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The debate on industrial policy (IP) has been characterized by a number of contractions over the concept of industrial policy, its merits, contents and application. The purpose of this exploratory paper is to review the debate on IP. Outlining the concept and instruments of industrial policy, the paper reviews the evol... |
OBJECTIVES |
Analyze the ethical duties and dilemmas involved in treating the severely hypothyroid patient. |
DESIGN |
A critical review of the literature was conducted with respect to clinical ethics issues pertaining to severe hypothyroidism; legal and ethical guidelines for consent and capacity in the context of severe hypothyroidism; health case law involving the duty to warn third parties; and comparable clinical conditions result... |
MAIN OUTCOME |
Neuropsychological studies and accepted clinical experiences verify the variable degrees of intellectual and neurological impairment consequent to severe hypothyroidism. Thus, severely hypothyroid patients are considered impaired in the performance of specific tasks, such as driving. Consequent to that, they may be age... |
CONCLUSIONS |
The legal and ethical "duty to warn" may trump confidentiality and HIPAA in cases where the activity of impaired patients seriously affects public safety. Not only do health care providers have a clear duty to warn patients not to drive, but in some extreme cases, may have a duty to warn third parties when a patient's ... |
After exposure for two hours to cattle with foot-and-mouth disease, each of the five species of deer found in the British countryside became infected. Clinical disease was typical and severe in the roe and muntjac deer, with some animals dying, less severe in the sika deer and usually subclinical in the fallow and red ... |
Abstract In this work characteristics of the polycarbonate films with 20 μm in thickness containing different weight percentage of Benzo-δ-sultam were studied for use as a high dose dosimetry system in radiation processing facilities. The sensitivity of the dosimeters and the linearity of dose-response curves were inve... |
Long-term care institutions shelter a large number of dependent elderly, although dependence is not the sine qua non condition for elderly institutionalization. This study aimed at identifying the independence level for the performance of activities of daily living (ADLs) of elderly residents in long-term care institut... |
Abstract Using a case study of a controversial mine in an indigenous area of Guatemala, this article explores the transnational dynamics of development and regulation of large-scale extractive industry projects in the developing world. It examines the roles played in the Marlin mine dispute by national law, internation... |
MicroRNAs (miRs) are a large family of short 20 - 25-nt single-stranded noncoding RNAs, recently identified in many eukaryotes from nematode to human, which play an important role in gene regulation. Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are the most common genetic variants in the human genome, and an immense source o... |
Abstract Midguts and salivary glands of newly hatched larvae (L1) of Dermatobia hominis (L., Jr.) were studied using light and electron microscopy. The larval midgut has a tubular, sinusoidal form and consists of a monolayer of epithelial cells with an underlying basement membrane and a surrounding layer of connective ... |
It is common knowledge that in recent years doctors have begun recommending and performing far more deliveries by Cesarean section than ever before.1 What is less well known is that in an increasing number of cases, courts are requiring women who resist this recommendation to "follow doctor's orders." Only one of these... |
Computer vision technology has been widely used in many applications and devices that involves biometric recognition. One of them is gender classification which has notable challenges when dealing with unique facial characteristics of human races. Not to mention the challenges from various poses of face and the lightin... |
A three-dimensional lattice Boltzmann method, which couples the color-gradient model for two-phase fluid dynamics with a lattice diffusion-advection scheme for the elastic stress tensor, is developed to study the deformation and breakup of a Newtonian droplet in the Giesekus fluid matrix under simple shear flow. This m... |
Objectives: Understanding the characteristics of suicide attempts in people undergoing treatment for first episode psychosis (FEP) may have implications for risk management at a service level and local suicide prevention strategies. Although studies have focused on identifying individual-level risk factors for suicide ... |
This paper is devoted to studying the dynamics of two-species commensalism (amensalism) systems with delays. We first study the system with a distributed delay but without the discrete delay, investigate the local stabilities of equilibria and prove the existence of transcritical bifurcation. Then, we study the system ... |
There is now overwhelming experimental and clinical evidence that atherosclerosis is a chronic inflammatory disease. Lessons from genome-wide association studies, advanced in vivo imaging techniques, transgenic lineage tracing mice, and clinical interventional studies have shown that both innate and adaptive immune mec... |
A quad-band compact, frequency-reconfigurable patch-type antenna is presented, designed to operate fully integrated on a full real-life printed circuit board (PCB), taking also into account the effect of a number of electronic components distributed on the board. Reconfigurability is obtained through a set of shorting ... |
Osteoporosis affects an estimated 44 million Americans. This condition results from bone loss, but the measured change in bone mass does not fully account for the marked decrease in whole-bone structural integrity seen in osteoporosis. In order to study structural changes in bone mineral distribution due to normal agei... |
de Graan-Hentzen et al(1987) reported the iuse of leucocytepoor blood components to prevent primary CMV infection in patients with acute leukaemia; 38 CMV-seronegative patients remained seronegative 3 months after the start of remission induction therapy, although there was no control group in their study. We report th... |
Preface This volume contains selected papers presented at the 10th International Workshop on High-pT Physics in the RHIC/LHC Era. The workshop was held from 9-12 September 2014 at Subatech Nantes, France. The rst workshop of this series was organized 2006 in Trento, Italy. The purpose of the 10th workshop was to offer ... |
March issue of the Canadian Medical Association Journal. The selection of appropriate cases is of the greatest importance: only reducible hernias capable of proper control by a truss are suitable, and the small reducible inguinal hernia appears to be the most suitable. The solutions employed have been many and varied, ... |
