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Prolonged PA-TDI duration was independently associated with new-onset AF in patients with HCM. This novel parameter could be useful to risk-stratify patients with HCM who are at risk of having AF.On the Persistence and Attrition of Women in Mathematics |
The purpose of this study was to investigate what motivates women to choose mathematics as an undergraduate major and to further explore what shapes their future career goals, paying particular attention to their undergraduate experiences and their perceptions of the role of gender in these decisions. A series of semi-... |
Background: Optoelectronic motion capture may provide a platform for the development of objective biomechanical outcome measures applicable to the young, active individual with lower limb loss. In order to create valid and robust tools, the modelling strategy applied must adequately represent both natural and prostheti... |
Asymptotic tests for fractional integration are usually badly sized in small samples, even for normally distributed processes. Furthermore, tests that are well-sized under normality may be severely distorted by non-normalities and ARCH errors. This paper demonstrates how the bootstrap can be implemented to correct for ... |
By dividing subapertures, accumulating signal coherently stage by stage in polar format coordinate, Fast Factorized BPA (FFBPA) avoids the progress in Back-Projection Algorithm (BPA) of repeatedly searching every signal in full aperture for every pixel. Thus the amount of computation is remarkably reduced. Theoreticall... |
Access to prenatal healthcare for East African Somali Speaking Women (EASSW) who are immigrants to the U.S. has been dependent on the availability of a systematic healthcare treatment model. The purpose of this study was to explore EASSW's lived experiences in accessing prenatal healthcare services in the U.S. A descri... |
In this paper we employ detrended fluctuation analysis (DFA) technique to estimate the local Hurst exponent of Shanghai Stock Exchange Composite (SSEC) index, which is used to predict the crash or other drastic decreases in Chinese stock market. We assume the local Hurst exponent can be used to as a measurement of actu... |
The authors report three human cases of cowpox infection, among farm workers who were manually milking infected cows, in the microregion of Itajubá, Minas Gerais. The diagnostic techniques used were: isolation of samples similar to the vaccinia virus, from skin lesion secretions; polymerase chain reaction; electronic m... |
With their beautiful and primitive visual arts and crafts, Taiwan’s aboriginal cultures offer great potential for enhancing design value and becoming recognized in the global market. Evidence shows very high prospects for Taiwan’s local cultures to become crucial cultural elements in future design applications. The pur... |
In 1999 and 2000 the boundary between Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan became a concrete and violent reality in the lives of those living in the Ferghana Valley border area. This dissertation asks why this happened, and what the effects on populations in the Valley were. It argues that ‘the border’ acted as both a material an... |
The scope of the environmentally benign direct C–H arylation polymerization (DARP) process is validated and significantly extended in the synthesis of a high-performance benzodithiophene-based copolymer series, PBDT(Ar)-FTTE, with previously untested and systematically varied heteroaryl (Ar) substituents. Bulk-heteroju... |
It is discussed, how scheduling problems can be solved in the concurrent constraint programming language Oz. Oz is the rst high-level constraint language, which ooers an interface to invent new constraints in an eecient way using C++. Its multi-paradigm features including programmable search are unique in the eld of co... |
Acalypha indica.L one of the traditional medicinal small annual shrubs belongs to the Euphorbiaceous Family, it grows up to 30-75 cm in height and is distributed in wet, temperate and tropical areas. It is available in gardens, road sides and throughout India. In the present work, we try to assess the antioxidant enzym... |
While the vision of Internet of Things (IoT) is rather inspiring, its practical implementation remains challenging. Conventional programming approaches prove unsuitable to provide IoT resource constrained devices with the distributed processing capabilities required to implement intelligent, autonomic, and self-organiz... |
ABSTRACT The design of annular fin array with variable thickness fin profiles defined by B-spline curves is studied as a multi-objective optimization problem for simultaneously maximizing heat transfer rate and minimizing thermal stress. Maximization of surface efficiency and augmentation factor as well as minimization o... |
In today’s dynamic and competitive business environment, probabilistic load forecasting is becoming increasingly important to utilities for quantifying the uncertainties in the future. Among the various approaches to generating probabilistic load forecasts, feeding simulated weather scenarios to a point load forecastin... |
A complex study of hemodynamics and renal function in 30 patients with adenoma of the prostate during peridural anesthesia has been carried out. The functional renal reaction depends upon the scope of the sympathetic blocade in peridural anesthesia and bears an intimate relation to hemodynamic and neurohumoral effects ... |
Five healthy men carried out a program of head-down bed rest (BR) for 20 days. Before and after BR, a series of cross-sectional scans of the thigh were performed using magnetic resonance imaging, from which volumes of the quadriceps muscles were determined and physiological cross-sectional areas (PCSA) were calculated.... |
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the commonest cause of dementia, characterized by the clinical presentation of progressive anterograde episodic memory impairment. However, atypical presentation of patients is increasingly recognized. These atypical AD include logopenic aphasia, behavioural variant AD, posterior cortical at... |
Reconnaissance systems planners need to know the performance of airborne sensor systems. This performance is measured in the quality of the imagery produced. Image quality is almost undefinable and is a complex of physical factors of which one or more are usually measured; such as sharpness, resolution, etc. The Air Fo... |
Etozolin, a new diuretic agent, has shown a dose-dependent diuretic and saluretic effect in both experimental and clinical studies. Etoxolin, when compared to furosemide or thiazides, exerts a similar effect on urinary excretion of water and Na+, but induces a lower urinary K+ and Cl- excretion and a smaller activation... |
