OBJECTIVE To estimate the average postponement of death in statin trials. SETTING A systematic literature review of all statin trials that presented all-cause survival curves for treated and untreated. INTERVENTION Statin treatment compared to placebo. PRIMARY OUTCOME MEASURES The average postponement of death as represented by the area between the survival curves. RESULTS 6 studies for...

PURPOSE In patients with diabetic end stage renal disease (ESRD), glycated albumin (GA) reflects recent glycemic control more accurately than glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c). We evaluated the relationship between GA and average blood glucose (AG) level and developed an estimating equation for translating GA values into easier-to-understand AG levels. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 185 ESRD pati...

 Abstract Background: End-to-side esophagojejunostomy has almost always been associated with some degree of dysphagia. To overcome this complication we decided to perform an end-to-end anastomosis and compare it with end-to-side Roux-en-Y esophagojejunostomy. Methods: In this prospective study, between 1998 and 2005, 71 patients with a diagnosis of gastric adenocarcinoma underwent total gastrec...

We present a core-stateless quality of service architecture for achieving delay differentiation between flows. There are two key components in our approach: 1. Per-class per-hop relative average delay: the average queueing delay perceived by the packets in a delay class at a link is inversely proportional to the delay weight of the class. 2. Per-flow end-to-end delay class adaptation: the delay...

© 2012 ETRI Journal, Volume 34, Number 3, June 2012 This letter proposes a new distributed scheduling scheme combined with routing to support the quality of service of realtime applications in wireless mesh networks. Next, this letter drives average end-to-end delay of the proposed scheduling scheme that sequentially schedules the slots on a path. Finally, this letter simulates the time divisio...

Noise presents a serious challenge in optical character recognition, as well as in the downstream applications that make use of its outputs as inputs. In this paper, we describe a paradigm for measuring the impact of recognition errors on the stages of a standard text analysis pipeline: sentence boundary detection, tokenization, and part-of-speech tagging. Employing a hierarchical methodology b...