Book of abstracts

The authors' objective was to determine the relation between periconceptional multivitamin use and the risk of small-for-gestational-age (SGA: <5th percentile; 5th-<10th percentiles) or preterm (<34 weeks; 34-<37 weeks) births. Women in the Pregnancy Exposures and Preeclampsia Prevention Study (1997-2001) reported at enrollment their regular multivitamin use in the past 6 months (n=1,823). Wome...

Introduction: There have been many operations documented for the treatment of hallux valgus and 5th metatarsal bunionette deformities in splay foot patients done separately with variable success rates. Our aim was to radiologically assess outcome following both chevrons osteotomy to the 1st and reverse chevrons osteotomy to the 5th metatarsals in symptomatic patients with splay foot. To our kno...

BACKGROUND To plan prevention programmes for the diabetic renal disease among insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM) children, projections of future trends for the disease is crucial. We projected future trends in the number of diabetic renal disease patients among IDDM children and assessed an impact of treatment dissemination in Japan. METHODS We used a Markov model to describe the clin...

∙ Suitable for digital modulation (QAM, OFDM). ∙ 3rd and 5th order distortion correction. ∙ Iterative Minimum Mean Square Error algorithm. ∙ Complex 3rd and 5th order coefficient estimation and real-time application. ∙ Selectable iterative algorithm convergence speed. ∙ Automatic timing recovery on feedback signal. ∙ Automatic phase recovery on feedback signal. ∙ Automatic forward power control...

Cellular mobile networks have enabled ubiquitous communications and largely changed the way we live and work. At the same time, the network itself has been undergoing significant changes in the process of meeting our ever increasing demands on data rate and quality of service. In this article, we show the path of the evolution in both standards and techniques, and provide our vision for the fut...

This report summarises selected presentations delivered at the Safety Pharmacology Society annual meeting. Organ safety was covered, with cardiac QT liability being discussed most extensively. Of particular interest, was the lecture on beat-to-beat variability of cardiac repolarisation in anesthetised dogs with chronic atrioventricular block. This model, characterised by an electrophisyological...