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Giant cerebral aneurysms continue to present the surgeon with substantial technical challenges. Operative techniques for managing giant cerebral aneurysms are becoming increasingly sophisticated. We emphasize in this report a technique for direct obliteration of the giant aneurysm with a hard, calcified atheroma at its... |
We analyse the porous structure of the packed beds in the heat transfer test facility built for high temperature gas cooled reactors from several aspects, such as oscillatory porosity, average porosity, thickness effect, coordination number and contact angle. An understanding and comparison of the porous structure of t... |
Under temperate and subtropical latitudes, ewes and goats display a reproductive seasonal pattern and their sexual activity during the anestrous period can be stimulated and synchronized by the introduction of males in the group, which is called the "male effect". The response of females to the male effect in the middl... |
Abstract The changes in intracellular Ca2+ concentration ([Ca2+]i) of hepatocytes induced by certain bile acids are biphasic: an initial increase is followed by a more gradual decrease. This latter decline in [Ca2+]i may be due to an efflux of Ca2+ across the plasma membrane. This hypothesis was tested by studying the ... |
The new trigger processor, the Silicon Vertex Tracking (SVT), has dramatically improved the B physics capabilities of the upgraded CDF II Detector; for the first time in a hadron collider, the SVT has enabled the access to non-lepton-triggered B meson decays. Within the new available range of decay modes, the B{sub s}{... |
Lithium (Li) metal is a key anode material for constructing next generation high energy density batteries. However, dendritic Li deposition and unstable solid electrolyte interphase (SEI) layers still prevent practical application of Li metal anodes. In this work, it is demonstrated that an uniform Li coating can be ac... |
The purpose of this study was investigate functional alteration in the brains of patients with hemifacial spasm using positron emission tomography (PET). We studied cerebral glucose metabolism using PET with 18F‐fluorodeoxyglucose in 13 patients with right lateral hemifacial spasm and 13 with left lateral hemifacial sp... |
Action rules describe possible transitions of objects from one state to another with respect to a distinguished attribute. Previous research on action rule discovery usually required the extraction of classification rules before constructing any action rule. This paper gives anew approach for generating association-typ... |
It is unclear. When samples from different patients with early or late clamping are compared, the arterial pO2 averages 6.0 mmHg higher in the late clamping samples. In paired samples from the same patient obtained at delivery and after cord pulsations stop, there are small decreases in pH and small increases in pCO2 (... |
We report a class of pKa-directed, precise incorporation of phosphonate ligands into a zirconium-based metal-organic framework (Zr-MOF), MOF-808, via ligand exchange. By replacing of formate ligands with methylphosphonic acid (MPA), ethanephosphonic acid (EPA), and vinylphosphonic acid (VPA), whose pKa values are sligh... |
The recent controversy over the "Baby Doe" regulations issued by the Department of Health and Human Services represents the culmination of a dilemma that has faced the medical and legal professions for more than a decade. Although they have not been upheld by the courts, the regulations express the position that withho... |
tic regression, and it concerns studying the effect of covariates on the risk of disease. The chapter includes generalized estimating equations (GEE’s) with computing using PROC GENMOD in SAS and multilevel analysis of clustered binary data using generalized linear mixed-effects models with PROC LOGISTIC. As a prelude ... |
We compared HDL3- and LDL-induced signal transduction in normal and Tangier fibroblasts to elucidate whether impaired signal transduction responses to lipoproteins might contribute to disturbed cellular lipid and lipoprotein metabolism in Tangier disease, a rare autosomal disorder of cellular lipid and lipoprotein meta... |
BACKGROUND |
Although past research has globally supported the salutary impact of religion on health and health-related behaviors, it has not extensively examined the impact of the Christian Orthodox Church's way of living on people's health and health-related behavior. |
METHODS |
Semistructured personal interviews were used to investigate a stratified sample of 20- to 65-year-old individuals in the greater Athens area. Constructs were compared to single items and indices, which varied across data sets. |
RESULTS |
Multiple-regression analysis specify that persons adopting the Christian Orthodox Church's lifestyle were more likely to behave in ways that enhance their health (e.g., relaxation, life satisfaction, healthful nutrition, personal hygiene, and physical activity), after controlling for a set of socio-demographic factors ... |
