OBJECTIVES The objectives of this study were to establish the prevalence of positive antibodies to endomysium (EMA) and tissue transglutaminase (tTG) in children with type 1 diabetes living in Newfoundland and Labrador (NL), and to examine clinical features associated with positive antibodies. METHODS Patients were recruited from the pediatric diabetes clinic. One hundred sixty-seven children...

EpCAM, epithelial membrane antigen (EMA)-mucin 1 (MUC1), mesothelin, and CD9 have been reported to be overexpressed at the RNA level in ovarian carcinomas. By using immunohistochemistry, we profiled the protein expression of these gene products in ovarian carcinoma tissues and compared them with benign ovarian surface epithelium (OSE) and cortical inclusion cysts (CICs). Immunoreactivity for EM...

this paper proposes the exchange market algorithm (ema) to solve the combined economic and emission dispatch (ceed) problems in thermal power plants. the ema is a new, robust and efficient algorithm to exploit the global optimum point in optimization problems. existence of two seeking operators in ema provides a high ability in exploiting global optimum point. in order to show the capabilities ...

As the aviation industry evolves toward nextgeneration fly-by-wire vehicles, hydraulic and electrohydrostatic actuators (EHA) are replaced with their electro-mechanical counterparts. By eliminating fluid leakage problems while reducing weight and enhancing vehicle control, the feasibility of electromechanical actuators (EMA) in avionic applications has been established. However, due to the inhe...

0957-4158/$ see front matter 2010 Elsevier Ltd. A doi:10.1016/j.mechatronics.2010.09.001 ⇑ Corresponding author. ⇑⇑ Corresponding author. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (J. Park), spark@jn Various electromagnetic based actuation (EMA) methods have been proposed for the actuation of microrobots. The advantage of EMA is that it can generate a wireless driving force for the microrobot, and this i...

BACKGROUND Ecological momentary assessment (EMA) is a methodology involving repeated assessments/surveys to collect data describing respondents' current or very recent experiences and related contexts in their natural environments. The use of EMA in audiology research is growing. PURPOSE This study examined the construct validity (i.e., the degree to which a measurement reflects what it is in...

Sir, Serum IgA class anti-endomysial antibodies (EMA) are markers of coeliac disease and dermatitis herpetiformis (DH) and are useful in monitoring compliance to diet. Their overall sensitivity for the diagnosis of DH is about 80% and their specificity around 96% (1). As anti-gliadin antibodies (AGA) have already been reported in pemphigus (2, 3), the presence of AGA in another patient with pem...

OBJECTIVE Type1 diabetes mellitus may be associated with celiac disease. The prevalence of celiac disease as determined by screening among adult patients with type 1 diabetes is high with rates of 1.07.8% in Europe and U.S.A. The aims of the study are to determine the prevalence of celiac disease in adults with type 1 diabetes in Tunisia. METHODS 348 consecutive adult patients with type1 diab...

Behavioral medicine research often seeks to examine relatively complex theoretical models and clinical processes. Traditional designs, based on retrospective self-report in the natural environment or laboratory-based studies, cannot assess complex and temporally dynamic psychological, behavioral, and physiological processes in the natural environment. An alternate research approach, Ecological ...

myoepitheliomas are benign tumors which account for less than 1% of all salivary gland tumors. in this article, we report the clinical, pathologic, and immunohistochemical features of plasmacytoid myoepithelioma of the hard palate in a 73-year-old man having a painless hard palate mass with progressive growth for one month who was admitted in alzahra hospital of isfahan university of medical sc...