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Present RF front-end limiters were widely used to prevent physical damage to low noise amplifier or mixer circuits in the environment of HIRF and EMP radiation. As the limiters were generally designed on the base of passive PIN diode circuits, their output limited power was greater than 10 dBm, which could result in sa... |
When executing radiotherapy through Californium Neutron Knife, it is important to build Mathematics Model of Spatial Point and Plan Linear Programming of Radiotherapentic Dosage. In this paper, through frontal and side two-dimensional images of applicator, location-wire and human body reference point, we can get the tw... |
Much qualitative analysis does not employ careful causal inference, and the quantitative alternative cannot be applied successfully where there are few cases, as in the study of social revolution. I apply Boolean algebra to 28 Latin American national cases since 1956, to explain the revolutionary successes in Cuba and ... |
A retrospective analysis of 206 paediatric and teenage gynaecological disorders seen at the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital from January 1984 to December 1993 is presented. The age range was from birth to 19 years, with 94% aged between 12 and 19 years. Abortions constituted the most common gynaecological dis... |
As the Journal of General Physiology embarks on the new year and I look back on the last six months, I thought that it would be healthy to take stock of the values that underlie the JGP 's reviewing practices. In this effort, I found that a useful comparison can be made with a recent self-evaluationPatient-oncologist c... |
2 Background: Little is known about the association between patient-oncologist discussion of cancer treatment out-of-pocket (OOP) cost and medication adherence, a critical component of quality cancer care. |
METHODS |
We conducted a cross-sectional survey of insured adults receiving anti-cancer therapy. Patients were asked if they had discussed OOP cost with their oncologist. Medication non-adherence was defined as skipping doses to make prescriptions last longer, taking less medication than prescribed to make prescriptions last lon... |
RESULTS |
Among 300 respondents (84% response), 77% (n=230) were white and 53% (n=158) were men. 17% (n=52) reported "high" or "overwhelming" financial distress. 19% (n=56) had talked to their oncologist about cost. 27% (n=81) reported medication non-adherence. 14% (n=43) skipped medication doses to make the prescription last lo... |
CONCLUSIONS |
Patients reported non-adherence to medications and chemotherapy in order to make prescriptions last longer or due to cost. While these data cannot determine temporality or the affect of cost discussion on medication non-adherence, patient-oncologist cost communication and financial distress were associated with non-adh... |
Extracellular secretion of endoglucanase Z (EGZ) from Erwinia chrysanthemi is mediated by the so‐called Out general secretion pathway and, presumably, involves recognition of EGZ‐carried structural information by one or more of the Out proteins. Investigating the relationships between structure and secretability of EGZ... |
The group composition, physicochemical and viscosity-temperature properties of paraffinic high-resinous high-viscosity and high-viscosity oils of Udmurtia deposits with structural-mechanical properties are investigated. It was established that the destruction energy of the supramolecular structure formed during cooling... |
For most US households, labor income is the most important source of wealth and housing is the most important risky asset. A natural intuition is thus that households whose incomes covary relatively strongly with housing prices should own relatively little housing. Under plausible assumptions on preferences and distrib... |
Accumulating evidence indicates that signaling centers controlling the dorsoventral (DV) polarization of the neural tube, the roof plate and the floor plate, play crucial roles in axon guidance along the DV axis. However, the role of signaling centers regulating the rostrocaudal (RC) polarization of the neural tube in ... |
The regional transmission organizations (RTOS), independent system operators (ISOs), and utilities in the United States are coordinating interregional studies and planning their systems to facilitate wind plant deployment and to meet the ever-changing requirements of renewable energy standards. Individual states have p... |
The paper contains recommendations on treatment of supraventricular paroxysmal tachycardias (SVPT) during pregnancy. The recommendations are based on contemporary literature data and authors" own data. SVPT in postural syndrome are shown to be benign and to demand no continuous antiarrhythmic therapy, while tachycardia... |
Electroencephalographic changes in women on oral contraception has previously been reported in a few patients free of symptoms, in patients with headache, and only in a very few patients with cerebrovascular insults. The present material consist of the EEG recordings in 33 women (average age 28 years) who received oral... |
The aim of this study was to compare short-term effects of smoking cessation on blood oxidant/antioxidant status, cholesterol levels, and paraoxonase activity. Sixteen healthy, asymptomatic long-term cigarette smokers (mean age: 35 ± 9 yr) participated in the study in the smoking cessation program. After and before smo... |
