OBJECTIVE Diabetes is common among low-income elderly, dual-eligible (DE) Medicare/Medicaid patients resulting in significant morbidity, mortality, and cost. However, the quality of diabetes care delivered to these patients has not been evaluated. The aims of this study were to describe the quality of diabetes care provided to DE patients and compare it with non-DE patients. RESEARCH DESIGN A...

Abstract presented at the 5th Biennial Conference of the Australasian Academy of Cerebral Palsy & Developmental Medicine, 3-6 March 2010, Christchurch, New Zealand

seismic base isolation are devices that used to limit the human and material damage caused by an earthquake. this devices diffuse the energy induced at the time of the earthquake before being transferred to the structure.the base isolated structures when subjected to the near-fault eathquakes which contain long-period velocity pulses that may coincide with the period of base isolated structures...

This article represents the closing plenary speech from the Tenth Biennial Congress of the World Federation of Chiropractic held in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, in 2009.

BACKGROUND Over recent decades, hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) has emerged as a serious public health threat in the Asia-Pacific region because of its high rates of severe complications. Understanding the differences and similarities between mild and severe cases can be helpful in the control of HFMD. In this study, we compared the two types of HFMD cases in their temporal trends. METHOD...

Improving the prognosis of ovarian cancer patients is a major challenge to scientists and clinicians. At a recent multidisciplinary meeting in Washington DC, advances in identification of precursor lesions, progress in disease biomarkers and animal models, the promise of nanotechnology, and strategies for manipulation of the innate and adaptive immune response offered prospects for real progres...

I extend the well known and biologically well motivated Skellam model of plant population dynamics to biennial plants. The model has two attractors: either one year class competitively excludes the other, resulting in 2-cycles with only vegetative vs only flowering plants in alternating years, or the two year classes coexist at an interior equilibrium. Contrary to earlier models, these two attr...

Irregular flowering and biennial bearing are challenging in many apple ( Malus × domestica ) cultivars such as Honeycrisp. Apple is influenced by factors including crop load, fruit weight, seed number, bourse shoot length. However, it unclear how these exert their control. We investigated ‘Honeycrisp’ whether flower formation regulated locally within the spur or if under control of whole tree s...

Although the introduction of screening mammography in Japan would be expected to reduce mortality from breast cancer, the optimal screening modality in terms of cost-effectiveness remains unclear. We compared the cost-effectiveness ratio, defined as the cost required for a life-year saved, among the following three strategies: (1) annual clinical breast examination; (2) annual clinical breast e...

Melilotuis albus (alba) Desr. and M. officinalis (L.) Lam. are normally biennials flowering only in the 2nd year of growth. Under natural conditions the seeds germinate in the spring and the plants grow slowly during the first season, reaching a height of 1 to 2 feet. An enlarged storage root with a number of adventitious buds is formed in the fall and lives through the winter. In the second sp...