OBJECTIVE To compare weight (per kg)- vs body surface area (BSA, per m(2) )-based growth hormone (GH) dosing formats in children and to derive a useful conversion formula between the two formats. PATIENTS AND DESIGN Growth hormone doses (>33,000) from 1874 children were obtained from the national Australian database (OZGROW) and used to derive conversion formulae and to confirm the accuracy o...

BACKGROUND The Psoriasis Area and Severity Index (PASI) is the score of choice to grade psoriasis severity and detect clinical changes. Due to low resolution based on the calculation of the score by fixed area classes, PASI scores <10 have little value. METHODS At 756 patient examinations, psoriasis activity was measured with both PASI and PrecisePASI. RESULTS PrecisePASI has a linear incre...

CONTEXT Thermal responses of average-sized male subjects (mass of approximately 70 kg) may not accurately reflect the rate of heat storage in larger athletes with greater muscle mass. OBJECTIVE To determine if core temperature (T(c)) is different in National Football League linemen and backs and if T(c) is related to percentage of dehydration or sweat rate. DESIGN We measured T(c) and sweat...

Homogenate extraction method was applied to fast extraction of polysaccharides from loquat leaves. Factors which affected extraction yield were investigated and optimized by response surface methodology (RSM). Results showed that optimum technological conditions were as follows: ratio of liquid to material, 25 ml: 1g; extraction time, 100 s; and pH of extracting solvent, 11. Under optimum condi...

this study was conducted to characterize the reactivity of carbonates in the surface horizons of 20 soils (entisols and aridisols) from central region of iran. the samples were analyzed for calcium carbonate equivalent (cce), active calcium carbonate equivalent (acce), non-active calcium carbonate equivalent (n.acce), carbonate mineralogy and surface area of carbonates (ssa) through n2 adsorpti...

in this study chemical method of dissolution-precipitation was applied to produce amorphous silica nanoparticles from rice straw ash (rsa), the waste material of rice cultivation. the morphology, particle size, structure and area of specific surface of synthesized amorphous silica nanoparticles were evaluated using transmission electron microscopy (tem), x-ray diffraction analysis (xrd) and bet...

A novel method of hierarchical implicit modeling is presented, in which an implicit object is modeled by using a hierarchy of implicit surfaces. The hierarchy provides both layered local refinement and global deformation. Local refinement allows the introduction of higher-level detailed surfaces. Global deformation changes the overall shape of the surface while maintaining the integrity of surf...

The aim of the study was to investigate serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH) D3) levels in patients with vitiligo vulgaris in terms of causal relation and extension of the disorder. This study is a clinical cross-sectional study carried out in order to determine 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels among 25 patients with vitiligo vulgaris and in 41 controls. Fitzpatrick skin phototypes, history of autoimmun...

Applications that require a robot to cover an area can be described as complete coverage navigation tasks. Examples of this type of navigation are vacuuming, surface coating, and systematic foraging. Performance measures are often neglected in this area of research. This paper presents two metrics for measuring performance of robot coverage tasks and applied them to a real robot coverage experi...