BACKGROUND The role of clinical gait analysis in the management of ambulant children with bilateral spastic cerebral palsy (BSCP) is controversial. We hypothesized that gait analysis would allow us to differentiate between children with BSCP who would benefit from surgical intervention and those in whom surgery was not indicated. METHODS We reviewed the outcome in 3 groups of children with BS...

Simultaneous nitrification and denitrification (SND) was investigated in the single aeration tank of a municipal wastewater treatment plant. Microelectrode measurements and batch experiments were performed to test for the presence of SND. Microelectrodes recorded the presence of O(2) concentration gradients in individual activated sludge flocs. When the O(2) concentration in the bulk liquid was...

Shallow narrow drainfields are assumed to provide better wastewater renovation than conventional drainfields and are used for protection of surface and ground water. To test this assumption, we evaluated the water quality functions of two advanced onsite wastewater treatment system (OWTS) drainfields-shallow narrow (SND) and Geomat (GEO)-and a conventional pipe and stone (P&S) drainfield over 1...

CE Superficial necrolytic dermatitis (SND) is a rare disease that is often overlooked in the differential diagnosis of dermatologic diseases. SND affects middle-aged or older dogs and is characterized by crusting and scaling of the skin. Hyperkeratosis of the footpads is often present. In dogs, the disease is most commonly associated with a hepatopathy. SND bears a striking resemblance to necro...

We investigated the survival of patients with multiple system atrophy (MSA) in a follow-up study of 59 patients admitted to Nagoya University Hospital between 1976 and 1991. They consisted of 24 patients with olivopontocerebellar atrophy (OPCA), 25 with Shy-Drager syndrome (SDS) and 10 with striatonigral degeneration (SND). The mean age at onset was 54 years, the 3-year survival rate from onset...

In this paper, we investigate the effect of temporal context for speech/non-speech detection (SND). It is shown that even a simple feature such as full-band energy, when employed with a large-enough context, shows promise for further investigation. Experimental evaluations on the test data set, with a state-of-the-art multi-layer perceptron based SND system and a simple energy threshold based S...

Objective: The objective of this study is to investigate whether age a significant risk factor for spinal nerve injury following selective neck dissection (SND) in patients with head and cancer. Methods: A retrospective cohort was conducted on who had undergone SND cancer at tertiary hospital between 2020 2022. primary outcome the incidence after SND. secondary outcomes included types severity ...

Identifying the molecular targets for the beneficial effects of active small-molecule compounds simultaneously is an important and currently unmet challenge. In this study, we firstly proposed network analysis by integrating data from network pharmacology and metabolomics to identify targets of active components in sini decoction (SND) simultaneously against heart failure. To begin with, 48 pot...

Kenney, M. J., F. Blecha, R. J. Fels, and D. A. Morgan. Altered frequency responses of sympathetic nerve discharge bursts after interleukin-1 and mild hypothermia. J Appl Physiol 93: 280–288, 2002. First published April 5, 2002; 10.1152/japplphysiol.01250.2001.—Although interleukin-1 (IL-1 ) administration produces nonuniform changes in the level of sympathetic nerve discharge (SND), the effect...

We used spectral analysis and event-triggered averaging to determine the effects of chemical inactivation of the medullary lateral tegmental field (LTF) on 1) the relationship of intratracheal pressure (ITP, an index of vagal lung inflation afferent activity) to sympathetic nerve discharge (SND) and phrenic nerve activity (PNA) and 2) central respiratory rate in paralyzed, artificially ventilat...