Context The Women's Health Initiative (WHI) hormone therapy (HT) trials showed protection against hip and total fractures, but a later observational report suggested loss of benefit and a rebound increased risk after cessation of HT. Objective The purpose of this study was to examine fractures after discontinuation of HT. Design and Setting Two placebo-controlled randomized trials served as...

To the Editor: The commentary by Obi and Kalantar– Zadeh and clinical paper by Chin et al. on incremental dialysis deserves further scrutiny. The first issue is which patients, if any, are “optimal” for the incremental dialysis approach? Patients who are dialyzed early, at an estimated glomerular filtration rate (EGFR) >10 ml/min per 1.73 m, may not have a better survival with incremental dialy...

the residual activity and air-borne efficacy of etofenprox (trebon 20% wp) were studied on different surfaces in hut scale trial, in kazeroun south of iran, in 1992. the bio-assay contact mortality tests with trebon against anopheles stephensi showed similar responses on pluster, cement and mud surfaces (except wooden surfaces), i.e. at 250, 400 and 500 mg/m2, trebon had residual activity for a...

The number of social assistance recipients varies significantly between welfare states. Social is a last-resort residual benefit, so high receipts may be related to policies for first-tier benefits, and their implementation, as well need factors (unemployment rate low income). Considering the strong political will diminish receipt we demonstrated way decompose reasons eligibility in cross-natio...

The vast majority of our knowledge on protein stability arises from the study of simple two-state models. However, proteins displaying equilibrium intermediates under certain conditions abound and it is unclear whether the energetics of native/intermediate equilibria is well represented in current knowledge. We consider here that the overall conformational stability of three-state proteins is m...

shrink fit process is a useful technique in order to introduce beneficial residual stress in compound pressure vessels. in this paper, the effects of geometrical tolerances on residual stresses have been studied for a compound shrink fitted pressure vessel, practically. three layers, which are designed based on an optimum nominal thickness and overlap dimensions and tolerances, have been fitted...

structural health monitoring of cracked structures is one of beloved subject of researchers recently. consider of crack behavior in the water and energy pipeline is important because of environmental problems. in this paper consider of crack parameters in the underwater pipe subjected to mechanical transient load is investigated. for this purpose, three- dimensional parametric model of cracked ...

background in surgical pathology, atypical small acinar proliferation is commonly detected in prostate biopsies. most studies on atypical small acinar proliferation have examined morphological characteristics and the utility of immunohistochemical studies.however, these resources are not available to many pathology departments. we have found that examining additional sections is a simple and in...

Objective. To review the management and outcomes of women with surgically staged 1 UPSC. Methods. We report on a case series from 2008-2010 from Hamilton Canada. We summarize the data from a literature search on surgically staged 1 UPSC. Results. There is a group women with Stage 1A UPSC with no residual disease at time of surgery who do not require adjuvant therapy. Vault recurrences appear to...

Reaction times (RTs) to randomly ordered stimuli are influenced in various ways by the sequence of preceding events. Depending on the response-stimulus interval and stimulus-response compatibility, cost-only or cost-benefit patterns can be observed. In order to localize these effects within the information-processing system, different sequential patterns were induced in overt performance. RTs a...