OBJECTIVE In middle-aged and older samples, perceived subjective socioeconomic status (SSS) is a marker of social rank that is associated with elevated inflammation and cardiovascular disease risk independent of objective indicators of SES (oSES). Whether SSS is uniquely associated with elevated inflammation during young adulthood and whether these linkages differ by sex have not been studied u...

Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) is a neuropathy due to the compression of the median nerve. It is shown that gabapentin in high doses is effective in treatment of CTS patients. In this study we evaluated the efficacy of low doses of gabapentin in treatment of CTS patients. Ninety patients with CTS were randomly assigned to groups A, B and C. Gabapentin was administered to group A with dose of 100 ...

BACKGROUND Sick sinus syndrome (SSS) is a common indication for pacemaker implantation. Limited information exists on the association of sick sinus syndrome (SSS) with mortality and cardiovascular disease (CVD) in the general population. METHODS We studied 19,893 men and women age 45 and older in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) study and the Cardiovascular Health Study (CHS), t...

The goal of this comment is to first point out two loopholes in the paper by Li et al. (2006): 1) so-designed efficient maximal margin criterion (MMC) algorithm for small sample size (SSS) problem is problematic and 2) the discussion on the equivalence with the null-space-based methods in SSS problem does not hold. Then, we will present a really efficient MMC algorithm for SSS problem.

INTRODUCTION Radiography is an unreliable and insensitive tool for the assessment of structural lesions in the sacroiliac joints (SIJ). Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) detects a wider spectrum of structural lesions but has undergone minimal validation in prospective studies. The Spondyloarthritis Research Consortium of Canada (SPARCC) MRI Sacroiliac Joint (SIJ) Structural Score (SSS) assesses ...

In the rabbit uvula-nodulus, vestibular and optokinetic information is mapped onto parasagittal zones by climbing fibers. These zones are related functionally to different pairs of vertical semicircular canals, otolithic inputs and horizontal optokinetic inputs. Vestibular stimulation restricted to one of these zones modulates climbing fiber responses (CFRs). Within each of these zones, simple ...

dural arteriovenous fi stula (davf) is also known as dural arteriovenous malformation. two forms of davf have been introduced, however, here we present an exceptional case of davf with unique origin and drainage. in this study, we present a rare case of multiple davfs in a 50 year old man with right parietal intraparenchymal hemorrhage. mri showed two round right parieto-occipital masses with f...

Screen Saver Sciencetm (SSS) is a distributed computing environment in which useful computations are performed on a set of participating computers whenever their screen savers are activated [4]. In contrast to other distributed computing projects, such as SETI@Home (http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu), the compute servers of this system, that is, the part that runs within the screen saver, will...

PURPOSE Scoliosis school screening (SSS) programs have clinically benefited many children through early detection and treatment, as it is clearly stated in the Consensus Paper which has been published by the Society on Scoliosis Orthopaedic and Rehabilitation Treatment (SOSORT). It is also through these SSS programs that almost all of our current knowledge on the natural history and curve progr...

Water evaporating from the ocean sustains precipitation on land. This ocean-to-land moisture transport leaves an imprint on sea surface salinity (SSS). Thus, the question arises of whether variations in SSS can provide insight into terrestrial precipitation. This study provides evidence that springtime SSS in the subtropical North Atlantic ocean can be used as a predictor of terrestrial precipi...