BACKGROUND The current EAACI/GA2LEN/EDF/WAO guideline for urticaria provide specific recommendations for the diagnostic workup and treatment of patients with chronic spontaneous urticaria (CsU). This study explored if physicians in Ecuador know these recommendations and implement them in their actual clinical practice for CsU. METHODS We investigated physicians who treat CsU patients in a cro...

BACKGROUND Urinary tract infection is common in pregnancy. Urine is sampled from by mid-stream collection (MSU). If epithelial cells are detected, contamination by vulvo-vagial skin and skin bacteria is assumed. Outside pregnancy, catheter specimen urine (CSU) is considered less susceptible to contamination. We compared MSU and CSU methods in term pregnancy to test these assumptions. METHODS ...

Polarimetric Doppler radars provide valuable information about the kinematic and microphysical structure of storms. However, in-depth analysis using radar products, such as Doppler-derived wind vectors and hydrometeor identification, has been difficult to achieve in (near) real time, mainly because of the large volumes of data generated by these radars, lack of quick access to these data, and t...

The ability to monitor radon-flux density continuously is of great value in elucidating radon-transport mechanisms. Intercomparisons of two radon-flux measurement systems were conducted in one of the two test structures operated by Colorado State University (CSU). Systems used by the U.S. Department of Energy Grand Junction Projects Office (GJPO) Radon Laboratory and the CSU investigators are s...

Architecture Framework (DODAF) L. Ertaul, J. Hao Math & Computer Science, CSU East Bay, Hayward, CA, USA Math & Computer Science, CSU East Bay, Hayward, CA, USA Abstract – The U.S Government Department of Defense employs DoDAF to develop and document its large and complex enterprise architecture. DoDAF itself has become a sizable and multifaceted subject matter. This paper is an aggregation ...

Cette étude a pour objectif d’évaluer différents scénarios de financement la couverture sanitaire universelle (CSU) au Sénégal. La méthode micro-simulation utilisée permet d’examiner l’impact des modes CSU sur les consommations ménages ainsi que recettes et dépenses publiques. Les résultats montrent l’expansion &#224...

We have compared the climatology of upper tropospheric clouds simulated with the Colorado State University (CSU) general circulation model against cloud products retrieved by the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP). Following the ISCCP cloud classification, upper tropospheric clouds are defined as clouds with cloud tops above 440 hPa. We refined our comparison by consideri...

BACKGROUND Chronic spontaneous urticaria (CSU) negatively impacts patient quality of life and productivity and is associated with considerable indirect costs to society. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to assess the cost utility of add-on omalizumab treatment compared with standard of care (SOC) in moderate or severe CSU patients with inadequate response to SOC, from the UK societal persp...