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current vertex. We present an algorithm for 1-local routing on the Delaunay triangulation, and |
show that it finds a path between a source vertex s and a target vertex t that is not longer than |
3.56|st|, improving the previous bound of 5.9.Embedding Social Workers In Veterans Health Administration Primary Care Teams Reduces Emergency Department Visits. |
While an emerging body of evidence suggests that medical homes may yield more benefits than traditional care models do, the role of social workers within medical homes has yet to be evaluated separately. We assessed the impact of an initiative to add social workers to rural primary care teams in the Veterans Health Adm... |
A legal and philosophical perspective on the in loco parentis position of teachers The in loco p a re n tis position o f the teacher implies that he/she is regarded as acting in the pla ce o f the parent. This principle is em bedded in South African common law an d in many respects confirm ed by statutory law. In the S... |
The article describes a clinical case of treating a few- hours-life child with birth body weight--2900 g, length--50 cm, who had been extremely rare complex congenital malformations: fetus in fetu in the epigastrium with satisfactorily formed the lower half of the body of the failed twin, omphalocele and severe CHD. Th... |
After Plato’s Forms, and Aristotle’s substances, the Stoics posit the fundamental reality of lekta, the meanings of sentences, distinct from the sentences themselves. It is the first time in the tradition of Western philosophy that what is signified is properly distinguished from signs and signifiers. This book explore... |
Abstract Existing research has tended to make many assumptions about gay mens' sexuality and the contexts in which men express their sexuality. Such assumptions are often negative and limit the therapists' full appreciation of the complexity and richness of clients' lives. This paper reviews what literature there is an... |
Background Injury prevention programs (IPP) have demonstrated positive results in reducing the incidence of traumatic lower extremity (LE) injuries. However, it is not well documented how biomechanical alterations caused by IPP's contribute to improved physical performance. Objective To evaluate the effects of an IPP o... |
The problem of designing a controller for a linear, discretetime system is formulated as a problem of designing an appropriate plant-state covariance matrix. Closed-loop stability and multiple-output performance constraints are expressed geometrically as requirements that the covariance matrix lies in the intersection ... |
In this paper we make progress on the unsupervised task of mining arbitrarily shaped clusters in highly noisy datasets, which is a task present in many real-world applications. Based on the fundamental work that first applies a wavelet transform to data clustering, we propose an adaptive clustering algorithm, denoted a... |
OBJECTIVES. Large facial infantile hemangiomas have higher rates of complications than small localized hemangiomas, more often require treatment, and can be associated with neurological, ophthalmologic, and cardiac anomalies (PHACE syndrome). The anatomic patterns of these hemangiomas are often referred to as “segmenta... |
An estimated nine million Afghans, about 36% of the population, are living in absolute poverty, and the situation is exacerbated daily by widespread corruption and insecurity because of the armed conflict, a United Nations report says. The problems are impeding efforts to meet basic needs and to provide services, inclu... |
The study, published by the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, says that despite the injection of about $35bn (£23bn; €26bn) in international aid by donors since 2002, key indicators of development show that a reduction in the level of poverty has had little effect …O14.1 Optimizing screening for chla... |
Background US guidelines recommend annual chlamydia screening of sexually active women under age 25y. The benefits of screening heterosexual men remain unclear. We analyzed the potential impact of increasing chlamydia screening from current levels, comparing strategies targeting women and/or men. Methods We examined ex... |
The main steam temperature of thermal power units is an important control parameter to the safety and economic operation of the thermal power plant, which requires its long-term deviation to remain within ±5 °C. In this paper, the PID control parameters are optimized through chaotic particle swarm optimization (CPSO). ... |
Evolution algorithms are optimization methods that mimic a process of the natural evolution. Their stochastic properties result in a huge advantage over other optimization methods, especially regarding solving complex optimization problems. In this paper, several types of evolutionary algorithms are tested regarding a ... |
David Sellu, a senior colorectal surgeon who was jailed for gross negligence manslaughter after a patient died, has had his conviction quashed by the Court of Appeal.1 |
Three judges ruled that the conviction was unsafe because the trial judge’s direction to the jury was inadequate, failing to help them identify when negligence was so serious as to be criminal. |
The patient, 66 year old James Hughes, was recovering after a routine knee replacement on 5 February 2010 at the private Clementine Churchill Hospital in Harrow, north London, when he developed abdominal pains as a result of a perforated bowel. |
Sellu, who operated at the hospital in addition to his role as an NHS surgeon, was called in on 11 February …An interactive visual interface for FASTBUS diagnostics |
Complex instruments that are not used regularly, such as diagnostic devices, are often avoided or inefficiently used because of the startup effort required to figure out how to apply them. To solve this problem, a visual interface has been developed for the SLACFASTBUS Snoop module. This interface is based on the Macin... |
The last few years have seen a great deal of work on network reliability. In practical application, the transmitting utility may be restricted by some geometric limitations, such as in 2D space, changing the direction of vehicle in 2D space, if the swerve of angle is bigger than the restriction, then vehicle will be tu... |
A Resource Space Grid is a virtual Grid that aims at effectively sharing, using and managing versatile resources across the Internet. The kernel of the Resource Space Grid includes a Resource Space Model (RSM) and a uniform Resource Using Mechanism (RUM). This paper presents the Resource Space Grid's core scientific is... |
