OBJECTIVE To assess the effect of a lifestyle intervention in lowering/normalizing blood pressure (BP) levels in hypertensive (controlled or not) obese patients. METHODS In this prospective observational study, 490 obese hypertensive patients, 389 controlled (BP < 140/90 mm Hg; CH) and 101 uncontrolled (BP ≥ 140/90 mm Hg; UH) attended a 3-month lifestyle intervention. Before and after the int...

Introduction Multiple suture techniques and various mesh repairs are used in open or laparoscopic umbilical hernia (UH) surgery. Aim To compare long-term follow-up results of UH repair in different hernia surgery groups and to identify risk factors for UH recurrence. Material and methods A retrospective analysis of 216 patients who underwent elective surgery for UH during a 10-year period w...

Comment on: Beier UH, et al. Sci Signal 2012; 5:ra45.

Magnetic reconnection is a fundamental process in collisionless space plasma environment, and waves relevant to the kinetic interactions can have significant impact on multiscale behavior of reconnection. Here, we present Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) observations during an encounter X line symmetric magnetic magnetotail. The characterized by reversals ion electron jets electromagnetic fields...

A bottom tangle is a tangle in a cube consisting of arc components whose boundary points are on a line in the bottom square of the cube. A ribbon bottom tangle is a bottom tangle whose closure is a ribbon link. For every n-component ribbon bottom tangle T , we prove that the universal invariant JT of T associated to the quantized enveloping algebra Uh(sl2) of the Lie algebra sl2 is contained in...

Title of Thesis: CFD Analysis of a Slatted UH-60 Rotor in Hover Degree Candidate: Yashwanth Ram Ganti Degree and Year: Master of Science, 2012 Thesis directed by: Associate Professor James D. Baeder Department of Aerospace Engineering The effect of leading-edge slats (LE) on the performance of a UH-60A rotor in hover was studied using the OverTURNS CFD solver. The objective of the study was to ...

Spherical tokamaks like the MAST Upgrade device are often operated in an overdense regime. As a consequence, conventional electron cyclotron resonance heating (ECRH) and current drive (ECCD) typically not possible. is planned to investigate mode coupling scheme known as O-X-B at high power, which may allow gyrotrons heat plasmas by electromagnetic waves electrostatic Bernstein (EBWs) upper hybr...

Experiments were designed to compare the antithrombotic efficacy of enoxaparin and unfractionated heparin (UH) in a model of platelet-dependent cyclic flow reductions (CFRs) in the stenosed canine circumflex coronary artery. Low-molecular-weight heparins (LMWHs) are safe and effective in the prevention and treatment of venous thromboembolism. The present experiments were designed to evaluate th...