Lacking compliance with liquid intake restrictions is one of the major problems in patients on hemodialysis and causes an increased mortality. In 120 patients on hemodialysis with an average interdialytic weight gain (IWG) exceeding 1.5 kg on at least 2 days during the 4 weeks preceding the intervention, the effect of telemetric body weight measurement (TBWM) on IWG, ultrafiltration rate, and b...

Twenty-four different tissues from 73 children and infants, including stillbirths, were analysed for lead content. In the youngest group of 49 infants aged under 1 year, including 14 stillbirths, the mean concentrations of lead in their soft tissues were all less than 0.3 ppm and nearly all less than the concentrations found in the soft tissues of older children, or of adults. The mean concentr...

BACKGROUND Studies relating adiposity to dementia are conflicting. We explored the associations of body mass index (BMI), (calculated as weight in kilograms divided by the square of height in meters) waist circumference, and weight change to dementia, probable Alzheimer disease, and dementia associated with stroke (DAS). DESIGN Persons without dementia were followed up for 5 years; 893 person...

The major technical challenge is to design the individual weight measuring point without using load cell or pressure sensor, since it will increase cost of the equipment. So our system incorporates low cost optical based weight measurement. In addition to this, we measure the severity of loss of sensation in the foot by introducing Vibro-tactile threshold sensation technique. By using this tech...

BACKGROUND Identifying every pregnancy, regardless of home or health facility delivery, is crucial to accurately estimating maternal and neonatal mortality. Furthermore, obtaining birth weights and other anthropometric measurements in rural settings in resource limited countries is a difficult challenge. Unfortunately for the majority of infants born outside of a health care facility, pregnanci...

INTRODUCTION Body weight measurement is of critical importance when evaluating the nutritional status of patients entering a hospital. In some situations, such as the case of patients who are bedridden or in wheelchairs, these measurements cannot be obtained using standardized methods. We have designed and validated a formula for predicting body weight. OBJECTIVES To design and validate a for...

This study compared the weight and radiographic appearance of Ca(OH)(2) delivered into standardized, minimally and fully prepared canals using (a) an injection system, (b) an endodontic Flex-O file rotated counter-clockwise, (c) a lentulo spiral, and (d) a .04 rotary NiTi file rotated in reverse. Two extracted human second mandibular premolars with single canals were prepared to an MAF #25 or a...

Parameterisation of a topographic surface into a framework of fundamental points and lines is a prominent research topic in geographic information science. Metric Surface Network also called Pfaltz's graph or surface network is an example of such a framework. Surface Network is a graph topological data structure and pits, passes, peaks are its three sets of vertices while ridges (lines from pas...