Del(22q11) is a common microdeletion syndrome with an extremely variable phenotype. Besides classical manifestations, such as velocardiofacial (Shprintzen) or DiGeorge syndromes, del(22q11) syndrome may be associated with unusual but probably causally related anomalies that expand its phenotype and complicate its recognition. We report here three children with the deletion and a chronic, erosiv...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES Early onset pauciarticular disease with uveitis is distinctly uncommon in Indian children with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA). The occurrence of anti-histone antibodies (AHA) in serum is strongly associated with presence of uveitis. There is a paucity of information from India on the levels of AHA in patients of JRA. In this study, an attempt was made to evaluate th...

OBJECTIVE Complement activation has been shown to occur in patients with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA). Since the two pathways of complement are activated by different stimuli (the alternate pathway by microbial products and IgA, and the classical pathway by immune complexes), we decided to study the relative contribution of the two pathways of complement activation in patients with JRA. ...

In this study, based on the Japanese 55-year Reanalysis (JRA-55) dataset, spatio-temporal variations of wind resources were analyzed in South China Sea. An approach to determine suitable locations offshore energy extraction was proposed and applied south southeast coasts China. The took into account various criteria, including long-term change wave condition, with different weights. results sho...

BACKGROUND The aim of this work was to study the ultrasonographic (USG) features of knee joints in relation to clinical and laboratory measures in patients with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA), and also to evaluate the accuracy of ultrasound in the diagnosis of local joint activity. METHODS This study included 20 with JRA and 20 matched and apparently healthy controls. All patients were s...

The human arm may be considered to be a redundant mechanism given a pointing task. As a result, multiple arm configurations can be used to complete a pointing task in which the tip of the index finger is brought to a preselected point in space. A kinematic model of the human arm with four degrees of freedom (DOF) and the synthesis of two criteria were developed as an analytical tool for studyin...

BACKGROUND Antinuclear antibody (ANA) tests are frequently used to screen children for chronic inflammatory diseases such as systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). However, the diagnostic utility of this test is limited because of the large number of healthy children who have low-titer positive tests. We sought to determine the clinical utility of ANA tests in screening children for rheumatic dise...

This study provides a comprehensive overview of the temperature and zonal wind biases in eight reanalysis data products, with a focus on stratospheric levels. The study identifies biases in each reanalysis from the “reanalysis mean” (defined as the mean of the MERRA, ERA-Interim, and JRA-55 reanalyses). It then examines reanalysis temperature biases with respect to HIRDLS (an independent satell...