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This review will focus on the infectious etiologies and more common noninfectious causes of lower respiratory tract syndromes among major immunosuppressed populations. The changing epidemiology of infections in the era of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) in the case of HIV-positive patients and the impacts ... |
We describe a simple implementation of a slit scanning confocal microscope to obtain an axial resolution better than that of a point-scanning confocal microscope. Under slit illumination, images of a fluorescent object are captured using an array detector instead of a line detector so that out-of-focus light is recorde... |
It is possible that Iran has covertly acquired a very small number of nuclear weapons and that these have been tested by North Korea. There are an increasing number of reports to this effect going back to 2007 when the London Daily Telegraph reported that with North Korean help Iran could obtain a “low-grade device—les... |
IT–endowed collaboration within and between groups will catalyze creativity, which in turn will facilitate multidisciplinary innovation and reduce barriers and inefficiencies among people working together. This article describes the challenges of supporting creativity and innovation through e-collaboration, and summa... |
Malware has been used to attack mobile devices since since it first appeared. The two main types of independent mobile malware attacks are mobile fraud apps and embedded hazardous apps. If one wishes to successfully fight against the cyber dangers posed by mobile malware, a detailed understanding of the permissions spe... |
G3-PLC is a powerline communication standard employing OFDM technology for the physical layer. The Medium Access Control (MAC) layer is derived from IEEE 802.15.4 as an interface between Logical Link Control (LLC) and the physical layer. It adopted Low-Power Wireless Personal Area Network (6LoWPAN) specification to fac... |
The direct simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) method was used to simulate microbackward-facing step flows in both slip and transition flow regimes. A DSMC code was developed and validated with microchannel flows. The effects of Kn number in flow characteristics were analyzed in detail. It was found that the phenomena of flo... |
A survival analysis was performed in 1,453 patients treated by chronic haemodialysis and prospectively followed up in the computerised French Diaphane Dialysis Registry. Risk factors found for overall and cardiovascular mortality are age, male sex, high systolic of diastolic blood pressure, low body mass index and low ... |
Red cell volume distribution curves were studied in alpha-thalassaemic mice (Hbath-J/+ mice) and normal mice (+/+ mice) of various ages. Individual Hbath-J/+ mice could not be reliably distinguished from their +/+ littermates on the basis of modal cell volume either at birth or during the first 3 weeks of life. However... |
reason. Adequate explanations of particular episodes of changes to knowledge could no longer be simply appeals to a universal model of abstract rationality to which the specific illustration was supposed to conform. Rather, they needed to include a whole new range of historical and so-rationality to which the specific ... |
INTRODUCTION |
Rotational atherectomy is usually performed in patients with angiographically determined high risk coronary lesions. The aim of this study was to evaluate the rate of major adverse cardiac events (death, Q-wave infarction or new revascularization) after rotational atherectomy, as well as to identify the clinical charac... |
PATIENTS AND METHODS |
The study population included 800 patients treated with rotational atherectomy from 1993 to 1999: 512 (64%), for de novo lesions, and 288 (36%) for restenosis. Balloon dilation and coronary stenting was performed in 95% and 34% of patients, respectively. |
RESULTS |
During hospitalization, 17 patients (2.1%) died, 16 (2%) had a Q-wave infarction, 30 (3.8%) a non-Q infarction, and new revascularization was performed in 28 (3.5%). The incidence of major adverse cardiac events was 6.5% (n = 52), this incidence being higher in the presence of diabetes (8.9 vs. 4.4%; p = 0.01), unstabl... |
CONCLUSION |
Some simple variables are associated with a higher incidence of major adverse cardiac events after rotational atherectomy. Advanced age, previous infarction and left ventricular dysfunction, however, do not necessarily imply a poorer prognosis in these patients.Symmetry breaking of the bending mode of CO2 in the presen... |
The weak infrared spectrum of CO2-Ar corresponding to the (0111) ← (0110) hot band of CO2 is detected in the region of the carbon dioxide ν3 fundamental vibration (≈2340 cm-1), using a tunable OPO laser source to probe a pulsed supersonic slit jet expansion. While this method was previously thought to cool clusters to ... |
Be short of Volt-Ampere Characteristics of the bulb simulation experiment software that experiment on student's prepared usefulness in accordance with present time in the electricity content course teaching. The author developed simulation experiment software that can achieve certainly invented effect and the nature im... |
This paper briefly describes the design and control method of a movable cement 3D printing system, which is composed of a mobile platform, a printing arm fixed on the platform and a cement conveying system. Compared with the traditional gantry 3D printer for buildings, this system has the characteristics of wide printi... |
Human trafficking is considered one of the key humanitarian crises of our time. Public opinion and policymakers alike call for meaningful responses to human trafficking and modern slavery as criminal law problems, which can be remedied through tougher border controls. This chapter argues that human trafficking cannot b... |
The focus of this paper is to reduce the cost of RFID systems when the full blown model of RFID is not cost effective. The question of low cost approach comes into picture when we are more concerned with using this technique as a simple identity information collector, and embedding it into the existing IT system with m... |
This paper deals with investigations of CNS-inflammations based on 23,338 autopsies in the period from 1967 to 1988. Inflammatory CNS-findings were observed in 210 cases (0.9 per cent). Their etiology was caused bacterially in 66 per cent and viral infections were found in 20 per cent. Additionally multiple sclerosis a... |
In this paper we describe load scheduling, a novel method that balances load among register files by residual resources. Load scheduling can reduce register pressure for clustered VLIW processors with distributed register files while not increasing VLIW scheduling length. We have implemented load scheduling in compiler... |