Background: Beta-amyloid is increased in the brain of diabetic patients. Considering different effects of electromagnetic field on biological processes, this study was performed to investigate the concomitant effects of aqueous extract of Holothuria arenicola and low frequency electromagnetic field (EMF) on the serum i... |
The problem studied consists of the relations between the interests and militancy and the differences in expectations of rewards in an agrarian reform settlement linked to the Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST). In this settlement, many ‘leaders’ gathered the ‘socialisation of production’. The situation arising from... |
Two modeling methods are used to predict the hairiness of polyester/cotton yarn. Excellent agreement is obtained between these two approaches. A neural network model provides quantitative prediction of yarn hairiness. A multiple regression model is very easy to use, by fitting to historical data gathered from experimen... |
Spontaneous, voluntary actions are often accompanied by motor intentions, that is the experience of “being about to move”. The emergence of this experience is contentiously discussed, culminating in two opposing views of motor intention. While prospective theorists hold that an intention to move genuinely precedes the ... |
FinTech offers a new way to mobilize resources for all kinds of uses – including for funding sustainable development. Roughly 3%-13% of funding required for the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)– or around $50 billion to $125 billion -- could come from a ‘FinTech Dividend.’ Such a dividend derives from the use ... |
We read with interest the excellent analysis by Rhee et al. which supports their contention, and an emerging perception, that pediatric end-stage liver disease (PELD) scores based on chronic liver failure may be less applicable for acute liver failure. Death of a 2-year-old awaiting liver retransplantation for acute gr... |
Recruiting and retaining qualified nursing staff is of growing importance to today's hospital and nurse leaders. Findings from a survey completed by 190 RNs at a major teaching hospital revealed that nursing roles, professional autonomy, and supportive communication were differentially related to the nurses' organizati... |
It is about two decades since the marketing scholars identified the need and relevance of marketing in health care organizations. The health care industry itself has been undergoing significant changes brought on by deregulation, declining demand, intraorganizational competition and growth of HMO's and PPO's. Yet, the ... |
We believe that there is sufficient experimental evidence to support the premise that transmitter is secreted by the simultaneous activation of arrays of fusion pores at docked vesicles. This process is initiated by the action potential that activates calcium channels to increase the number of cytoplasmic calcium ions.... |
Rudas, Clogg, and Lindsay (1994, J. R Stat Soc. Ser. B, 56, 623) introduced the so-called mixture index of fit, also known as pi-star (π*), for quantifying the goodness of fit of a model. It is the lowest proportion of 'contamination' which, if removed from the population or from the sample, makes the fit of the model ... |
The holy trinity of American work law - employment discrimination, labor law, and employment law - has governed the American workplace for over four decades and is also firmly entrenched in the curricula of most law schools. But the discrete lenses provided by the conventional trinity make it difficult to bring into fo... |
Bacterial metabolism contributes to the generation of uremic toxins in patients |
with chronic kidney disease (CKD). It has been investigated the use of probiotics in the reduction |
of uremic toxins intestinal production. |
The aim of this pilot study was to evaluate the effect of probiotic supplementation on reducing |
the production of uremic toxins and the inflammatory profile of CKD patients. |
We performed a randomized, blind, placebo-controlled, crossover study on patients with |
CKD stages 3 and 4. The intervention was a probiotic formulation composed of Lactobacillus |
acidophilus strains given orally three times a day for 3 months. Changes in uremic toxins |
(p-Cresylsulfate and Indoxyl Sulfate) and serum inflammatory cytokines were the primary endpoints. |
Of the 44 patients randomized, 25 completed the study (mean age 51 ± 9.34, 64% female, |
mean eGFR 36 ± 14.26 mL/min/1.73m², mean BMI 28.5 ± 5.75 kg/m²). At 3 months, there were no |
significant changes in any of the studied biomarkers including p-cresylsulfate (p = 0.57), Indoxyl sulfate |
(p = 0.08) and interleukin-6 (p = 0.55). |
Lactobacillus acidophilus strains given as probiotic were not able to reduce serum levels |
of uremic toxins and biomarkers of inflammation in CKD patients in stage 3 and 4. |
Prevalence of GJB2 Mutations in Affected Individuals from United Arab Emirates with Autosomal Recessive Nonsyndromic Hearing Loss. |
AIM |
Mutations in the gap junction protein beta 2 (GJB2) gene are responsible for more cases of nonsyndromic recessive hearing loss than any other gene. The purpose of our study was to evaluate the prevalence of GJB2 mutations among affected individuals from United Arab Emirates (UAE). |
METHODS |
There were 50 individuals diagnosed with hereditary hearing loss and 120 healthy individuals enrolled in the study. The Sanger sequencing method was used to screen the GJB2 coding region in all affected individuals. The c.-1G>A variant was determined by the polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorp... |
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