BACKGROUND With increasing age, estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) decline is a frequent manifestation and is strongly associated with other preclinical target organ damage (TOD). In literature, many equations exist in assessing patients' eGFR. However, these equations were mainly derived and validated in the population from Western countries, which equation should be used for risk str...

1 The HUs are symptomatic clinical situations in which there is significant BP elevation (arbitrarily defined as DBP ≥ 120 mm Hg) without acute and progressive TOD. The HEs are symptomatic clinical situations in which there is significant BP elevation (arbitrarily defined as DBP ≥ 120 mm Hg) with acute and progressive TOD. 2,3 Patients complaining from headache, atypical chest pain, dyspnea, ac...

TO D s fo r S o u t h e r n C a l i fo r n i a : C h a l le n g e s a n d P ro s p e c t s Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, Ph.D. When the idea of transit oriented development (TOD) entered the lexicon of planning in the late 1980s, it was enthusiastically endorsed by some planners and academics who viewed TODs as a way of mitigating the ubiquity of sprawl and as a strategy for smart growth. But ac...

In this paper, we investigate the inhomogeneous higher-order nonlinear Schrödinger (NLS) equation governing the femtosecond optical pulse propagation in inhomogeneous fibers using gauge transformation and generate bright soliton solutions from the associated linear eigenvalue problem. We observe that the amplitude of the bright solitons depends on the group velocity dispersion (GVD) and the sel...

We present a quantitative comparison of continuous-wave- (CW) and pulsed-pump four-wave mixing (FWM) in commercially available highly nonlinear fibers (HNLFs), and suggest properties for which the CW- and pulsed-pump FWM bandwidths are limited in practice. The CW- and pulsed-pump parametric gain is characterized experimentally for several HNLFs with various dispersion properties, including zero...

Transit Oriented Development (TOD), as an integrated transportation and land use policy practice, was given attention in recent decades to (re)formulate urban areas worldwide. Amongst different TOD planning dimensions at play in, the design policies tend basically form backbone of TODs, since a multimodal sustainable movement — public (PT) for long trips well non-motorized (NMT) short ones is o...

The two-component signal transduction pathways in bacteria use a histidine-aspartate phosphorelay circuit to mediate cellular changes in response to environmental stimuli. Here we describe a novel two-component todST system, which activates expression of the toluene degradation (tod) pathway in Pseudomonas putida F1. The todS gene is predicted to encode a sensory hybrid kinase with two unique p...

Let G and X be transitive permutation groups on a set Ω such that G is a normal subgroup of X. The overgroup X induces a natural action on the set Orbl(G,Ω) of non-trivial orbitals of G on Ω. In the study of Galois groups of exceptional covers of curves, one is led to characterizing the triples (G,X,Ω) where X fixes no elements of Orbl(G,Ω); such triples are called exceptional. In the study of ...

Many studies have investigated the effects of transit-oriented development (TOD) on density, design, diversity development, and transit ridership. However, fewer address issue carrying capacity TOD. This paper aims to assess TOD areas' using four criteria (land capability, water availability, socio-economic, green infrastructure) 14 indicators Jakarta's two areas. These results show that even t...