The fault tolerant control problem is investigated for a class of uncertain networked control systems (NCSs) subject to actuator faults and actuator saturation in this paper. System parameter uncertainties are considered and a sector condition method is employed to deal with the saturation problem. Based on the network... |
We quantify the OPC accuracy improvement obtained by including the stepper signatures in the OPC model. The analysis takes into account the complete cycle of OPC model calibration, OPC execution, and image verification of the OPCed photomask. We use the Nikon Scanner Signature File (NSSF) version 1.5 for the NSR-S610C ... |
Palmitoylation is a common lipid modification known to regulate the functional properties of various proteins and is a vital step in the biosynthesis of voltage-activated sodium (Nav) channels. We discovered a mutation in an intracellular loop of rNav1.2a (G1079C), which results in a higher apparent affinity for extern... |
Maternal-effect selfish genes such as Medea or Scat act to kill progeny that do not bear a copy of the selfish gene present in the mother. Previous models of this system allowed for two types of allele, the selfish (killer) type and the sensitive (susceptible) wild-type. These models predict that the invasion condition... |
Total variation regularization is popular in image reconstruction due to its edge-preserving property. We propose an linearized alternating direction method to solving problems in image reconstruction with total variation regularization. The algorithm effectively combines an alternating direction technique to minimize ... |
FPGA-based SAT solvers have the potential to dramatically accelerate SAT solving by effectively exploiting finegrained pipeline parallelism in a manner which is not achievable with regular processors. Previous hardware-based approaches have relied on on-chip memory resources to store data which, similar to a CPU cache,... |
This paper offers an alternative explanation for the on-the-run/off-the-run phenomena in T-securities, namely, the concentration of trade in recent issues, cost-of-trading differential and price differential between recent issue and earlier – issued bonds. We claim that optimizing the cost-of-trading and economizing on... |
AUXIN RESPONSE FACTOR7 (ARF7) is one of five ARF transcriptional activators in Arabidopsis thaliana that is proposed to regulate auxin-responsive expression of genes containing TGTCTC auxin response elements in their promoters. An Arabidopsis mutant (nonphototropic hypocotyl4-1 [nph4-1]) that is a null for ARF7 showed ... |
Background |
Fibromyalgia is a common chronic pain disorder typically associated with headache disorders, particularly chronic daily headache. However, fibromyalgia is typically underdiagnosed and undertreated. The Fibromyalgia Rapid Screening Tool questionnaire is a brief, self-administered questionnaire composed of six "yes/no" q... |
Methods |
Consecutive first-visit headache patients with primary chronic daily headache (≥15 days/month for three or more months) at the outpatient clinics of four university hospitals were enrolled in this study from April 2015 to October 2015, and the validity and reliability of the Fibromyalgia Rapid Screening Tool questionna... |
Results |
A total of 171 patients with primary chronic daily headache were recruited, and 100 (58.4%) were determined to have fibromyalgia. Receiver operating characteristic curve analysis revealed that a cutoff score of 5 (corresponding to the number of positive items) provided the highest rate of correct identification of pati... |
Conclusions |
The Fibromyalgia Rapid Screening Tool is a valid and reliable instrument for identifying fibromyalgia among patients with chronic daily headache.Infrared Background Signature Survey Experiment (IBSS) Test Results Of The Optical Subsystem |
The test results of the IBSS Optical Subsystem are presented. The newly developed instrument consists of a spectrometer and a radiometer together with a diffraction-limited telescope. The instrument is designed for remote measurements of infrared emissions aboard spacecraft and is cooled with supercritical helium to te... |
Twenty female beagle dogs underwent an L6–7 laminectomy and six dogs each had 25, 50 or 75% constriction of the cauda equina and 2 control dogs had laminectomy only. Cystometrograms were performed pre- and post-operatively and three months after constriction. Cortical evoked potentials were monitored pre- and post-oper... |
Chromosome behaviour and morphology of about 200 geographically separated populations of the Campanula rotundifolia group in Norway were analyzed. Diploid populations (2n = 34), some being close to the Greenland C. gieseckiana Vest ssp. gieseckiana occurred exclusively in the northernmost and NE parts of Norway (Finnma... |
A 49-year-old man was admitted to our hospital with vomiting. Abdominal CT revealed an avascular tumor at the uncinate process of the pancreas measuring 36x30 mm. Preoperative serum CA 19-9 was 361 U/ml. During laparotomy,the tumor was deemed unresectable (T4NXM0, Stage IVa),and duodenojejunostomy was performed. Extern... |
Living neither as Stone Age men nor as colonised subjects, the Ankave‐Anga (Papua New Guinea) are sufficiently isolated for journalists to have seen them as a ‘lost tribe’, even though their ‘contact’ with the outside world dated from the 1950s. Nonetheless, decades of interactions with the state, church and market hav... |
Sub graph search is a popular query scenario on graph databases. Given a query graph q, the sub graph search algorithm returns all database graphs having q as a sub graph. To efficiently implement a subgraph search, subgraph features are mined in order to index the graph database. Many subgraph feature mining approache... |
Alcide®, a liquid sterilizer, was evaluated for teratogenic potential in rats and mice. Sodium chlorite and lactic acid, the active ingredients of this compound, form chlorine dioxide when mixed. Pregnant rats and mice were administered 1 ml and 0.1 ml, respectively, of Alcide® liquid by gavage on days 6–15 of gestatio... |
A search for possible radiative decays of solar neutrinos with emission of photons in the visible range may be performed during total solar eclipses. We discuss some results obtained from the digitized images recorded during the August 11, 1999 total solar eclipse in Romania, and report on the observations made in June... |
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