... elevated titers of anti-52 kDa Ro(SS -A) and anti-52 kDa La(SS-B) antibodies, had marked hyper-gammaglobulinemia, and was rheumatoid factor (RF) pos-itive. The patient did not have extraglandular ... there was evidence of clonalexpansion of V A2 7–Jκ5 and V A1 9–Jκ2 rearrangementsin the patient’s parotid gland only, as well as of Vλ1C–Jλ3rearrangements in both the peripheral blood and parotidgland ... autoantibodies (anti-Ro and anti-La), hypergamma-globulinemia and enlargement of the parotid glands, and could therefore be considered to have active disease. Thedata provide evidence that B...
... graft and application of a non-reabsorbable membrane Adele Scattarella1, Andrea Ballini1, Felice Roberto Grassi1, Andrea Carbonara1, Francesco Ciccolella1, Angela Dituri1, Gianna ... graft. Background: Acute and chronic oroantral communications (OAC, OAF) can occur as a result of inadequate treatment. In fact surgical procedures into the maxillary posterior area can lead ... Bichat's buccal fat pad to close oroantral communications in irradiated maxilla. J Oral Maxillofac Surg. 2010 Jan;68(1):229-30. 9. Hernando J, Gallego L, Junquera L, Villarreal P. Oroantral...
... Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, King Abdulaziz Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (Abdullah A. Alshimemeri, Yaseen M. Arabi, Hamdan Al-Jahdali, Ashwaq Olayan, and Othman Al Harbi) and ... unitAbdullah A. Alshimemeri, Yaseen M. Arabi, Hamdan Al-Jahdali, Ashwaq Olayan, Othman Al Harbi, Ziad MemishCrit Care & Shock (2011) 14:1-6AbstractObjective: To examine the presentation and ... numerically, with percentages of groups where applicable. Variations within categories are shown as means with ranges where appropriate. Comparative data between characteristics are displayed, and...
... lack of N-terminal acetylation. The sequence for the N-terminal5Â forward primer was 5Â-GGAATTCCATATGGCGAGCATGGACGCCATCAAGAAGAAGATGC-3Â. As smTmuses the same C-terminal exon 9d as Tm 5a and ... thermal transition (Tm), and calorimetric enthalpy(DHcal) was calculated as the area under the excess heatcapacity function.The DSC data, with instrumental baseline deducted, wereanalysed ... samples.Preparation of actinRabbit actin was prepared by the method of Spudich and Watt [51]. Its molar concentration was determined by itsabsorbance at 290 nm using an E1% of 6.3 cm)1and...
... co-morbidities and about their medical and specific arrhyth-mia history. A 12-lead electrocardiogram and an echocar-diography were performed. The study was carried out as a part of the quality assurance ... satisfactory reliability and validity.BackgroundTo date there are few disease-specific instruments thatassess symptoms of atrial fibrillation (AF), and theyappear to be largely unvalidated and/ or ... state, depression, worry and anxiety seem to playimportant roles and may affect the relapse rate of AF aswell as the symptomatology and the quality of life[26,27]. 'Anxiety due to AF'...
... interpretation of data and in selection of patients, ZS design the study and he was the soul of thisarticle. All authors read and approved the final manu-script.Health and Quality of Life Outcomes ... hyperplasia: an ambig-uous indicator f or an ambiguous dis ease. Br J Urol 1996,77:181–185.16. Cam K, Senel F and Akman Y, et al: The efficacy of anabbreviated model of the international prostate ... Deverka PA and Chute CG, et al: Validation ofa newquality of life questionnaire for benign prostatic hyperplasia.JClinEpidemiol1992, 45:1431–1445.11. Bertacc ini A, Martinelli Aand Ceccarelli...
... sedimentationrate, anda general health assessment on a visual analogscale (VAS) [23]. Disease activity in patients with AS and axial PsA was measured with the BASDAI [24]. The BAS-DAI consists of ... mortality,participation in paid and unpaid work, and healthcarecosts [7-9]. PsA is an inflammatory peripheral and/ oraxial arthritis associated with psoriasis, usually seronega-tive for rheumatoid factor ... patients with RA and peripheral PsA and theBath Ankylosing Spondylitis Disease Activity index (BAS-DAI) [24] was used for patients with AS and axial PsA.DAS has been developed to provide a...
