BACKGROUND Population-based studies have revealed declining acute ischemic stroke (AIS) hospitalization rates in the United States, but no study has assessed recent temporal trends in race/ethnic-, age-, and sex-specific AIS hospitalization rates. METHODS AND RESULTS Temporal trends in hospitalization for AIS from 2000 to 2010 were assessed among adults ≥25 years using the Nationwide Inpatien...

BACKGROUND Transient ischemic attack (TIA) is a major predictor of subsequent stroke. No study has assessed nation-wide trends in hospitalization for TIA in the United States. METHODS AND RESULTS Temporal trends in hospitalization for TIA (International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision code 435.0-435.9) from 2000 to 2010 were assessed among adults aged ≥25 years using the Nationwide...

Mediterranean flour moth, Ephestia kuehniella, is a cosmopolitan pest of stored products, and its eggs are widely used to rear parasitoids and predators for biological control programmes. This experiment investigated how larval population density affected the survival rate and reproductive output of this species under four rearing densities ( larva per 2 g food per vial; or 00, 500 or 000 larva...

OBJECTIVE To conduct a comprehensive review of data on pneumococcal disease incidence in Latin America and the Caribbean and project the annual number of pneumococcal disease episodes and deaths among children < 5 years of age in the region. METHODS We carried out a systematic review (1990 to 2006) on the burden of pneumococcal disease in children < 5 years of age in the region. We summarized...

Despite major progress in treatment and prevention, stroke remains the leading cause of disability and the third leading cause of death, surpassed only by heart disease and cancer, in the United States.1 An estimated 500 000 to 600 000 first and 100 000 recurrent strokes occur each year, and '160 000 of these are fatal.2 Among stroke survivors, the burden of long-term disability is great. In th...

Active magnetic bearings enable contactless operation and can therefore be used for supporting rotors spinning at high speeds. However, the rotational speed in conventional reluctance-force-based magnetic bearing topologies is limited, which is mainly due to high rotor losses and limited force control bandwidths. In this paper, a prototype of a self-bearing motor is presented, which overcomes s...

OBJECTIVE Twenty years ago, the groundbreaking discovery that rearranged during transfection (RET) mutations underlie multiple endocrine neoplasia 2 (MEN2) and familial medullary thyroid cancer (FMTC) ushered in the era of personalized medicine. MEN2-associated signs, taking time to manifest, can be subtle. This study sought to clarify to what extent conventional estimates of 1:200 000-500 000 ...

This paper presents a generalization methodology to derive multi-scale GEODATA through an evaluation of ESRI ArcGIS software that was used as a testbed based on the principles of generalization. It focuses on integration and utilization of generalization operators in order to generalize a road network database and produce small scale maps at 1:500 000 and 1:1 000 000 from GEODATA TOPO-250K Ser...