... erosions of radiography andmagneticresonanceimaging (MRI), withcomputedtomography (CT) as reference Bones with erosions (number of erosions) Radiography MRI MRI values in bones without radiographic ... and intermodality agreements of single and total erosion volume, measured on computedtomography (CT) andmagneticresonanceimaging (MRI) Reading A (mm3) Reading B (mm3) Mean of readings A and ... Computerized measurement ofmagneticresonanceimaging erosion volumes in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: a comparison with existing magneticresonanceimaging scoring systems and standard clinical...
... knee joint of 11 intensive care unit patients Increase of serum levels of alkaline phosphatase (ALP) was the earliest indication of HO MRI, magneticresonanceimaging tomic position of the innermost ... acquisition matrix of 216 × 256, and slice thickness of mm, with an intersection gap of 0.4 mm Sequences were sagittal and axial fast spin-echo short time inversion-recovery (STIR) with 3,000/80 (repetition ... motion with or without pain) indicating the development of HO, an xray and MRI of the knee joint were performed X-rays were repeated every days until the appearance of the radiologic signs of HO...
... Numbers of joints withand without signs of synovitis in finger joints, stratified by imaging modality and combinations thereof Joint Joints with signs of synovitis Joints with no signs of synovitis ... aspects of the second to fifth MCP joints and the second to fifth PIP joints of the dominant hand: the dorsal, radial and palmar aspects of the second MCP joint; the dorsal and palmar aspects of the ... patients in whom MRI of wrists and MCP joints was performed, and MRIs of six MCP and 21 PIP joints were not assessable because the patients moved between pre- and post-contrast magneticresonance sequences...
... Williams VA, Gestring ML, Cheng JD, Bankey PE: Magneticresonanceimaging in combination with helical computedtomography provides a safe and efficient method of cervical spine clearance in the obtunded ... 114 Holmes JF, Mirvis SE, Panacek EA, Hoffman JR, Mower WR, Velmahos GC: Variability in computedtomographyandmagneticresonanceimaging in patients with cervical spine injuries J Trauma 2002, ... percentage of VAP events with severe brain injury [49,51,68,69] and was associated with hypoxia [70] VAP can increase severe brain injury ICU complications, as manifested by increased ventilator and...
... Fast and quantitative high-resolution magneticresonanceimagingof the optic nerve at 3.0 tesla Invest Radiol 2006, 41:83-86 Brodsky MC, Vaphiades M: Magneticresonanceimaging in pseudotumor ... best cut-off value of ONSD for detecting raised ICP was 5.82 mm, with a sensitivity of 90%, a specificity of 92% and a negative predictive value of 92% One hundred per cent sensitivity and negative ... conducted within the frameworks of a Medical Research Council (UK) Program Grant (Acute brain injury: heterogeneity of mechanisms, therapeutic targets and outcome effects [G9439390 ID 65883]) and of...
... correlated with a greater number of lifetime depressive and manic episodes, a more severe and difficult-to-treat index episode, and a greater risk of developing an affective recurrence, most often ... reports of hyperglycemia associated with risperidone, quetiapine and ziprasidone, and more frequently with clozapine and olanzapine [26,27] http://www.general-hospital-psychiatry.com/content/3/1/7 Of ... results in a shift of blood flow to vital organs This may lead to decreased perfusion of the gastrointestinal tract and skeletal muscle with resultant erratic absorption of oral and intramuscular...
... existence of an automorphism of finite order on a Q-variety X implies the existence of algebraic linear relations between the logarithm of certain periods of X and the logarithm of special values of ... transcendence properties of the periods of X are influenced by the algebraic subvarieties of X; a subvariety of X has a cycle class in the dual of a rational homology space of X and the duals of these cycle ... existence of nontrivial algebraic linear relations between the logarithm of the periods of the eigendifferentials of X (for the action of the group) and the logarithm of special values of the Γ-function...
... the communities of organisms that inhabit cold seep sediments, focusing on soft-bodied, mid-size organisms (e.g., macrofauna and meiofauna) and on the nature of their interaction with biogeochemical ... environments often support surprisingly high densities of macrofauna Estimates of density vary with the mesh size employed but values of >10,000 ind m–2 are common and local patches of >40,000 ... fractures and sand layers or via mud diapirs Cold seeps are commonly found along fractures at the crests of anticlines, on the faces of fault and slump scarps where bedding planes outcrop and along...
... mixed with 10 lL of labeled purified C1q One hundred and fifty microliters of 6.5 pM T4 DNA were mixed with lL of labeled CLR or 2.5 lL of labeled C1, and according to case with 1–2 lL of 45 lM fucoidan ... lL of beads (3.25 lM in ultrapure water) were mixed with 50 lL of sulfo-NHS (0.5 M in ultrapure water) and 10 lL of EDC (0.2 M in ultrapure water) in 100 lL of 0.1 M Mes buffer and completed with ... lL of 6.5 pM T4 DNA were mixed with lL of labeled C1q prepared as above, and according to case with lL of 45 lM fucoidan; when the purified C1q was used, 400 lL of 6.5 pM T4 DNA were mixed with...
... ART OF DEBUGGING www.it-ebooks.info THE ART OF DEBUGGING with GDB, DDD, and Eclipse by Norman Matloff and Peter Jay Salzman San Francisco www.it-ebooks.info THE ART OF DEBUGGING WITH GDB, DDD, AND ... command with no arguments, this button runs the program with the last set of arguments that was provided DDD’s analogs of GDB’s n and s commands are the Next and Step buttons in the Command Tool ... message and the GDB prompt, without the upper subwindow for your program’s source code You could then enter TUI mode using the GDB command CTRL-X-A This command toggles you in and out of TUI mode and...
