BACKGROUND Metabolic syndrome (MS) is thought to be a risk marker for cardiovascular diseases in the general population and in patients with chronic kidney disease. This study investigated whether the presence of MS also modifies cardiovascular (CV) outcomes among non-diabetic patients undergoing long-term peritoneal dialysis (PD). METHODS We enrolled 280 patients from a medical centre in Nor...

Suitability analysis is performed to identify sites (usually grid cells or pixels) suitable for a specific purpose so that management decisions can be made in a site-specific manner. However, sites identified as suitable are rarely equally suitable in the real world. Measurement of the degree of site suitability (DoSS) is therefore crucial to be able to manage sites in a truly site-specific man...

Compressive sensing (CS) is a data acquisition technique that measures sparse or compressible signals at a sampling rate lower than their Nyquist rate. Results show that sparse signals can be reconstructed using greedy algorithms, often requiring prior knowledge such as the signal sparsity or the noise level. As a substitute to prior knowledge, cross validation (CV), a statistical method that e...

I evaluated a commercially available polyacrylamide column (Clinetics Corp.) for use in assaying for carcinoembryonic antigen. The procedure eliminates the need for dialysis and 50 samples, assayed in duplicate, may be completed in 5 h. In general, results by this technique are 1.0 microgram/L (range 0.5-2.0) lower than by the conventional dialysis method (r = 0.9876). Sensitivity approximates ...

J Jpn Soc Nutr Food Sci 52:157-162 (1999) The influence of protein, methionine, a crystalline amino acid mixture, oil or cellulose in the diet and the method used for diet sterilization on the fresh weight or total nitrogen (N) content of the cecum was examined in germ-free (GF) and conventional (CV) mice. These results showed that the fresh weight of the cecum in GF mice was much higher than t...

PURPOSE To evaluate the intertester reliability of two methods for measuring lower-limb strength in children with cerebral palsy (CP). METHOD Twenty-five subjects with CP (7-17 years of age) participated in this study. Lower-limb muscle strength was measured on 2 occasions using a Hand-held Dynamometer (HHD; break-method and make-method) and a 30-sec Repetition Maximum (RM) during three funct...

Monitoring the coefficient of variation (CV) is a successful approach to Statistical Process Control when the process mean and standard deviation are not constant. In recent years the CV has been investigated by many researchers as the monitored statistic for several control charts. Viewed under this perspective, this paper presents a new efficient method to monitor the CV by means of Run Rules...

Obtaining the peak current ip from raw CV data The raw CV data obtained during the experiments featured two characteristics, which could potentially complicate the data analysis. First, because of the relatively high scan rate (10 V s) used for these experiments, the background current was quite important and could potentially hinder the determination of the concentration profiles from the volt...