BACKGROUND Fluticasone furoate (FF) is a novel long-acting inhaled corticosteroid (ICS). This double-blind, placebo-controlled randomized study evaluated the efficacy and safety of FF 200 mcg or 400 mcg once daily, either in the morning or in the evening, and FF 200 mcg twice daily (morning and evening), for 8 weeks in patients with persistent asthma. METHODS Asthma patients maintained on ICS...

BACKGROUND Vitamin D receptor (VDR) FokI polymorphism has been reported to influence the risk of spinal diseases. However, several studies suggest inconsistent results. Therefore, we performed this analysis to reveal the accurate relationship between VDR FokI polymorphism and spinal diseases. MATERIALS AND METHODS 8 articles accord with the strict inclusion and exclusion criteria. 1116 cases ...

In the title hydrate, C(17)H(14)ClN(3)O·H(2)O, the dihedral angle between the quinoline fused-ring system and the benzene ring is 13.4 (2)° and the conformation about the C=N bond is E. In the crystal, N(h)-H⋯O(w) and O(w)-H⋯N(q) (h = hydro-zone, w = water and q = quinoline) hydrogen bonds generate a two-dimenstional network in the ac plane. A weak C-H⋯O inter-action helps to consolidate the pa...

Suppose F is a field with a nontrivial valuation v and valuation ring Ov, E is a finite field extension and w is a quasi-valuation on E extending v. We study the topology induced by w. We prove that the quasi-valuation ring determines the topology, independent of the choice of its quasi-valuation. Moreover, we prove the weak approximation theorem for quasi-valuations.

There is a large repeated games literature illustrating how future interactions provide incentives for cooperation. Much of this literature assumes public monitoring: players always observe precisely the same thing. Even slight deviations from public monitoring to private monitoring that incorporate differences in players’ observations dramatically complicate coordination. Equilibria with priva...

Background: In the treatment of prostate cancer, radiotherapy is the potential to increase second primary cancers such as bladder and rectal cancers. The reasons for this potential are more monitor units (MUs), therefore a larger total body dose because of leakage radiation, a bigger volume of normal tissue is exposed to lower radiation doses. This study was designed to compare the integral dos...

Let R be a left pure semisimple ring such that there are no nonzero homomorphisms from preinjective modules to non-preinjective indecomposable modules in R-mod, and let W be the left key R-module; i.e., W is the direct sum of all non-isomorphic non-preinjective indecomposable direct summands of products of preinjective left R-modules. We show that if the module W is endofinite, then R is a ring...

Vitamin D plays an important role in cell growth and differentiation and is proposed to protect against cancer initiation and/or progression. The vitamin D receptor (VDR) has a thymine/cytosine (T/C) polymorphism located in the first of two potential start (ATG) codons that can be detected by a RFLP using the endonuclease FokI. The C variant, which lacks the first ATG, results in a shorter VDR ...

We consider computation trees which admit as gate functions along with the usual arithmetic operations also algebraic or transcendental functions like exp; log; sin; square root (deened in the relevant domains) or much more general, Pfaaan functions. A new method for proving lower bounds on the depth of these trees is developed which allows to prove a lower bound (p logN) for testing membership...