... the normal age of retirement, only 23 percent of those with COPD were still employed, as were 29 percent of those with asthma, 27 percent of those with rhinitis, 36 percent of those with selected ... history and current employment status of those with any form of respiratory disease, those with selected non-respiratory conditions, and those with no chronic conditions In the remainder of the ... while 72 and 78 percent of those with asthma and rhinitis, respectively were; at that age, 75 and 82 percent of those with selected non-respiratory chronic conditions andwith no chronic conditions,...
... vertex x of degree Thus V is a disjoint union of the closed neighborhood N [x] of x and a set A of cardinality Consider the × 12 matrix M whose rows are indexed by the elements of A and the columns ... graph G = (V, E) with |V | = 7, |E| ≥ 10, and ∆ ≤ satisfies γ(G) ≤ Proof The graph G = (V, E) must have six vertices of degree and a single vertex of degree Let v be a vertex of degree which is ... three of the two element Av ’s that contain z and at least three, that contain w So it is clear that we cannot avoid having either two Av ’s of the form {x, z} and {y, w} or, of the form {x, w} and...
... domination number of the circulant graph C(S, n) as a function of n and S, but results and techniques not appear to be useful for our purposes Note that the closed neighborhood of a vertex i of C(n, S) ... entry in the table of values of γ(n, δ) in [2] Acknowledgement We wish to thank Gordon Royle for providing Cayley tables for the 14 groups of order 16 and Cayley graphs of groups of orders up to ... degree andwith domination number at least This turns out to be related to the existence of what we call a symmetric, pseudo difference set, that is, a subset T of Zn such that ∈ T , / T = −T , and...
... 107–122, 277–292 and 365–382; columns and 8, Ro60 peptides 21– 41 and 304–324 ity of sera with the whole proteins Ro52, Ro60 and La was high in subgroups of SLE and SS mothers and did not help ... 30 weeks of gestation, the period of risk, there was clearly an elevated level of antibodies reacting with Ro52 peptides 1– 13, 277–292 and 365–382 One of our patients with high levels of IgG antibodies ... groups I and II of mothers with SS, and low levels of Ro peptide reactive antibodies were measured in asymptomatic mothers who gave birth to babies with NLE The lack of significant association of any...
... suppression of cell proliferation, increased detachment of cells, DNA strand breaks, and reduced surfactant production [58] Breaking of DNA strands has been associated with apoptosis of alveolar ... Cytochrome C levels within cytosolic and mitochondrial fractions of cells after hours of treatment Cytochrome C levels within cytosolic and mitochondrial fractions of cells after hours of treatment ... death Figure within cytosolic and mitochondrial ELISA cells after hours of treatment as measured by fractions of Bax-α levels Bax-α levels within cytosolic and mitochondrial fractions of cells after...
... existence of HR-HPV in children of the women with cervical cancer, for evaluation of vertical transmission of this virus, and to assess any associated risk factors Table Demographic profile of women with ... profile of women with cervical cancer, and their children In total, 70 women diagnosed with cervical cancer and 46 children of these women, were recruited for this study The demographic profile ... of the women and their children is given in Table and Table respectively More than two-third of the women examined (68.5%), were above 50 years of age, with the mean age of 55.21 years Most of...
... levels of only one ligand: 22 with APRIL, 16 with BLyS, and five with heterotrimers Two samples from patients with RA and one sample from a patient with SLE had detectable levels of all three ligands, ... ratio with polyethylene glycol 1500 by using standard methods Wells of the fusion plates were fed times with a 70% replacement of media, and wells were assayed 10 and 12 days after the plating of ... nonsignificant) of the samples from patients with RA (Table 1) Analyses of BLyS and APRIL homotrimer levels were performed in a subset of the samples from healthy donors and patients with SLE, and for all of...
... overview of the location of the Cantons and the ratio of case and control farms per district A total of 103 farms were infected with EP and farms with APP This resulted in an annual incidence of the ... chosen because of the high number of variables with a value of p≤0.05 and the limited number of farms in the study A backward stepwise selection procedure with a cutoff level of p=0.05 was used ... prevent the reintroduction of infection Materials and methods The study consisted of parts: an observational study of affected and control farms, and a survey of pig dealers and transport companies...
... about compliance of sepsis bundles and its impact on outcomes In this study, therefore, we determined the rate of compliance with 6-hour and 24-hour sepsis bundles and the impact of the compliance ... service within the first 24 hours following the diagnosis of severe sepsis Compliance with 6-hour sepsis bundle and hospital mortality Of the 101 patients, within the first hours after diagnosis of ... diagnosis and management of infection and sepsis, developed guidelines in 2004, termed the 'Surviving Sepsis Campaign (SSC) guidelines for management of severe sepsis and septic shock' [5] A group of...
... muscles With rapid advances in medical imaging technology in recent years, the use of 3D maxillofacial image data has become increasingly common Computedtomography (CT) andmagneticresonance ... practitioners will need to make use ofMagneticResonanceImaging (MRI), which uses a magnetic field and pulses of radio wave energy, to provide images of the masticatory muscles and facial tissues There ... Overview of Achievements 165 7.2 Future Work 169 References 171 Awards and Publications 185 vii Summary With rapid advances in medical imaging technology, the use ofmagneticresonance (MR) and computer...