The effects of chemical thinning after annealing were examined on amorphous Fe-base alloy ribbons with different thicknesses (25 and 60 mu m) to further improve their core loss. The core loss of a 60- mu m-thick ribbon decreased with thickness reduction and reached a minimum (0.04 W/kg at 50 Hz and 1.3 T) at 10 mu m. O... |
The aim of this paper research its to explore the relationship of risk with the IFA hotel and resort. Dubai, Arab in 5 years trend starting 2012 until 2015. This paper finds the type of indicator that being used as measuring the performance to be analyst and knows their strengths and weakness. Not only that, by overloo... |
The most sensitive method of venous air embolism (VAE) detection in clinical use is the precordial Doppler detector. Because the Doppler detector may provide false-positive and false-negative data, many clinicians rely on end-tidal gas measurements for verification of VAE in the operating room. End-tidal nitrogen (ETN2... |
A Fe-based amorphous composite coating was deposited on a carbon steel substrate by arc spraying, and remelted with different laser energies by the Nd: YAG laser cladding system, in order to improve the mechanical properties of the coatings. The microstructure and microhardness of the composite coatings were investigat... |
The interaction between eukaryotic translation initiation factor 4G (eIF4G) and the poly(A)-binding protein (PABP) facilitates translational initiation of polyadenylated mRNAs. It was shown recently that the expression of an eIF4GI mutant defective in PABP binding in Xenopus oocytes reduces polyadenylated mRNA translat... |
(1) Background: Evaluation of wind environments regarding pedestrian comfort may unveil potential hotspot areas, particularly in the context of the rapid urban development in China since the 1990s. (2) Method: With primary schools in Nanjing as case studies, the authors simulated the wind environment of schoolyards wit... |
Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are the main cause of death worldwide. A broad study of the pathogenetic mechanisms of the CVD onset and progression has led to understanding of the importance of endothelial dysfunction (ED) in these processes. During recent years intensive work has been conducted in the direction of sear... |
BACKGROUND |
Bipolar disorder is a recurrent illness that is amongst the top 30 causes of disability worldwide and is associated with significant healthcare costs. In the past, emphasis was placed solely on the treatment of acute episodes of bipolar disorder; recently, the importance of episode prevention and of minimisation of iat... |
OBJECTIVES |
1. To determine the efficacy of valproate continuation and maintenance treatment:a) in preventing or attenuating manic, depressive and mixed episodes of bipolar disorder;b) in preventing or attenuating episodes of bipolar disorder in patients with rapid cycling disorder; and; c) in improving patients' general health an... |
SEARCH METHODS |
Search of the Cochrane Register of Controlled Trials and the Cochrane Depression, Anxiety and Neurosis Group Register (CCDANCTR) (to January 2013), which includes relevant randomised controlled trials from the following bibliographic databases: The Cochrane Library (all years), EMBASE, (1974 to date), MEDLINE (1950 to ... |
SELECTION CRITERIA |
Randomised controlled trials allocating participants with bipolar disorder to long-term treatment with valproate or any other mood stabiliser, or antipsychotic drugs, or placebo. Maintenance treatment was defined as treatment instituted specifically or mainly to prevent further episodes of illness. |
DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS |
Three review authors independently extracted data. A double-entry procedure was employed by two review authors. Information extracted included study characteristics, participant characteristics, intervention details and outcome measures in terms of efficacy, acceptability and tolerability. For dichotomous data, risk ra... |
MAIN RESULTS |
Six randomised controlled trials (overall 876 participants) lasting 6 to 24 months were included. Two studies (overall 312 participants) compared valproate with placebo, four studies (overall 618 participants) valproate with lithium, one study (overall 23 participants) valproate with olanzapine and one study (overall 2... |
AUTHORS' CONCLUSIONS |
Limited evidence supports the efficacy of valproate in the long-term treatment of bipolar disorder. Clinicians and patients should consider acceptability and tolerability profile when choosing between lithium and valproate-their combination or other agents-as long-term treatment for bipolar disorder.Antihistamines and ... |
ABSTRACT: Antihistamines that bind to the histamine 1 receptor (H1) serve as important therapeutic agents to counter the effects of histamine in the skin. Two generations of antihistamines exist; however, second‐generation agents are more advantageous because they cause less sedation, have a longer half life and are m... |
BACKGROUND |
A review of published cases, in addition to a recently treated patient, is presented that describes the clinical features and outcomes of triazole therapy for vertebral aspergillosis in immunocompetent patients. |
METHODS |
Using the Medline database, cases of vertebral aspergillosis in immunocompetent patients treated with triazole were reviewed. Clinical and radiological findings, therapeutic interventions, and outcomes were analyzed. RESULTS.: Twenty-one cases of vertebral aspergillosis treated with itraconazole or voriconazole were id... |
CONCLUSIONS |
This report extends the information on invasive aspergillosis in immunocompetent patients and supports the conclusion that triazole therapy should be considered for this serious infection.Selling stories of social justice. How consumers react to and learn from social ads |
Advertising strategies are constantly changing and today, companies often take a position regarding current social topics in their advertis-ing messages. With two experimental studies using actual ads, we explore how people react to and learn from social ads regarding particular social issues they tackle. With the firs... |
Cryo-balloon catheters have attracted an increasing amount of interest in the medical community as they can reduce patient risk during left atrial pulmonary vein ablation procedures. As cryo-balloon catheters are not equipped with electrodes, they cannot be localized automatically by electro-anatomical mapping systems.... |
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