plants & herbal medicines account for a significant percentage of the pharmaceutical market. There is increasing awareness and general acceptability of the use of herbal drugs i n today’s medical practice although most of these applic... |
Background and Purpose: |
Increased body mass index (BMI) has been associated with ischemic stroke in older populations, but its association with stroke in younger populations, in whom the life-long burden of obesity-associated risk factors is presumably lower, is not known. In light of the current obesity epidemic and evidence for an increasi... |
Methods: |
We investigated the association between BMI and early-onset ischemic stroke using data from a case-control study in the greater Baltimore-Washington area. Cases ages 15-49 (n=1201) and age-gender-race balanced controls (n=1154) were recruited between 1992 and 2008. Presence of hypertension and diabetes was obtained by... |
Results: |
Unadjusted analysis indicated a significant association between BMI and ischemic stroke; the overweight group had an OR of 1.2 (95% CI 1.0- 1.5) and the obese group had an OR of 1.8 (95% CI 1.5- 2.2) when compared to the normal weight reference group. But these heightened risks were highly attenuated after further adj... |
Conclusion: |
We observed a moderate association between BMI and early-onset ischemic stroke that increased in a dose-response fashion. The attenuation of stroke risk in high BMI groups following adjustment for hypertension and diabetes suggest that the effects of obesity may be mediated in part through these and other obesity-rela... |
Spatial analysis of haze–fog pollution in China |
Haze–fog pollution has been one of the major atmospheric pollution problems in China. This study is aimed at understanding spatial distribution and spatial correlation of haze–fog pollution in China from 2001 to 2010 using exploratory spatial data analysis technique. The results show that spatial distribution of haze–f... |
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Poverty debates have recently focused upon the emergence of an underclass characterised by a detachment from society's normative behaviour and values. Alternative contributions invite us to view the growth in social assistance as the 'new poor' measured against the 'traditional' poor. In neither the accounts of 'new po... |
Twin studies have documented that parenting behavior is partly heritable, but it is unclear how parents' genetics shape their caregiving. Using tools of molecular genetics, the present study investigated this process by testing hypotheses about associations between a genome-wide polygenic score for educational attainme... |
Soliton transmission through cascaded fibre amplifiers has attracted widespread attention recently. Two transmission schemes, namely, "average soliton method" and "preemphasis method", were proposed to propagate solitons through such a transmission link. We compare the two methods by studying the soliton propagation be... |
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