If adopted by EPA, proposed new regulations on stack emissions will force many utilities with coalfired boilers to reduce their NOx emissions to levels which are substantially lower then can be achieved with current low NOx burner technology. To meet these requirements, some utilities are anticipating the need to use selective catalytic reduction (SCR) for NOx control. New SCR catalysts under d...

In this paper, we describe spoken document retrieval systems in Ryukoku University, which were participated in NTCIR-10 IR for Spoken Documents (“SpokenDoc-2”) task. In NTCIR-10 “SpokenDoc-2” task, there are two subtasks: “spoken term detection (STD) subtask” and “ad-hoc spoken content retrieval (SCR) subtask”. We participated in the SCR subtask as team RYSDT. In this paper, our SCR systems are...

This paper describes spoken term detection (STD) and spoken contents retrieval (SCR) techniques and their evaluations at the NTCIR-10 SpokenDoc-2 task. First of all, we describes our STD technique using a phoneme transition network (PTN) derived from multiple speech recognizers’ outputs and its evaluations at the STD and the iSTD (inexistent STD) tasks. Next, we introduce our SCR technique usin...

BACKGROUND To evaluate the incidence and risk factors of contrast-induced nephropathy (CIN) in patients undergoing fluorescein angiography (FA). METHODS One hundred sixty patients who underwent FA as a part of ophthalmic examination and had serum creatinine (SCr) results within 24 h before FA and within 72 h after FA between 2005 and 2013 at a tertiary medical center were included. According ...

PURPOSE A case of nephrotoxicity possibly caused by tobramycin inhalation solution is presented. SUMMARY A 62-year-old Caucasian woman was admitted for treatment of decreased urine output and sepsis secondary to Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Her past medical history was significant for multiple diseases, including chronic renal insufficiency (baseline serum creatinine concentration [SCr] 2 mg/dL). ...

Factor H (FH) regulates the activation of C3b in the alternative complement pathway, both in serum and at host cell surfaces. It is composed of 20 short complement regulator (SCR) domains. The Y402H polymorphism in FH is a risk factor for age-related macular degeneration. C-reactive protein (CRP) is an acute phase protein that binds Ca(2+). We established the FH-CRP interaction using improved a...

Renal impairment is associated with an increased risk of carotid atherosclerosis and stroke, determinants of cognitive dysfunction and dementia. The purpose of this study was to determine whether moderate renal impairment is associated with incident dementia among community-dwelling older adults. Participants in the Cardiovascular Health Cognition Study without prevalent dementia (n = 3349) wer...

OBJECTIVE To document the views of patients and the public towards the summary care record (SCR, a centrally stored medical record drawn from the general practice record) and HealthSpace (a personal health organiser accessible through the internet from which people can view their SCR), with a particular focus on those with low health literacy, potentially stigmatising conditions, or difficultie...

BACKGROUND Non-equivalence in serum creatinine (SCr) measurements across Dutch laboratories and the consequences hereof on chronic kidney disease (CKD) staging were examined. METHODS National data from the Dutch annual external quality organization of 2009 were used. 144 participating laboratories examined 11 pairs of commutable, value-assigned SCr specimens in the range 52-262 μmol/L, using ...

BACKGROUND Preoperative renal failure is a risk factor for adverse events in cardiac surgery. Serum creatinine (SCr) is the most used test for renal failure. However, patients can have significantly decreased glomerular filtration rates with normal SCr levels. More accurate approximation of renal function can be obtained using the Cockroft-Gault equation to calculate an estimated creatinine cle...