BACKGROUND This study was undertaken at a major UK airport in response to management concerns about levels of sickness absence and impaired work capacity in the security department in order to investigate the possibility of achieving reductions through changes in pre-employment screening procedures. AIMS To determine the predictive capacity of a declared musculoskeletal disorder (MSD) at pre-...

BACKGROUND Synsepalum dulcificum is a plant indigenous to West Africa. The fruit is used to modify taste of foods to sweetness. OBJECTIVES This study aims to investigate the antidiabetic potentials of both methanolic and flavonoid-rich leaf extracts of S. dulcificum (MSD and FSD respectively) in type 2 diabetic Wistar albino rats. MATERIALS AND METHODS Sixty three rats were randomly distrib...

In recent years, recursive least-squares (RLS) algorithms and fast-transversal-.lters (FTF) algorithms have been introduced for multichannel active sound cancellation (ASC) systems and multichannel sound deconvolution (MSD) systems. It was reported that these algorithms can greatly improve the convergence speed of the ASC=MSD systems using adaptive FIR .lters. However, numerical instability of ...

We used video microscopy and particle tracking to study the dynamics of confined hard-sphere suspensions. Our fluids consisted of 1.1-microm-diameter silica spheres suspended at volume fractions of 0.33-0.42 in water-dimethyl sulfoxide. Suspensions were confined in a quasiparallel geometry between two glass surfaces: a millimeter-sized rough sphere and a smooth flat wall. First, as the separati...

OBJECTIVES Compare rates of medical insurance claims for musculoskeletal disorders (MSD) between workers in a construction trade and a general worker population to determine if higher physical exposures in construction lead to higher rates of claims on personal medical insurance. METHODS Health insurance claims between 2006 and 2010 from floor layers were frequency matched by age, gender, eli...

Simiao pill, a Chinese herbal formula containing four herbs, has been used in the treatment of gouty arthritis for many years. The aim of this study was to explore the effects of modified Simiao decoction (MSD) on IL-1 β and TNF α secretion in monocytic THP-1 cells with monosodium urate (MSU) crystals-induced inflammation. The MSU crystals-induced inflammation model in THP-1 cells was successfu...

In recent single-particle tracking (SPT) measurements on Listeria monocytogenes motility in cells [Kuo and McGrath (2000)], the actin-based stochastic dynamics of the bacterium movement has been analyzed statistically in terms of the mean-square displacement (MSD) of the trajectory. We present a stochastic analysis of a simplified polymerization Brownian ratchet (BR) model in which motions are ...

We propose a method for obtaining the intrinsic, long-time mean square displacement (MSD) of atoms and molecules in proteins from finite-time molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. Typical data from simulations are limited to times of 1 to 10 ns, and over this time period the calculated MSD continues to increase without a clear limiting value. The proposed method consists of fitting a model to MD...

Conflictos de interés: MP es investigador principal en estudios clínicos auspiciados por MSD, Sanofi-Aventis, AstraZeneca, Novartis Biosciences, Roche y Phenomix Corporation; miembro del Advisory Board de Sanofi-Aventis del Perú; conferenciante para Sanofi-Aventis del Perú, Novartis Biosciences y BristolMyers Squibb; ha recibido auspicio para asistir a eventos científicos por Sanofi-Aventis del...

Analyzing a complex matrix can be accomplished using multiple specific detectors, but a significant time savings is realized using GC/MSD. Using an available Retention Time Locked database with Deconvolution Reporting Software (DRS) adds a second “expert” opinion. GC/MSD with DRS provides the fastest methodology to the fewest number of false positives/negatives with the greatest confidence in t...