Introduction To evaluate the number of patients that achieved loss of at least 10% of their excess body weight prior to undergoing laparoscopic gastric bypass or gastric band surgery. Methods Forty consecutive patients (mean age 48.28 (SD 10.52); 36 females) that underwent laparoscopic gastric bypass or gastric band su... |
Predialysis nephrologist care is associated with morbidity and mortality in incident dialysis patients, but the relationship with access to kidney transplantation (KT) is unclear. From a national study of incident US dialysis patients, we identified 2253 patients with detailed information about predialysis care, sociod... |
In contrast to other organisms, which have a completely variable determination of their life span, man has achieved a prolongation of his life span. Previously, the minority surviving to old age were honoured for a fulfilled life. Today society must cope with a large number of ill as well as active elderly individuals.... |
1,25-Dihydroxycholecalciferol (1,25-D3) has significant antitumor effects in the murine squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) tumor model in vitro and in vivo. We investigated the basis for this antiproliferative activity and found that, in vitro, 1,25-D3 administration is associated with altered expression of cell cycle regul... |
Although operator-valued kernels have recently received increasing interest in various machine learning and functional data analysis problems such as multi-task learning or functional regression, little attention has been paid to the understanding of their associated feature spaces. In this paper, we explore the potent... |
This paper presents methods to the construction of regular and irregular low-density parity- check (LDPC) codes based on Euclidean geometries. Codes constructed by these methods are quasi-cyclic. The degree distributions of proposed LDPC codes can be optimized by the curve fitting approach in the extrinsic information ... |
Abstract This exploratory study is the first to examine how courtroom personnel conceive of and navigate Maine’s unique policy of felon-juror inclusion. Findings derived from interviews with trial judges and trial attorneys in Maine, the only U.S. jurisdiction that does not restrict a convicted felon’s opportunity to s... |
This paper presents a new Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) for Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) of a mobile robot using a 3D Time Of Flight (TOF) camera. The proposed method employs an egomotion estimation algorithm to estimate the camera's egomotion, which is then used as the motion model by the EKF to estimat... |
Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) are major actors of the current telecommunication ecosystem. Our goal in this paper is to study their impact on other actors of the supply chain, especially on content innovation which is a key concern in the network neutrality debate where CDNs' role seems forgotten. Our findings indic... |
Through analyzing the characteristics of the layout of different shape objects, according to the basic idea of genetic algorithm, which is proposed based on the layout algorithm for different objects. The algorithm to select the appropriate encoding method, genetic operators and the appropriate adaptive function, The e... |
Abstract Employees working in cubicles of open-plan offices in Indonesia were studied in regard to their perception on the ability of indoor greenery to reduce noise levels. Sansevieria trifasciata and Scindapsus sp were used. Each was placed in the cubicle and noise levels were measured without plants, with Sansevieri... |
This paper presents a hybrid generator with a PM(Permanent Magnet) exciter to improve the operating efficiency, dynamic response and emergency starting characteristic. The proposed hybrid generator is designed by the parallel combination of the winding field and the PM field. In the proposed hybrid generator, the PM as... |
Debate on appropriate triggers for transfusion of allogeneic blood products and their effects on short- and long-term survival in surgical and critically ill patients continue with no definitive evidence or decisive resolution. Although transfusion-related immune modulation (TRIM) is well established, its influence on ... |
This paper examines the role of the Payout Ratio as a predictor of future earnings growth and returns in UK industry data. We find, contrary to the suppositions of many practitioners, industries that have low payout ratios (relative to the industry time-series mean) have low subsequent earnings growth. This suggests th... |
Infrastructure-to-vehicle (I2V) and vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications are often combined to extend the connectivity and coverage in the Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) and its applications, e.g., augmented reality, real-time parking management and online shopping. Through multi-hop I2V and V2V communicati... |
PURPOSE |
To evaluate the relationship between (a) pathologic levels of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) total tau as an index of the intensity of ongoing neuronal degeneration and (b) longitudinal changes in white matter (WM) integrity in patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI). |
MATERIALS AND METHODS |
Participants gave written informed consent, and the Norwegian committee for medical research ethics approved the study. Thirty patients with MCI and nonpathologic CSF total tau levels, nine patients with MCI and pathologic CSF total tau levels, and 16 age-matched healthy control subjects underwent diffusion-tensor imag... |
RESULTS |
Longitudinal analysis of regional WM change revealed significant decrease in FA (P = .038) and increase in D(R) (P = .018) in the MCI high-tau group relative to control subjects. For D(R), the changes were regionally specific to the right cingulum and the right superior and inferior longitudinal fasciculi. |
CONCLUSION |
Reduction in WM integrity was greater in patients with MCI who had the most intense neuronal degeneration as indexed by using CSF total tau, suggesting that these patients might represent a subgroup of MCI with more intense WM degeneration who are possibly at greater risk of developing Alzheimer disease.Correlation-awa... |
This paper considers the problem of localizing more correlated sources than sensors using an active antenna array. Two algorithms are proposed for coherent source localization with active sensing. The first algorithm builds upon our earlier work on correlation-aware sparse reconstruction, which constructs a sparse meas... |
Objective. To evaluate the effectiveness of brain evoked potentials for the objectivization of early cognitive disorders (CD) induced by cerebral and regional hypoperfusion. Materials and methods. The influence of hypoperfusion in vertebrobasilar territory (VBT) on characteristics of cognitive functions in 52 patients ... |
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