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The past 10-15 yr have witnessed a rapid increase in the development of new (and not so new) statistical methods that capitalize on recent advances in high-speed computing. These computer-intensive methods are often broadly referred to as resampling techniques and take several forms depending on the specific details of... |
Various agents are used for the medical management of chronic constipation but few have been carefully studied. This review examines available data concerning several bulk and fiber products, lubricating agents, stimulants, and osmotic laxatives, alone and in combination. Popular therapeutic options for initial treatme... |
The nation’s largest health insurer recently launched an experimental cancer care payment program that disconnects physician reimbursement from drug sales and encourages oncologists to follow standardized regimens. The goal is not just to reduce costs — although United Healthcare (UHC) does hope that the pilot program ... |
The prevalence of cytomegalovirus (CMV) IgG antibody was determined in 573 pregnant women in the first trimester. The overall prevalence of CMV IgG antibody was 77.5%. The rate of seropositivity was 67.7% in women < 25 yr, and increased with age to 85.7% in women ≧40 yr. These results imply that young women in Japan ar... |
Alcohol abuse has long‐term deleterious effects on the immune system, and results in reduced function of CD4+T lymphocytes, which regulate both innate and adaptive immunity. T lymphocyte activation via T‐cell receptor (TCR) involves the plasma membrane lipid raft‐dependent aggregation of proteins into the immunological... |
The paper presents contemporary data of foreign and Russian researchers on the healthy nutrition of schoolchildren. An analysis of the existing forms and principles of school catering is provided; school rations around the world, different approaches to their formation, and new school nutrition standards in the USA and... |
While the impacts of dams are known, there are gaps in our understanding, particularly with respect to longitudinal patterns of environmental and biological gradients downstream of dams. We investigated longitudinal patterns of stable isotope ratios of carbon and nitrogen in brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) in the r... |
The regulation of vertical restraints is a long-standing facet of competition law, governed at the European level by Article 101 TFEU. However, in the new era of digitization, algorithmic price monitoring and price setting has the potential to lead to rapid and widespread price changes across entire online marketplaces... |
Streptomyces ambofaciens produces the macrolide antibiotic spiramycin, an inhibitor of protein synthesis, and possesses multiple resistance mechanisms to the produced antibiotic. Several resistance determinants have been isolated from S. ambofaciens and studies with one of them, srmA, which hybridized with ermE (the er... |
ABSTRACT: Mosquito vectors play a crucial role in the distribution of avian Plasmodium parasites worldwide. At northern latitudes, where climate warming is most pronounced, there are questions about possible changes in the abundance and distribution of Plasmodium parasites, their vectors, and their impacts to avian hos... |
In this article, we present a recovery‐based a posteriori error estimator for finite volume methods which use the conforming linear trial functions to approximate elliptic interface problems. The reliability and efficiency bounds for the error estimator are established by recovering the flux from a weighted L2 projecti... |
Neural network language model (NN LM), such as long short term memory (LSTM) LM, has been increasingly popular due to its promising performance. However, the model size of an uncompressed NN LM is still too large to be used in embedded or portable devices. The dominant part of memory consumption of NN LM is the word em... |
To enable the development of automated support for design, a challenge is to model and analyse dynamics of design processes in a formal manner. This paper contributes a declarative, logical approach for specification of dynamic properties of design processes, supported by a formal temporal language. 'This language is u... |
A tragedy of beauty has occurred in Western culture and perhaps worldwide: The importance of beauty for a flourishing and self-actualizing life is largely going unnoticed by both the general public and by psychologists. Philosophers, sacred scriptures, and a range of empirical findings point to the centrality of engagi... |
In this paper, we examine the potential of incorporating transparent, handheld devices into head-mounted Augmented Reality (AR). Additional mobile devices have long been successfully used in head-mounted AR, but they obscure the visual context and real world objects during interaction. Transparent tangible displays can... |
For over five years, post-acute burns care for children in regional areas of Queensland has been provided by vidéoconférence. Some 300 specialist burns consultations are conducted by vidéoconférence annually. To support regional health professionals, particularly occupational therapists who play an integral role in the... |
INTRODUCTION |
A few electrocardiographic criteria have been described to identify the infarct-related artery in inferior myocardial infarction. The aim of this study was to devise an arithmetic score to further improve the diagnostic accuracy. |
MATERIALS AND METHODS |
From 2004 to 2006, 78 patients who underwent primary angioplasty for inferior myocardial infarction within 6 hours from symptom onset were recruited for electrocardiographic and angiographic analysis. |
RESULTS |
The mean age of patients was 65 ± 12 years with male predominance (74%). Less ST depression in lead I and aVL, and more prominent ST depression in lead V1-3 were observed in left circumflex artery (LCX) than right coronary artery (RCA) occlusions. In addition, more prominent ST depression in lead I and ST elevation in ... |
CONCLUSION |
By taking into account more leads, the JIM score is capable of identifying the infarct-related artery with an improved diagnostic accuracy.Via-Programmable Structured ASIC Fabric Based on MCML Cells: Design Flow and Implementation |