The developed implant movement (IM) checker was used to examine the effect of dental implant mobility of different implant geometry. For the available bone-space an appropriate implant diameter and implant length would be concerned for dental implantation. Fifty-four artificial dental implants were made of phosphorous ... |
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES |
There is a growing demand for quality improvement in the health care system. This study sought to generate "report cards" for primary care resident physicians on their use of quality markers related to diabetes care. |
METHODS |
Electronic medical records [electronic health records] were reviewed for the care provided to diabetics by resident physicians. |
RESULTS |
We were able to generate a report card for each resident physician. We found that compliance rates and mean values improved with increased frequency of visits for the following parameters: (1) HgbA1c testing and mean values, (2) lipid profile screening and mean values of low density lipoproteins, (3) administration of ... |
CONCLUSIONS |
It is possible to generate report cards for resident physicians to evaluate their performance related to diabetes care. There was a correlation between increased frequency of visits and better performance.Grain Boundary Josephson Junctions Using Y-Ba-Cu-O Films Operative at 77 K |
Grain boundary Josephson junctions were fabricated from superconducting oxide Y-Ba-Cu-O films. The junctions were made by a chemical wet etching technique with phosphoric acid (H3PO4) solution. Typical dimensions of the junctions were a width of 4 µm and a length of 20 µm. The junctions showed the so-called bridge-type... |
BACKGROUND:In this study, we sought to determine the median effective dose (ED50) for motor block of intrathecally administered plain bupivacaine in adults (20–80 years) and to assess the effect of age on ED50 required for motor block. METHODS:This study was performed in 129 adult patients undergoing transurethral, uro... |
Typically, the design of cognitive models has not emphasized the role of interfaces for describing the model's behavior. Models that populate synthetic environments are particularly complex and need support in this area. Using subject-matter experts we evaluated the use of the Situation Awareness Panel (SAP) as a tool ... |
The overlap of the principal luminescence band of the erbium ion with the low-loss optical transmission window of silica optical fibres, along with the drive for integration of photonics and silicon technology, has generated intense interest in doping silicon with erbium to produce a silicon-based optical source. Silic... |
During the last decade, Ethernet’s significance has increased in many embedded systems application areas, such as automotive, avionics and automation. However, guaranteeing the required availability level for such applications on Ethernet is still a hot research topic. In this specific area, we propose in this paper a ... |
In this paper we consider a performance index balancing outage probability for the overall cooperative system performance. The two approaches are used to estimate and optimize the value of the performance index, and the cooperative formation control is applied to move the mobile agents to achieve the optimal outage pro... |
A theory of the carrier thermal conductivity for electron antiferromagnetic spin fluctuation scattering has been developed and on this basis the experimental results of high-Tc oxides have been interpreted. Our theoretical analysis fits the experimental results excellently and suggests that the antiferromagnetic spin f... |
The N-terminal region of a 60 kDa, jasmonate-induced protein of barley leaves (JIP60) is shown to be homologous to the catalytic domains of plant ribosome-inactivating proteins (RIP). Western blotting of leaf extracts and in vitro reconstitution experiments indicate that JIP60 is synthesized as a precursor which is pro... |
Various shoulder injuries can give rise to axillary artery complications. Two such cases were admitted to Tan Tock Seng Hospital late last year. Both were young adult males, who had developed axillary artery thrombosis secondary to shoulder injuries. The following is a short discussion on the common types of shoulder i... |
GASTR Question: First, a 37-yearold woman presented with symptoms of obstructed defecation 9 years after a stapled hemorrhoidectomy procedure. Computed tomography (CT; Figure A) revealed a 5 4.5-cm, heterogenous mass indenting the lower rectum adjacent to the previous stapled line. Subsequent colonoscopy identified fec... |
bacillus subtilis, carrageenan, purification, recombinant nattokinase, thrombosis Nattokinase is a serine protease with fibrinolytic activity and has been proven clinical efficacy and safe for human use by the oral route. In this study, conducted purified recombinant nattokinase from Bacillus subtillis DB104 strain and... |
Synthetic compounds with a tri- and tetra-substituted imidazole scaffold are known as selective inhibitors of the p38 mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinase responsible for proinflammatory cytokine release. The scope is to review the literature describing their design, synthesis and activity studies. To date a great pl... |
ABSTRACT Banana fruits infected with Macrophomina phaseolina R-4242, Fusarium oxysporum sp.QJC-1403 and Nigrospora oryzae NRRL-54030 had deteriorated within eight days of incubation at room temperature (27± 2 o C). Extracts from the infected fruits exhibited cellulase activity, however uninfected fruits lacked cellulas... |
Abstract The relationship between law and violence is paradoxically structured: law is the opposite of violence, since legal forms of decision-making disrupt the spell of violence generating more violence. At the same time, law is itself a kind of violence; because it imposes a judgment that determines its “subject” li... |
The authors have developed a new way to set up circuit harmonic balance equations in a circuit simulator. The new method flexibly assigns different analysis frequencies to different parts of the circuit according to user input. The improved multi-tone analysis method was implemented in the circuit simulator APLAC by th... |
Silicon is used for consumable parts in reactive ion etching (RIE) equipment because it generates fewer particles, which decrease the yield, than other materials. Polycrystalline silicon is usually used for top electrodes, especially in high-aspect-ratio RIE, to increase the wafer’s self-bias. In this study, the relat... |
This article describes a cross-sectional study of the links between job-related stressors and depressive and psychophysiologic symptoms and morale in 67 New York City teachers. The teachers' mean score on the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D; M = 13.03) was higher than might be expected from ave... |
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