Kidney is an important organ to clear neurotoxic substance in circulation. However, it is still unknown about the effect of renal function impairment (RFI) on the mortality of cirrhotic patients with hepatic encephalopathy (HE). We used the Taiwan National Health Insurance Database to identify 4932 cirrhotic patients with HE, hospitalized between January 1, 2007 and December 31, 2007. The enrol...

The (i) reciprocity relations for the relative Fisher information (RFI, hereafter) and (ii) a generalized RFI-Euler theorem, are self-consistently derived from the Hellmann-Feynman theorem. These new reciprocity relations generalize the RFIEuler theorem and constitute the basis for building up a mathematical Legendre transform structure (LTS, hereafter), akin to that of thermodynamics, that und...

OBJECTIVE The feed intake (FI) and feed efficiency are economically important traits in ducks. To obtain insight into this economically important trait, we designed an experiment based on the residual feed intake (RFI) and feed conversion ratio (FCR) of a random population Pekin duck. METHODS Two thousand and twenty pedigreed random population Pekin ducks were established from 90 males mated ...

Radio frequency interference (RFI) has strong influence on wide band airborne radar systems, especially operaing at L-band (1-2 GHz) or lower frequencies. EcoSAR is a P-band digital beamforming radar system, and RFI has to be removed from raw echoes to obtain science quality data. In this paper we describe the current methodology used to tackle RFI with EcoSAR, and provide an example on its per...

A wideband spectrometer of 500 MHz instantaneous bandwidth is described that includes an implementation of the Spectral Kurtosis (SK) algorithm for automatic radio frequency interference (RFI) detection. An SK spectrometer accumulates both power and power-squared, which are then used to develop the SK estimator. The SK spectrometer of the Korean Solar Radio Burst Locator (KSRBL) has a 2 GHz ins...

A requirement of the next generation radio telescopes for astronomy is its ability to cope with the forever increasing problem of Radio Frequency Interference (RFI). Unlike conventional fixed parabolic receivers used currently in astronomy, the application of phased-array beamforming techniques opens the possibility to spatially null RFI in the RF domain prior to signal digitisation. This paper...

Radio frequency interference (RFI) has plagued radio astronomy from its inception. The Workshop on the Mitigation of Radio Frequency Interference in Radio Astronomy (RFI2004) was held in Penticton, BC, Canada in July 2004 in order to consider the prognosis for the RFI problem, in particular as it impacts the planned Square Kilometre Array (SKA). This paper concludes that RFI is unlikely to be a...

Feed intake and feed efficiency are economically important traits in beef cattle because feed is the greatest variable cost in production. Feed efficiency can be measured as feed conversion ratio (FCR, intake per unit gain) or residual feed intake (RFI, measured as DMI corrected for BW and growth rate, and sometimes a measure of body composition, usually carcass fatness, RFI(bf)). The goal of t...

زمینه و هدف: بررسی دلایل ایجادکنندة ناباروری در مردان چگونگی جلوگیری از ایجاد جامعه، کمک ارزنده به بیمارانی است که رنج می‌برند. علل گوناگونی جمله سن، داروها، قرار گرفتن معرض سموم محیطی، مشکلات ژنتیکی بیماری‌های عمومی رخ می‌دهد. آسپرین (استیل سالیسیلک اسید: ASA) یکی داروهای ضدالتهابی غیراستروئیدی (NASID) جزء پرمصرف‌ترین جهان سبب کاهش توان باروری می‌شود. علاوه‌بر این فعالیت بدنی می‌تواند بر جنس ن...