text stringlengths 0 10.1k |
|---|
It has been reported that basement membranes were found around the sinusoidal walls in cirrhotic livers, indicating the development of capillarization of the sinusoids. It has been also emphasized that capillarization of the sinusoids is more prominent in alcoholic liver disease (ALD). In the present study, factor VIII... |
Standard analyses applied to genome-wide association data are well designed to detect additive effects of moderate strength. However, the power for standard genome-wide association study (GWAS) analyses to identify effects from recessive diplotypes is not typically high. We proposed and conducted a gene-based compound ... |
In a previous article published in this journal, the authors show that the total requirements approach to analysing a region's tourism and hospitality industry is superior to the traditional use of location quotients. This paper extends the authors' previous research by focusing on imports. It introduces the import gap... |
High globalization in the world today results in the involvement of multi-discipline, multi-cultural teams, as well as the entrance of more economic powers in the market. Effective innovation strategies are critical if emerging markets plan to become economic players in this increasingly connected global market. The c... |
Objectives. To systematically evaluate the efficacy and safety of Diane-35 for treating polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) and compare it with metformin, either in combination or alone. Study design. A systematic review and meta-analysis were conducted. Randomized controlled studies applying Diane-35 and metformin for tr... |
The complicated circumstance of the Internet of Things (IoT) context rises the difficulty of the interactions between IoT services and human or among IoT devices. This paper focuses on the approaches related to Web technology that intends to improve interaction efficiency of IoT. Those approaches provide outstanding ab... |
Informatics applications may facilitate improved chronic disease care, but designing for this environment may have unique requirements. Clinic specific and generalized models of workflow and information flow were developed based data from over 150 hours of direct observation in three chronic disease clinics. Semi-struc... |
The Vacuum Vessel (VV) system is an essential component of Keda Torus for eXperiment (KTX), and various scenarios might take place on it. The VV's supports should be adequately strong to stand against various loads on VV, which might happen in extreme scenarios. Therefore, the design of VV supports is verified in a sin... |
Groin lymphocele is a serious complication of vascular and cardiac surgery as well as of interventional procedures that cannulate the femoral vessels, whose treatment lacks standardization because of high risk of failure. The aim of the technique we describe is the sealing of open lymphatic channels thanks to prolonged... |
We have studied the trypsin‐like serine protease activity of human tonsillar B lymphocytes. The lysate of the low‐density, in vivo activated B cells as well as the lysate of cells stimulated with anti‐human IgM F(ab')2 show elevated trypsin‐like serine protease activity compared to the resting subset as monitored by th... |
The objective of nuclear fusion research is to find out whether or not the nuclear energy of the light elements, especially that released when hydrogen isotopes react to form helium, can be put to practical use to provide a virtually limitless source of energy. This research has been conducted on an increasing scale si... |
Routine assessment may improve ethical standards and overall quality of trials |
Our awareness of the requirements for ethical clinical research has increased over the past century. Research ethics committees were set up after the Declaration of Helsinki to review research proposals. Many journals now require a statement that ethical approval has been obtained before they consider a research report... |
The main reason for including ethics in the checklist of systematic reviews is to increase awareness in the scientific community about the need for high ethical standards in research on humans. The proposal would also encourage reviewers to identify those occasional studies that were so unethical that there may be doub... |
Issues around ethical quality overlap importantly with the central issues of the validity, reliability, and generalisability of research findings. They relate to some of the more subtle potential sources of bias in experimental clinical research. It is thus important to include ethical …Strength ofdx2−y2pairing in the ... |
In the ground state of the doped two-leg Hubbard ladder there are power-law decaying d_{x^2-y^2}-type pairing correlations. It is important to know the strength and the temperature scale of these correlations. For this purpose, we have performed determinantal Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) calculations of the reducible part... |
This study examines the influence of beliefs and expectations on the first year implementation of posttenure review in one state system. The findings indicate that beliefs and expectations concerning posttenure review's origins, purposes, and usefulness, strongly influenced participants' experience of the process, as w... |
Angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors protect the hearts of patients with different levels of cardiac disorder. The greatest benefit seems to be achieved in subjects with most severe heart failure. Moreover, ACE inhibition is protective also in patients without manifested heart failure but with severe systolic... |
Aiming at the “light wind start, light wind power generation” of vertical axis wind turbine, a new T-shaped radial passive magnetic bearing with high suspension characteristics is proposed. Passive magnetic bearings used in vertical axis wind turbines usually have small bearing capacity and difficult magnetization. The... |
This paper aims at proposing a novel satellite quantum key distribution (QKD) system for vehicular networks. Quantum key from a satellite (i.e., a trusted node) is transmitted through a free-space optical (FSO) channel to a high-attitude platform (HAP) using radio-over-FSO (RoFSO) technique. HAP playing a role as a rel... |
Coping with the continually increasing volumes of data being handled by mobile networks requires the use of enabling technologies, such as small cell deployments and additional higher frequencies. The network needs to carefully associate the users to the base stations (BSs) and frequency bands (we call resource allocat... |
The typical framework for assessing human population distribution is across a flat, two-dimensional landscape. We alter this perspective by examining population distribution with respect to a third dimension, elevation. This alternative framework, termed hypsographic demography, conceptually provides a more complete vi... |
Despite utilization of hepatitis C viremic organs for hepatitis C naïve recipients (HCV D+/R‐) in other solid organ transplants, HCV viremic pancreata remain an unexplored source of donor organs. This study reports the first series of HCV D+/R‐ pancreas transplants. HCV D+/R‐ had shorter waitlist times compared to HCV ... |
The impact of community-based organizations on the delivery of health care knowledge is well documented. Little research has focused on the importance of health literacy in the dissemination of health care information by minority small business owners. This study sampled 38 business owners within a local business distr... |
In this paper, an optimization expert control system in forecasting sinter production process is presented. The system can predict the quality of the sinter and generate the ore mixing recipes model based on the quality requirement. We have obtained remarkable benefits with applying the system to the sinter production.... |
This paper introduces an economical Solar Photovoltaic (SPV) water pumping system using induction motor drive (IMD) for stand-alone application like water irrigation in rural area. This system consists of two stages of power conversion. In thel firstl stage, a DC-DCl Boostl converterl is employedl to extract the maximu... |
Elatone, the 9-keto derivative of the marine natural product elatol, produces an irreversible dose-dependent inhibition of cell cleavage in synchronously dividing Strongylocentrotus purpuratus sea urchin embryos. When added early in the cell cycle, elatone produces a significant and progressive inhibition of [3H]thymid... |
This paper examines how a country's weak institutions and polarized government can affect the likelihood of its default on sovereign debt. Using a data set of 90 countries, it shows that strong institutions are associated with fewer sovereign default crises. In addition, when institutions are weak, a more polarized gov... |
Background: While Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) may intuitively seem to be on the extremes of a single spectrum (ranging from impulsive to rigid), symptoms of ASD and ADHD often co-occur in the same children. This study aimed to provide an in-depth characterization o... |
Of 28 sexually abused children (22 girls and 6 boys) aged 21/2 to 151/2 years, those suffering moderate to extreme emotional disturbance were female, unsupported by a close adult, molested by their father and by more than one male relative, genitally molested, and molested from an early age and over a long period. Twel... |
In this paper, the authors propose the user evaluation support methods for IGA (Interactive Genetic Algorithm)-based 3D room layout generation. Although IGA is useful for applying the user preferences to the solution, IGA-based systems force users to evaluate a lot of individuals, causing the fatigue of operators. Ther... |
Polysaccharide monooxygenases (PMOs) use a type-2 copper center to activate O2 for the selective hydroxylation of one of the two C-H bonds of glycosidic linkages. Our electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) analysis and molecular dynamics (MD) simulations suggest the unprecedented dynamic roles of the loop containing the... |
Sparse polynomial representations are used in a number of algebraic manipulation systems, including Altran. This paper discusses the arithmetic operations with sparsely represented polynomials; we give particular attention to multiplication and division. We give new algorithms for multiplying two polynomials, with n an... |
INTRODUCTION Radiotherapy is not commonly used for the treatment of gastric cancer in Japan, where surgery is the standard local treatment. We report the results of chemoradiotherapy in patients with advanced or recurrent gastric cancer which was deemed difficult to treat surgically. METHODS Twenty‐one patients with ga... |