CONCLUSION |
These results suggest that the Christian Orthodox Church's lifestyle constitutes a pattern of health-related behavior.Gelling Lamellar Phases of the Binary System Water-Didodecyldimethylammonium Bromide with an Organogelator. |
Does the presence of a gel network influence the properties of a lyotropic liquid crystal? Does the replacement of oil by a lyotropic liquid crystal influence the properties of an organogel? To answer these questions we study gelled lyotropic liquid crystals (LLC). In the present study we show that it is possible to ge... |
When solving polynomial systems with homotopy continuation, the fundamental numerical linear algebra computations become inaccurate when two paths are in close proximity. The current best defense against this ill-conditioning is the use of adaptive precision. While sufficiently high precision indeed overcomes any such ... |
Since it is still controversial as to whether or not atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) antagonizes norepinephrine (NE)-induced vasoconstriction, we examined the interactions of ANP and NE with respect to renal circulation. (I) Although ANP infusion at 25 ng/kg/min for 40 min caused a decrease in total peripheral resista... |
Active learning succeeds in reducing the size of labeled cor pus while maintaining the high accuracy. However, active learn ing requires several iterations of the tagger training, which w ill not be practical when the training of an iteration takes long tim e. In this paper, we propose to simplify the all-entity labeli... |
Previously published data for 49 normal‐hearing, young adult listeners in a simultaneous‐masking task with high stimulus uncertainty were reexamined with regard to possible differences in performance for male versus female listeners. The task was the detection of a 1000‐Hz, sinusoidal signal in the presence of multiton... |
ABSTRACT In the medical field, advanced techniques like e-health, smart health, and telemedicine applications are in use. These techniques transmit a digital medical image via open-source networks. The digital medical image contains confidential and sensitive information of patients. The transmitted digital medical ima... |
We have recently evaluated an ELISA for the diagnosis of human schistosomiasis using S. bovis adult worm antigens (AWA Sb), showing a sensitivity of 94% and a specificity of 97% for patients diagnosed by egg detection. Nevertheless, the comparison of this AWA Sb ELISA with direct parasitological findings as the gold st... |
180 (15%) patients from 1208 first-hospitalized schizophrenic patients had suicidal tendencies. Our findings show that the suicidal tendencies of schizophrenic patients have their own features. These conclusions can be supported by the differences between the determinants of the suicidal tendencies of schizophrenic and... |
When several large-scale quantum chemistry packages interoperate through components and some components provide similar functionality, we are faced with many challenges such as efficiently selecting the component with the best efficiency, finding compromises between efficiency and accuracy, or constructing new computat... |
This paper proposes a new dialogue model that controls utterance initiatives dynamically according to the dialogue context. It classifies utterance intentions into two categories: active and passive. Based on this model, the authors have developed a telephone operator system that can understand utterance intentions by ... |
The most important factor that affects the cost of the processing of free-form surfaces are cutting tool data. Therefore in this study, we develop a tool selection algorithm to manufacture of free form surfaces with minimum cost and time. This system can read surface information from IGES file and convert to NURBS and ... |
Abstract Background Foreign Body Ingestions (FBI), sometimes associated with severe complications, are a common reason for emergency unit visits in children. In Quebec, since March 2020, the restrictions in response to the COVID-19 pandemic have increased the time children spend at home. We hypothesized that this could... |
The aim of this study was to explore the role of ethnic origin in the treatment of acute bipolar mania. Treatment outcomes were studied in a post-hoc analysis of African–American (AA, n=41) and Caucasian (CA, n=190) adults treated with olanzapine in three studies conducted in the United States of America. Baseline demo... |
The aim of this study was to determine the percentage of participation of particular species of microorganisms, isolated from the uterus of cows with endometritis and from cows without inflammatory lesions of the uterus, in the same postpartum period. The aim of the study was also to examine how long after parturition ... |
