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Abstract. Because of its high altitude, the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau (QTP) serves as a de facto ecological barrier between China and Southeast Asia. Studying the phenological characteristics of vegetation on QTP and their response to climate change can help us to understand how climate change can impact on highland terr... |
In the Hippocratic writings, one reads: "...[the physician] should keep aware of the fact that patients often lie when they state that they have taken certain medicines." Obviously "noncompliance" or "drug defaulting" is nothing new. Why, then, are most doctors so insensitive to the possibility that their patients ofte... |
This study analyzed blog posts linked to the “Blue Whale” game in blogs. A Qualitative study was conducted on Tumblr Posts in Portuguese by searching for the string “baleia azul” (“blue whale”), and were submitted to thematic analysis. The main themes were: "Understanding and support", "Opposition to the game or the pl... |
BACKGROUND: Vascular tumors are a heterogeneous group of diseases with biological behavior ranging from a hamartomatous growth to frank malignant. The pathophysiology of lymphangioma, vascular malformation and hemangioma is interconnected, blood vessels known to be the site of origin of hamartomas, venous malformation... |
Aims of study Assessment of angiogenic potential in benign vascular lesions (hemangioma, lymphangioma and lobular capillary hemangioma) of head and neck region. |
Materials and Methods: Twenty-two formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissue blocks of Hemangioma/vascular malformation, thirty of lobular capillary hemangioma and another twenty of lymphangioma to be stained with Endothelial cell-Specific Molecule-1 (ESM-1) monoclonal antibody. |
Results: Microvessel density expressed by Endothelial cell-Specific Molecule-1 (ESM-1) immunomarker was found in all cases with mean density of (37.44±23.16) for lobular capillary hemangioma and (25.02±13.89) for hemangioma and (6.34±3.52) for lymphangioma. According to post hoc test ESM-1 marker expression showed a h... |
Conclusions: The obvious capillary growth in lobular capillary hemangioma revealed that lobular capillary hemangioma showed the highest activity of angiogenic potential in comparison to hemangioma and lymphangioma.Insights into feedback and feedback signaling for beamformer design |
Multi-site cooperative transmission is gaining industrial support in latest standard development. One key criteria to sucessfully implement a multi-site cooperative transmission system is the need to quantize an expanded set of channels. To maintain quantization precision, codebook size needs to scale roughly exponenti... |
The topic of international cooperation between national movements before the end of World War I (WWI) has still not received sufficient scholarly attention. It is common for national historiographies to concentrate on the case of their own nation. When it comes to international relations, however, connections with neig... |
Correlation of interphase death with cell volume reduction in rat thymocytes was examined using an automated cell size distribution analyzer. After x irradiation from 50 to 2000 r in vitro, cell suspension were incubated at 37/sup 0/C for 4 h. Measurement of cell size distribution during and after incubation demonstrat... |
Psychiatric disorders are becoming more frequently diagnosed within the pediatric primary care setting. Despite increased diagnosis within primary care, only a minority of patients receive further psychiatric or specialty care. The integrated/collaborative care treatment model was designed to improve access within prim... |
Usability testing is regarded as a key element in user-centered design. Several studies from the Standish Group have shown that usability testing increases the chance of developing usable software. Companies are faced with many challenges: their customers demand usable products at reasonable costs and the customer base... |
As the user advocate, the Information Technology student needs to be provided not only with hands-on experience in usability testing, but also with its nuances. These include an understanding of the wide range of formats and options available such as remote usability testing. Moreover, a remote format may be a solutio... |
The focus of our study was to identify appropriate tools and define methodologies for efficient and effective remote testing environments. We investigated commercial tools to determine their usefulness and cost-effectiveness for the classroom and then conducted an empirical study to compare traditional and remote usab... |
GOALS/BACKGROUND |