This paper presents a regular layout fabric made of via-programmable MCML universal logic cells for structured ASIC applications and the associated design flow. The proposed structured ASIC fabric offers very high noise immunity due to the differential operation, as well as low production cost due to the via-programmab... |
The paper presents the comparison between the traditional activated sludge system (AS) and a hybrid moving bed biofilm reactor (HMBBR). In particular, an experimental campaign has been carried out at the WWTP in Palermo (Italy), on a pilot plant consisting of two pre-anoxic schemes. The aerated tank of the HMBBR line w... |
For the multl-sample regression model , the problem of testing equality of intercepts following a preliminarytest on the equality o f slopes is considered. The t e s t s are based on the conventional least squares estimators (without necessarily assuming the normality of the underlying error distributions ) , and the i... |
Work of breathing accounts for a significant proportion of total oxygen consumption in neonates and infants. Endotracheal tube inner diameter and length significantly affect airflow resistance and thus work of breathing. While endotracheal tube shortening reduces endotracheal tube resistance, the impact on work of brea... |
ABSTRACT Turkish author Ihsan Oktay Anar’s The Book of Devices (2017, Kitab-ı Hiyel) employs pseudo-steampunk characteristics in a pre-modern Ottoman context. The novel experiments with the possibility of steampunk’s expansion as a translated/adopted cultural element within the larger concept of world literature. I arg... |
OBJECTIVE |
To adapt the Lithuanian "SF-36" questionnaire, to assess psychometric and life quality criteria for patients with rheumatoid arthritis and for control group. |
MATERIAL AND METHODS |
Linguistic and cross-cultural adaptation of the Lithuanian "SF-36" questionnaire was made on the basis of the stages referred to in the international project of health quality assessment. For the evaluation of psychometric criteria, data from Vilnius rheumatoid arthritis register (502 patients) and those of the control... |
RESULTS |
After making linguistic and cultural adaptation of the questionnaire, its final version has been prepared. In assessing the homogeneity of "SF-36", a high and middle-sized correlation between different items of the questionnaire has been noticed in the control group (r=0.51-0.71) and in patients with rheumatoid arthrit... |
CONCLUSIONS |
Questions of health-related quality of life questionnaire are easy to understand and acceptable for the respondents. Reliability and validity of the questionnaire is rather high. For the exception of emotional status, quality of life in almost all spheres was considered as bad by patients with rheumatoid arthritis. The... |
Studies of interactive systems in museums have raised important design considerations, but so far have failed to address sufficiently the particularities of family interaction and co-operation. This paper introduces qualitative video-based observations of Japanese families using an interactive portable guide system in ... |
Particle-stabilized emulsion systems have been developed to address the problematic properties of conventional surfactants. However, the nature and properties of the fine particles used in such systems remain a critical issue for stability enhancement. Herein, we describe a thermo-switchable oil-in-water (O/W) particle... |
The benefits of using transmitting phased array antennas for radar systems are examined. Accurate performance prediction for the transmitting phased array antennas requires theories describing both the antenna system and the power generation devices. These theories were created and applied to the design and performance... |
The positive matrix factorization (PMF) receptor model was used for the first time to quantify the source contributions to heavy metal pollution of sediment on a national basin scale in the upstream, midstream, and downstream rivers (Teesta and Kortoya‐Shitalakkah and Meghna‐Rupsha and Pasur) of Bangladesh. The metal c... |
The degradation in lateral double-diffused MOS (LDMOS) is increased obviously with the higher operation drain voltage and the shrink of technology node. Therefore, it is important to study the damage of degradation, which is caused by the long- term hot carrier stress (HCS). Recently, the TCAD tools have already used t... |
Although there is discordance between human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) blood plasma and seminal plasma viral loads (VL), little is known about the dynamics of VL rebound in these compartments upon discontinuation of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART). Therefore, we sought to examine the relationship between... |
In this paper, we present ENWiC (EduNuggets Wiki Crawler), a framework for intelligent visualization of Wikis. In recent years, e-learning has emerged as an appealing alternative to traditional teaching. The effectiveness of e-Learning is depended upon the sharing of information on the web, which makes the web a vast l... |
Proteins from the family of the green fluorescent protein (GFP) are presently extensively used in molecular and cellular biology. Recent studies suggest that isomerization of the chromophore occurs upon excitation and is involved in nonradiative deactivation. Using Raman spectroscopy, we report on photoinduced cis-tran... |
Purpose |
The purpose of this paper is to provide an insight into the voluntary corporate governance disclosure and AC practices among Malaysian property listed companies. Along with that, the influence of AC characteristics on voluntary corporate governance disclosure was also examined. |
Design/methodology/approach |
The study used the content analysis of annual reports to extract voluntary corporate governance disclosures and audit committee (AC) practices. The relationship between voluntary corporate governance disclosures and AC characteristics was examined by using the panel data regression analysis. |
Findings |
Based on the results of the study, it can be concluded that all three variables: AC size, AC independence and AC meetings are the factors that influence the level of voluntary corporate governance disclosure among sampled companies. |
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