... in NASS and VAS scores at 6months and 2 years postoperation compared to preopera-tion. Thus back pain and neurogenic symptoms are partic-ularly disabling and are associated with significantmorbidity ... and Pain Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) and returnto work.Results: The mean age was 35.6 years, the mean operative time was 55.8 minutes and the meanlength of follow-up was 3.4 years. The mean ... introduced at the safe triangle of Kambin,[2] the risk of nerve damage was low. We did not have anyneurological deficit in all the patients done under generalanesthesia. The advantage of general anesthesia...
... state, depression, worry and anxiety seem to playimportant roles and may affect the relapse rate of AF aswell as the symptomatology and the quality of life[26,27]. 'Anxiety due to AF' ... domains and to the relevantquestions of the SCL. The Rasch analyses showed that the items are unidimensional and that theyare clearly separated and cover an adequate range. Test-retest reliability ... satisfactory reliability and validity.BackgroundTo date there are few disease-specific instruments thatassess symptoms of atrial fibrillation (AF), and theyappear to be largely unvalidated and/ or...
... O1n2,Şen and Bayramov Journal of Inequalities and Applications 2011, 2011:113http://www.journalofinequalitiesandapplications.com/content/2011/1/113Page 7 of 9 RESEARCH Open AccessOn calculation of ... sufficiently large. From (8) and (14), we getŞen and Bayramov Journal of Inequalities and Applications 2011, 2011:113http://www.journalofinequalitiesandapplications.com/content/2011/1/113Page 5 of 9 ... this article as: Şen and Bayramov: On calculation of eigenvalues and eigenfunctions ofa Sturm-Liouvilletype problem with retarded argument which contains a spectral parameter in the boundary...
... 395–401, 2003.7 T. K. Kar and U. K. Pahari, “Modelling and analysis ofa prey-predator system with stage-structure and harvesting,” Nonlinear Analysis. Real World Applications, vol. 8, no. 2, ... Dimitrov and H. V. Kojouharov, “Complete mathematical analysis of predator-prey models with linear prey growth and Beddington-DeAngelis functional response,” Applied Mathematics and Computation, ... 505–512,2007.6 T W. Hwang, “Global analysis of the predator-prey system with Beddington-DeAngelis functionalresponse,” Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, vol. 281, no. 1,...
... compared to that of CMA and MMA. Because,instead of using both real and imaginary parts as in CMA and MMA, only one dimension, the real or imaginary part,is considered in SCMA, which makes ... kurtosis of the realparts of the symbols. It is always negative in the case of PSK and QAM signals. A. Ikhlef and D. Le Guennec 11have almost the same behavior. So, in the case of QAM sig-nals, ... certain types of signal constellations, such as non-square and very dense constellations [18]. Please notice thatboth CMA and MMA are two-dimensional (i.e., employ bothreal and imaginary part...
... nonlinear variational inequali-ties.As generalizations of the above systems of variational inequalities, Agarwal et al. [33]introduced a system of generalized nonlinear mixed quasivariational ... nonlinear v ariational-like inclusions and gave an iterative algorithm for findingits approximate solution. Fang and Huang [35] and Fang et al. [36] introduced and stud-ied a new system of variational ... introduce and study a new system of variational inclusions with (H,η)-accretive op-erators, which contains variational inequalities, variational inclusions, systems of varia-tional inequalities, and...
... a continuous time study on manual harvesting systems witha chainsaw model Stihl in a Caspian hardwood forest.(2) Estimate the production rates and costs of chain-saw felling.MATERIAL AND ... higher initial costs of mechanized harvesting machines, larger diameters and crowns of hardwoods, and the relatively steep terrain in Caspian forests, manual felling witha chainsaw is still the ... RepublicABSTRACT: A field production study was conducted for a manual harvesting system using a chainsaw in a Caspian hardwood forest site. A selective cut was performed on a 42-hectare tract with an...
... tree, and resulting values werecompared between modalities. Means are pre-sented with their standard error. Analysis of variance (ANOVA) was achieved using SASsoftware (SAS ... Data wereobtained by drawing the areas on a transpar-ent paper and by measuring them with a planimetre (ΔT area metre, ΔT Devices, Cam-bridge, UK). ... 1 year after inoculation at a density of 400 m-2.Despite this lack of mortality, impor-tant damage (i.e. occurrence of large areas of blue-stained, resin-soaked and desic-cated...