OBJECTIVES To investigate the associations between smoking status, smoking cessation and hospitalisations for cardiovascular events (CVE) and respiratory tract infections (RTI) in an inception cohort of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). METHODS The study was set within UK primary care electronic health records (the Clinical Practice Research Datalink) linked to hospital inpatient data ...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence of human coronavirus (HCoV)-NL63, human metapneumovirus (hMPV), human bocavirus (Boca), human polyomavirus KI (KIV) and human polyomavirus WU (WUV) in respiratory tract infections (RTI) in Kuwait. MATERIALS AND METHODS Respiratory samples from 735 hospitalized patients with RTI from September 2010 to April 2013 were evaluated f...

This study aimed to describe the severity of injury (RTI), length of stay, costs, financial burden, and sources of payment for RTI patients in the Kunming area, Yunnan Province, China. Information was collected from interviewing 420 patients admitted with RTI during January to May 2005 and from medical records reviewed of all the patients admitted from January to 30 May 2005. The costs and fina...

The effects of compressibility on Rayleigh-Taylor instability (RTI) are investigated by inspecting the interplay between thermodynamic and hydrodynamic non-equilibrium phenomena (TNE, HNE, respectively) via a discrete Boltzmann model (DBM). Two effective approaches are presented, one tracking the evolution of the local TNE effects and the other focussing on the evolution of the mean temperature...

The Generic Runtime Infrastructure for Distributed Simulation (GRIDS) has been developed to investigate modularity issues in distributed simulation. It could be argued that although the HLA RTI is a widespread solution to distributed simulation, it cannot include all possible services. This paper investigates an approach to extending the distributed simulation services available in the HLA RTI....

Data communication is a key technology for future road traffic concepts. Road Transport Informatics (RTI) services have specific requirements which are not met sufficiently by existing communication systems like RDS/TMC or GSM. Therefore, CEPT has assigned a one GHz band between 63 and 64 GHz for the development of a dedicated short-range communication system. Real-time constraints and specific...

This article focuses on explanation-based knowledge about system limitations (SLs) under conditional driving automation (society of automotive engineers level 3) and aims to reveal how this influences driver intervention. By illustrating the relationships between environment, system, mental model, in dynamic decision-making processing for responding an issued request intervene (RtI), occurrence...

Abstract We present reflectance transformation imaging (RTI) as a documentation tool for visualizing and recording the treatment of coins. RTI—a computational photograph technique that calculates light positions—allows interactive relighting vision. Virtual enhances surface details examining morphological difference. By applying Dome RTI method, stages conservation were recorded to enhance over...

P. Mohr1, M. Harries2, F. Grange3, R. Ehness4, L. Benjamin5, O. Siakpere6, L. McLeod7, S. Wolowacz8, J.A. Kaye9, I. Kontoudis10 Clinic of Dermatology, Dermatologic Center Buxtehude, Buxtehude, GERMANY Department of Medical Oncology, Guys and St Thomas’s Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Guys Hospital, London, UK Dermatology, Reims University Hospital, Reims, FRANCE Medical Hematology/oncology, Gl...

Multi baselinc rcpeat track interferometry (RTI) can potentially be uscd to measure both velocities and the micro topogra hy of glaciers. The Danish Center for Remote (DPC) has established a test cite for studies of glacier dynamics on the Storstreimmen glacier i n North East Greenland. DCRS has acquired RTI data over the glacier in 1994 and 1995 and ERS-112 tandem mode data are also available....