Hemospray is a new hemostatic powder recently approved for endoscopic hemostasis in gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding. Data are limited in terms of its clinical outcomes, and its role in the treatment algorithm of GI bleeds. We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis to study the clinical performance of Hemospray ... |
STUDY |
We searched multiple databases from inception through March 2019 to identify studies that reported on the clinical outcomes of Hemospray in GI bleeding. The primary outcome was pooled rates of clinical success after the application of Hemospray in GI bleeding. The secondary outcomes were pooled rebleeding rates and adv... |
RESULTS |
A total of 19 studies, 814 patients, of which 212 patients were treated with Hemospray as monotherapy, and 602 patients were treated with Hemospray with conventional hemostatic techniques. Overall pooled clinical success after the application of Hemospray was 92% [95% confidence interval (95% CI), 87%-96%; I=70.4%]. Ov... |
CONCLUSIONS |
Hemospray is highly effective in achieving immediate hemostasis in gastrointestinal bleeding. However, due to significantly high rebleeding rates, Hemospray is not suited for definitive long-term therapy.Local Contest, National Impact: Understanding the Success of India’s Aam Aadmi Party in 2015 Delhi Assembly Election |
In this paper, I discuss how a relatively new anti-corruption political party in India—the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)—was able to achieve an unprecedented electoral victory in the 2015 Delhi assembly election, comprehensively defeating the two national parties—the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress Party. Althoug... |
Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT) solvers are powerful tools that can quickly solve complex constraints involving Booleans, integers, first-order logic predicates, lists, and other data types. They have a vast number of potential applications, from constraint solving to program analysis and verification. However, th... |
Within 1 to 3 weeks after the application of liquid livestock feces, the soil benzyloxycarbonyl-l-phenylalanyl-l-leucinase (z-FLase) and caseinase activities in upland fields (120 t feces ha−1 year−1, 600 t feces ha−1 year−1) increased to the maximum levels (z-FLase 562 pKat and 840 pKat g−1 dry soil, respectively; cas... |
Most industries, including hospitals, understand that recognizing employees for doing a good job helps increase their productivity and job satisfaction. And that is no doubt why they do it. But is it ethical? Is it all right to give someone a deserving pat on the back if the pat on the back is also self-serving? The mo... |
We represent sound signals as general functional compositions, called "Timbre Trees". Externally these are LISP-like expressions, internally they are implemented as C++ data structures. Nodes of the tree can be arithmetic operations, analytic functions or noise generators. Vectorized operations are provided for compact... |
Situational awareness for industrial vehicles is crucial to ensure safety of personnel and equipment. While human drivers and onboard sensors are able to detect obstacles and pedestrians within line-of-sight, in complex environments, initially occluded or obscured dynamic objects can unpredictably enter the path of a v... |
August 4, 2020 501 Brett B. Yarusi, MD Vikrant S. Jagadeesan, MD Daniel R. Schimmel, MD, MS Information about a real patient is presented in stages (boldface type) to expert clinicians (Drs Yarusi, Jagadeesan, and Schimmel), who respond to the information and share their reasoning with the reader (regular type). A disc... |
The toxicity of organometallic compounds may arise from the level of their adsorption to the lipid phase of biological membranes. It is also assumed that the toxicity of some organometallic compounds may relates to their free-radical properties with respect to lipids, proteins and DNA, under certain conditions. It is v... |
A new and compact a pre-bunched terahertz (THz) free electron laser (FEL) at the National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, University of Science and Technology of China is being constructed and aims to generate the tunable radiation frequency ranges from 0.5 THz to 5 THz at 11 18 Mev electron energy. This system is ex... |
Energy problems take the first place among the most important problems and tasks which should be solved by a society in the XXI century. The existing resource base of energy on which all economic activities of mankind are based is exhaustible, and already in the foreseeable future. In this connection the issues of ener... |
Hinged to a conversation between the author and her friend and colleague (now deceased) in Australia in 1993, this essay examines an ethical and conceptual gap that opens between an analytic that focuses on the disruptive nature of enjoyment in heteronormative orders and the distributional price of exceeding the Law in... |
