Background Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a global issue. International trade, travel, agricultural practices, and environmental contamination all make it possible for resistant microbes to cross national borders. Global collective action is needed in the form of an international agreement or other mechanism that brings states together at the negotiation table and commits them to adopt or im...

In our retrospective study we evaluated the efficacy of an improved amniotic membrane (AM) roll-in filling technique (AMR) combined with multilayer amniotic membrane cover to treat corneal perforation and included 46 cornea perforations ≤ 3 mm in diameter treated with AMR and 20% C3F8 mixed gas filling of the anterior chamber. Anterior chamber depth, aqueous leakage, bubble maintenance time, an...

BACKGROUND The standard treatment of antibody-mediated rejection (AMR) consists of antilymphocyte antibody, intravenous immunoglobulin, and plasmapheresis. This treatment is associated with a high rate of resistance and refractory AMR. Recent interest has focused on use of rituximab (RTX), a chimeric anti-CD20 monoclonal antibody. OBJECTIVE We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis o...

OBJECTIVES Phosphodiesterase (PDE) III inhibitor therapy is effective for treatment of acute decompensated heart failure (ADHF). Nevertheless, this drug is expensive than conventional inotropic agent dobutamine. We compared total medication costs of the patients treated with PDE III inhibitor amrinone therapy to that of the patients treated with conventional dobutamine therapy during initial ho...

The resolutions of interests in atmospheric simulations require prohibitively large computational resources. Adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) tries to mitigate this problem by putting high resolution in crucial areas of the domain. We investigate the performance of a tree-based AMR algorithm for the high order discontinuous Galerkin method on quadrilateral grids with non-conforming elements. We p...

A comprehensive test has been performed in order to evaluate the PESQ performance on AMR live networks. The test was necessitated by the fact that the speech quality standard has not been tested and validated on AMR live networks yet. 1. Myth and reality about the AMR codec’s expected speech quality The operability of 3G networks is complex. It has been demonstrated that some estimated performa...

This paper investigates the effects of standard speech compression techniques on the accuracy of automatic emotion recognition. Effects of Adaptive Multi-Rates (AMR), Adaptive Multi-Rate Wideband (AMR-WB) and Extended Adaptive Multi-Rate Wideband (AMR-WB+) speech codecs were compared against emotion recognition from uncompressed speech. The recognition methods included techniques based on three...

Alismatis Rhizoma Decoction (ARD) is a classical Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) formula for treatment of vertigo with its long history of successful clinical effect. Since vertigo is a symptom of hyperlipidemia, this study aimed at evaluating the hypolipidemic effect of ARD in hyperlipidemia mice induced by high fat diet (HFD) and investigated the rationality of formula combination of Alism...

Adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) is a state-of-the-art technique for the efficient numerical solution of partial differential equations (PDE) exhibiting multiple widely differing spatial scales. Recently, spacetree-based AMR has been established as a promising approach to structured AMR (see for example [1]). In the talk the integration of the two software modules PyClaw [2] and Peano [4] is pres...

In UMTS speech transmissions, the Adaptive Multi-Rate (AMR) speech codec is employed to allow for a dynamic assignment of data rates to individual users. The control of AMR modes is based on quality measurements of the transmission channel and aims at the maximization of speech quality by selecting the mode which is best suited to the current interference situation. In contrast to GSM, a reduct...