STUDY OBJECTIVE Acute interstitial pneumonitis is the main pulmonary side effect during methotrexate (MTX) treatment for rheumatoid arthritis. The aim of the study was to determine the following: (1) the incidence of MTX-induced pneumonitis during low-dose long-term MTX treatment for chronic arthritis; (2) whether periodic pulmonary function tests were useful for detecting MTX pneumonitis befor...

The Data Center Observatory (DCO) was conceived to guide and enable experimental research into data center automation and effi ciency. The DCO will be a fully-instrumented operational data center at Carnegie Mellon, simultaneously used as a utility and as a research vehicle. Its computation and storage resources will be a utility for CMU research activities, from data mining to CAD/architecture...

Coded modulation with APSK is proposed for OFDM-based VLC systems. Simulation results show that the proposed scheme achieves better performance than conventional QAM counterpart in both DCO-OFDM and ACO-OFDM systems, while similar complexity is maintained. OCIS codes: (060.2605) Free-space optical communication; (060.4080) Modulation.

UNLABELLED Student attendance in American public schools is a critical factor in securing limited operational funding. Student and teacher attendance influence academic performance. Limited data exist on indoor air and environmental quality (IEQ) in schools, and how IEQ affects attendance, health, or performance. This study explored the association of student absence with measures of indoor min...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To assess whether posture-related changes of diffusing capacity could be considered as an early sensitive marker of pulmonary abnormalities in patients with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM) and whether the postural variations of pulmonary capillary blood volume (Vc) could reflect the lung capillary damage that characterizes the diabetic microangiopathy. DESIGN Carbon...

American Power Corporation Cisco Systems, Inc. EMC Corporation Hewlett-Packard Labs Hitachi, Ltd. IBM Corporation Intel Corporation Microsoft Corporation Network Appliance Oracle Corporation Panasas, Inc. Seagate Technology Symantec Corporation Perspective on Home Storage ............. 1 Director’s Letter .............................2 Year in Review ...............................4 Recent Publ...

In the phase 3 CASPIAN trial, 1L D+EP significantly improved OS vs EP and benefit was sustained after >3 years median follow-up (HR 0.71; 95% CI 0.60‒0.86; nominal p=0.0003). Here we assess clinical molecular characteristics of pts who experienced long-term survival in CASPIAN. 805 with ES-SCLC were randomised 1:1:1 to D+EP, D+T+EP or EP. post-hoc analyses, assessed survivors (LTS; n=94), defin...