Spatial awareness is crucial for human performance efficiency of any task that entails perception of space. Memory of spaces is an imperfect reflection of the cognitive activity (awareness states) that underlies performance in such environments. Furthermore, performance on these tasks may also be influenced by the cont... |
Report of the cases Details of 10 patients are summarised in Table I. All were negro females and presented with painful breast lumps. In 2 patients (Cases I and 10) carcinoma was suspected clinically because of skin tethering over the lump and palpable axillary lymph nodes. In the others the clinical diagnosis was fibr... |
Decreased heart rate variability (HRV) in critically ill patients indicates a poor prognosis. In heart failure patients, there is an elevated sympathetic tone, reflected by a dominance of sympathetic parameters in HRV, whereas in critically ill patients sympathetic and parasympathetic modulation of heart rate is attenu... |
ABSTRACT Energy poverty is widely recognized as a problem that affects millions of households globally. Particularly in the ‘Global North’ context, research into this phenomenon has tended to treat households as monolithic units, with little investigation into whether and how energy poverty is differentially experience... |
The tight regulation of local auxin homeostasis and signalling maxima in xylem precursor cells specifies the organizing activity of the vascular cambium and consequently promotes xylem differentiation and wood formation. However, the molecular mechanisms underlying the local auxin signalling maxima in the vascular camb... |
This paper shows a grey relation entropy method and analyzes the effectiveness of this method and the entropy relation grade. It proves that the grey relation entropy method has properties of the nonnegative, symmetry, extension extremism, and some other fine natures. The entropy relation grade still meets the four axi... |
One of the most notorious security issues in the IoT is the Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. Using a large number of agents, DDoS attack floods the host server with a huge number of requests causing interrupting and blocking the legitimate user requests. This paper proposes a detection and prevention algori... |
Background The Department of Health launched a cardiovascular disease risk assessment initiative with particular reference to reducing health inequalities in ethnic minorities. Collaboration between HEART UK, Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust and Hindu Temples resulted in vascular screening in North London. Methods Subjec... |
We consider in this paper relay assignment for cooperative systems with multiple two-way relay channels. The nodes corresponding to one two-way relay channel (henceforth referred to as pair) communicate with each other through a relay. The relays use network coding to simultaneously transmit the signals corresponding t... |
This paper reviews the concept of designing an open, horizontally scalable distributed information and computing environment, presented in the form of decentralized resource architecture (including computing nodes, storage nodes, communication channels) with decentralized computations and data management. The distribut... |
Medical Terminological Knowledge Bases contain a large number of primitive concept definitions. This is due to the large number of natural kinds that are represented, and due to the limits of expressiveness of the Description Logic used. The utility of classification is reduced by these primitive definitions, hindering... |
ABSTRACT In order to evaluate the arrhythmogenic potency of macrolide antibiotics in a quantitative manner, we analyzed the influence of clarithromycin (CAM), roxithromycin (RXM), and azithromycin (AZM) on Q-T intervals from pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic points of view and in comparison with the potency of erythr... |
The author posits that Satyagraha (‘a force that comes from truth, love and non-violence’) as a concept and practice suffered three dilutions in South Africa. The first occurred in 1961 when Nelson Mandela launched Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) without the African National Congress (ANC) or Albert Luthuli's knowledge or suppo... |
Vaginal cuff dehiscence (VCD) is a serious complication of total laparoscopic hysterectomy (TLH) or trachelectomy with high morbidity, as it can potentially lead to evisceration/bowel ischemia and sepsis. Authors present a case report of vaginal cuff dehiscence after laparoscopic trachelectomy. The patient reported pos... |
The Neal Resolution, now in Congress, would make price stability the dominant goal of monetary policy. The first of these two articles holds that policymakers’ discretion over the price level increases political conflict. Further, it argues that removing this discretion would restore the dollar to the role envisioned b... |
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