Asia has the largest population of any continent and the highest incidence of gastric cancer in the world, making it very important in the context of Helicobacter pylori infection. According to current guidelines, standard triple therapy containing a proton pump inhibitor (PPI) and two antibiotics; amoxicillin (AMX) and clarithromycin (CAM) or metronidazole (MNZ), is still the preferred first-l...

OBJECTIVE To carry out surveillance of central line associated bloodstream infections in a Pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) and determine associated risk factors. METHODS This prospective study was conducted over 1.5 years in the PICU. CDC definitions for these infections were followed and associated risk factors were identified. RESULTS Of 265 enrolled children with central line, 13 de...

.................................................................................................................................. 2 1. Corporate Sustainability – an Introduction to Triple Bottom Line reporting........... 3 2. Measuring all indirect impacts ....................................................................................... 4 3. Unravelling the supply chain ....................

We show that several terminating summation and transformation formulas for basic hypergeometric series can be proved in a straigntforward way. Along the same line, new finite forms of Jacobi’s triple product identity and Watson’s quintuple product identity are also proved.

Abstract Background A triple-tapered polished femoral stem was implanted with line-to-line cementing technique. The purpose of this study to determine the survivorship, loosening rate, subsidence, radiologic changes and clinical outcomes in minimum 10-year follow-up. Methods This a retrospective done three institutes. Finally, 118 hips 97 patients could be followed-up at mean follow-up period 1...

Generalizing [11] we express universal triple Massey products between line bundles on elliptic curves in terms of Hecke's indefinite theta series. We show that all Hecke's indefinite theta series arise in this way.

Multi-criteria analysis (including Triple Bottom Line approaches) is fundamentally flawed in principle, and is open to abuse by special-interest groups. Its increased use poses a significant risk to the quality of policy formulation by Australian

In a Phase III trial for HER2-positive breast cancer (the CLEOPATRA study), the triple-drug combination arm of pertuzumab plus trastuzumab plus docetaxel showed significantly longer progression-free survival and overall survival than did the trastuzumab plus docetaxel arm. In this study, we investigated the mechanism of action of the triple-drug combination therapy in vivo. For this purpose, we...