BACKGROUND The Valsartan Antihypertensive Long-term Use Evaluation (VALUE) trial was designed to test the hypothesis that for the same blood-pressure control, valsartan would reduce cardiac morbidity and mortality more than amlodipine in hypertensive patients at high cardiovascular risk. METHODS 15?245 patients, aged 50 years or older with treated or untreated hypertension and high risk of ca...

Bridge rail-to-guardrail transitions are designed to shield unprotected ends of bridge rails, which are fixed-obstacle hazards. These structures should provide an effective transition between longitudinal barriers with different lateral stiffness and contain and redirect impacting vehicles without any contact with the rigid sections of the system. Recently, a full-scale crash test was performed...

A 52-year-old man developed diplopia, followed in 3 weeks by ptosis, more pronounced on the right, slight difficulty in talking, chewing, and swallowing, with nasal regurgitation, and mild weakness of the muscles of the neck and limbs. Family and past history were not contributory. There was bilateral ptosis, and the maximum width of the palpebral fissure on upward gaze was 8 mm on the right an...

High-dose-rate (HDR) brachytherapy is a popular modality for treating cancers of the prostate, cervix, endometrium, breast, skin, bronchus, esophagus, and head and neck as well as soft-tissue sarcomas. Because of different source designs and licensing issues, there is a need for specific dosimetry dataset for each HDR source model. The main objective of the present work is to measure 2D relativ...

Frequency-resolved, three-pulse photon echo peak shifts of the accessory pigments of the reaction center of Rhodobacter sphaeroides were recorded to study the ultrafast pigment-protein dynamics. For a qualitative understanding of the data, which includes an increase in rephasing capability after 1 ps, it is necessary to take into account the influence of the primary electron donor P on the 800 ...

FCS 840 Community, Societal, and International Research 3(3,0) Covers issues and methods of community, societal, and international research and evaluation; macro-level assessment of the impact of interventions and the documentation of change; multi-method etic and emic strategies, theory-based evaluation, longitudinal designs, and collaborative, consultative models of research. Preq: PSYCH 810,...

THE development of procedures to isolate large numbers of purified human pancreatic islet cells has made it possible to initiate a new phase of clinical trials in pancreatic islet transplantation for treatment of type 1 diabetes. 1-3 Although nonspecific immunosuppressive agents have been instrumental in controlling alloreactivity to transplanted islet cells. rejection still occurs and is a maj...

Low-temperature bonding methods of optoelectronic chips, such as laser diodes (LD) and photodiode (PD) chips, have been the focus of much interest to develop highly functional and compact optoelectronic devices, such as microsensors and communication modules. In this paper, room-temperature bonding of the optoelectronic chips with Au thin film to coined Au stud bumps with smooth surfaces (Ra: 1...

his article covers two test methods to detect and identify surface organic contamination on bare boards or assemblies that we feel are still not sufficiently known to this industry. They are excellent inspection and corrective action tools to help solve contamination problems. The “Detection” method is simple and safe. and can be used right in the productionarea. with lirmted skilled personnel....

Laser-based medical techniques for evaluating blood flow (BF), such as laser Doppler flowmetry, speckle contrast imaging, etc., are known, but expensive and have some disadvantages. Recently, we proposed a new technique—incoherent optical fluctuation flowmetry (IOFF), which is realized using LED-based probe. This work aims to theoretically study the dependence of BF registered by IOFF on source...