ABSTRACT Ethnographic research conducted in the classroom of a Black woman teacher in an urban community college reveals the presence of two distinct but culturally appropriate ways of speaking. Drawing on performance theory, this article analyzes two speech events through which the teacher establishes and maintains co... |
OBJECTIVE |
To determine the incidence and prevalence of clinically significant ankylosing spondylitis (AS) in Finland. |
METHODS |
The incidence study covered patients entitled under the nationwide sickness insurance scheme to receive specially reimbursed medication for AS in 5/21 central hospital districts in Finland (population base about one million adults > or = 16 years of age) in 1980, 1985, and 1990. The prevalence study covered a represent... |
RESULTS |
The annual incidence of AS requiring antirheumatic medication was 6.9/100,000 [95% confidence interval (CI), 6.0-7.8] adults. Eleven cases of clinically significant AS were encountered in the prevalence study, corresponding to a prevalence of 0.15% (95% CI, 0.08-0.27%). The ratio between the prevalence rate and the ann... |
CONCLUSION |
This study provides population based data on the incidence and prevalence of clinically significant AS in Finland. The incidence rates of AS remained similar for the 3 study years.Nitrosamine formation in amine scrubbing at desorber temperatures. |
Amine scrubbing is a thermodynamically efficient and industrially proven method for carbon capture, but amine solvents can nitrosate in the desorber, forming potentially carcinogenic nitrosamines. The kinetics of reactions involving nitrite and monoethanolamine (MEA), diethanolamine (DEA), methylethanolamine (MMEA), an... |
Developing accurate and robust phonetic models for the different speech sounds is a major challenge for high performance continuous speech recognition. In this paper, we introduce a new approach, called the stochastic segment model, for modelling a variable-length phonetic segment X, an L-long sequence of feature vecto... |
In order to meet data acquisition mobility and convenient requirements of the portable ECG monitor, the data acquisition system of ECG with dual CPU is designed in this paper. The system, in which C8051F005 is master CPU, meanwhile ATmega168 is slave CPU, consists of analogical circuit for detecting of ECG, amplifier-f... |
Background: Analysis of exhaled volatile organic compounds (VOCs) may be applied for diagnostic purposes in some chronic diseases, but there are no data on their role for discriminating people with congestive heart failure (CHF), particularly in older patients where natriuretic peptides have lower accuracy. We evaluate... |
1 Department of Physiology, Father Muller’s Medical College, Kankanady, 2 Department of Bioscience, Mangalore University, Karnataka. Address for Correspondences Ltha Rajendra Kumar, Present address: Faculty of Medicine, Asian Institute of Medical Science and Technology, Semeling, Kedah, Malaysia. email: drlata34in2001@... |
The remarkable mechanical robustness and excellent electrical/thermal properties make graphene a promising candidate for future flexible, stretchable and bio-integrated electronics. In practice, many soft electronics such as the graphene electronic tattoos (GETs) demand the chemical vapor deposited (CVD) graphene to be... |
Global unemployment has risen in the past few years. Spatial data are required to address the problem effectively. South African unemployment literature focused mostly at a national level of spatial analysis. Some literature refer to spatial aspects that affect unemployment trends, but does not assign a location, e.g. ... |
Geminin is a nuclear protein that performs the related functions of modulating cell cycle progression by binding Cdt1, and controlling differentiation by binding transcription factors. Since embryonic stem cells (ESC) and the epiblast share a similar gene expression profile and an attenuated cell cycle, ESC form an acc... |
As UK households gain access to the internet, many questions arise for social scientists and policy makers. This working paper overviews a project designed to understand the balance of opportunities and risks afforded to children and young people by the diffusion and appropriation of the internet in everyday life. The ... |
In a culturally diverse world, teachers adopt complex roles to educate a changing student body toward higher standards. They can respond to students’ needs and design responsive curriculum by engaging in ongoing learning and improvement. When teachers have time and space for collaboration and reflection, they can learn... |
The hydrolysis mechanisms of DNA dinucleotide analogue BNPP(-) (bis(p-nitrophenyl) phosphate) catalyzed by mononuclear/dinuclear facial copper(ii) complexes bearing single alkyl guanidine pendants were investigated using density functional theory (DFT) calculations. Active catalyst forms have been investigated and four... |
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