Menstruation is an important part of a girl’s life, and inadequate knowledge about this process can have an impact on reproductive health. Menstrual hygiene is the aspect given the most importance in health education for girls. A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted in Marrakesh among a population of schoolg... |
Backround: High rates in trauma-related mortality pose a major health problem and increase every day. Early diagnosis and treatment can be lifesavers for this patient group in the emergency departments, which serve as the first place to admit trauma patients in a hospital. Objectives: We aim to determine high-risk crit... |
Physicians are often faced with the dilemma of whether they should extrapolate data from animal experiments or from only remotely related clinical reports to problems in their practice. The decision is made more difficult when directly relevant clinical studies either have not been performed or are inconclusive. Such a... |
AVO inversion is hard to be efficiently applied in unexploited fields due to the insufficiency of well information. For the sake of AVO inversion in a well-absent area, the most conventional method is to construct pseudo well-logs by defining seismic processing velocity as the P-velocity and computing S-velocity and de... |
This chapter explores the mobilization of resources, technologies, patients, human capital, and biomaterials for international collaboration regarding genetic research. Our question is simple: What makes genetic material and health data flow, and which hopes and concerns travel along with them? What cannot travel, and ... |
In usable security (e.g., smartphone authentication), a lot of emphasis is put on low-effort authentication and access concepts. Yet, only very few approaches exist where such concepts are applied beyond digital devices. We investigate and explore seamless authentication systems at doors, where most currently used syst... |
In this longitudinal study of 232 student-subjects in two public high schools, it was found, by a cross-lagged correlation method, that earlier psychopathology predicted to a statistically significant degree to substance use seventeen months later, and that earlier substance use also predicted to a statistically signif... |
The peptide PEC-60, structurally related to the pancreatic secretory trypsin inhibitor, inhibits glucose-induced insulin secretion. Here we report on the structure of a cDNA clone from pig duodenum encoding PEC-60. The cDNA encodes a 86-amino acid long precursor protein containing a 26-amino acid signal sequence, imply... |
BACKGROUND: The study of the sensitivity of screening assays is greatly facilitated by testing the sequential changes in seroconverting individuals. The aim of this study was to investigate the early immunologic response after hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection and to evaluate whether HCV envelope (E2) recombinant antig... |
THE 1989 White Paper, Working for Patients, contained the fateful phrase 'systematic critical analysis' in its definition of audit. The definition has been widely adopted, and with it the need to be systematic. This term is easily interpreted as continuous monitoring of the quality ofcare, a tendency encouraged by the ... |
The paper analyzes the current state of industry, which has special role in Azerbaijan economy, reveals the major problems in this sphere, and shows the perspectives of more efficient use of existing potential in improvement of industrial production and increase of product range. Therefore, one of the main research pri... |
Abstract The purpose of this research was to examine the goals and reputations of at‐risk and not at‐risk adolescent females in single‐sex and mixed‐sex school contexts. A total of 216 female students in Years 8, 9, and 11 (aged 13, 14, and 16 years) from six secondary schools in one of the capital cities of Australia ... |
This list is part of an annotated bibliography of scholarly and critical work. The earlier parts were published in Brontë Studies, 32.2 (July 2007), 33.3 (November 2008), 34.3 (November 2009), 36.4 (November 2011), 37.3 (September 2012), 39.1 (January 2014), 41.3 (September 2016), 42.4 (November 2017), 43.4 (October 20... |
MBFT shows significant improvement ovcz a single large BANG fife in the number of disk acccsseJ for range and panial queries. As the fraction of the total data se-archedbecomes smafler, the improvements korne mom dramaac. The absolute reduction m disk accesses is mhanced as the range increases, or the number ol attribu... |
Researchers globally have adopted different techniques for simulating the effects of corrosion on reinforced concrete (RC) sections in different experimental studies. Application of Faraday’s law remains the most commonly used technique for designing and controlling accelerated corrosion regimes for testing RC sections... |
Pulmonary embolism (PE) and deep vein thrombosis are two facets of the same disease, that is, venous thromboembolism (VTE). In patients with angiographically proven PE, the prevalence of proximal deep vein thrombosis by venography is around 70%. The sensitivity of compression ultrasonography (US) for the diagnosis of a... |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.