OBJECTIVE We tested the hypothesis that the greater a person's laboratory stress-elicited elevation in cortisol, the greater the life stress-related risk for upper respiratory infection (URI). We also tested the prediction that the greater the laboratory stress-elicited rise in natural killer cell (NK) cytotoxicity, the smaller the life stress-related URI risk. Finally, we explored whether symp...

model, metadata formats, metadata vocabularies, the vocabulary model, application profiles and the profile model. Some of these components correspond to concepts that have been formalized by DCMI (as DCMI recommendations or other documents); other components represent abstractions based on current usage of Dublin Core metadata and on current directions in metadata interoperability. 3.1 The Abst...

Recently reinforcement learning (RL) has emerged as a promising approach for quadrupedal locomotion, which can save the manual effort in conventional approaches such designing skill-specific controllers. However, due to complex nonlinear dynamics robots and reward sparsity, it is still difficult RL learn effective gaits from scratch, especially challenging tasks walking over balance beam. To al...

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Recebido para publicação em 30/1/2008 Aceito para publicação em 21/7/2008 (003191) 1 Departamento de Engenharia de Alimentos, Universidade Regional Interaga – URI, Campus de Erechim, Av. Sete de Setembro, 1621, CEP 99700-000, Erechim, RS, Brazil, E-mail: [email protected] *A quem a correspondência deve ser enviada The role of organic solvent amount in the lipase-catalyzed biodiesel production

OBJECTIVES Most acute respiratory infections (ARIs) are viral and do not warrant antibiotic therapy. Studies to date have not examined trends in antibiotic use in ARIs in populations with disabilities, thus we assessed antibiotic prescribing for veterans with spinal cord injury and disorder (SCI and D) with outpatient ARI visits. PATIENTS AND METHODS Retrospective study using Department of Ve...

out that we do not know if physicians had asked patients to return after prescribing an antibiotic. There are certainly limitations to the use of medical billing data: (1) we could not measure the severity of a patient’s illness, (2) we were unable to capture any information about clinician recommendations for return visits, and (3) we did not collect ICD-9 codes for adverse events, which may b...

The main broadcasting organization in Italy has been RAI, whose origins date back, indirectly, to 1910 when a Royal Law gave the Italian state the monopoly for all wireless and radio communications.' In 1924, during the Fascist era, the privately owned Italian Radio Union (URI) obtained a six-year, renewable monopolistic concession on broadcasting, subject to government censorship. URI was fina...

Guidelines and Registration Procedures for new URI Schemes