Considering hospitalization as an indicator of seriousness of acute respiratory infection (ARI), this study focuses on the association between some environmental factors with the need for hospitalization of children with a diagnosis of ARI. The study analyzed all the medical records (at the Municipal Emergency Ward in Cuiabá, Mato Grosso State) of children under five years of age (both sexes), ...

We conducted a seroepidemiologic study during an outbreak of pandemic (H1N1) 2009 in a boarding school in England. Overall, 353 (17%) of students and staff completed a questionnaire and provided a serum sample. The attack rate was 40.5% and 34.1% for self-reported acute respiratory infection (ARI). Staff were less likely to be seropositive than students 13-15 years of age (staff 20-49 years, ad...

The Adjusted Rand Index (ARI) is frequently used in cluster validation since it is a measure of agreement between two partitions: one given by the clustering process and the other defined by external criteria. In this paper we investigate the usability of this clustering validation measure in supervised classification problems by two different approaches: as a performance measure and in feature...

Activation recovery interval (ARI) has been recently introduced for assessment of repolarization on the cardiac surface. Due to the inhomogeneous conducting effect of the torso we apply statistical tools (first and second moments) for interpreting ARI on the body surface. Variance analysis (Tukey’s and Scheffe’s test) was accomplished using data of 418 patients. The pathological groups were fou...

Acute respiratory infection (ARI) is the most important cause of death for children under five years in developing countries. ARI includes chest infections, coughs and colds, and middle-ear infections, but excludes asthma. The most serious type of ARI is acute lower respiratory infection (ALRI), most of which (in developing countries) is due to pneumonia. ALRI is believed to account for about 2...

This work is devoted to the study of methods and tools for developing ARI in order develop improved approaches improve performance ARI, its security, focus primarily on mobile traffic, cross-platform, ability promote it, find new applications ease development.

Aldose reductase (AR), an enzyme widely believed to be involved in the aberrant metabolism of glucose and development of diabetic complications, is expressed at low levels in the mouse. We studied whether expression of human AR (hAR), its inhibition with lidorestat, which is an AR inhibitor (ARI), and the presence of streptozotocin (STZ)-induced diabetes altered plasma fructose, mortality, and/...

OBJECTIVE As regular administration of xylitol had been effective in preventing acute otitis media (AOM) in children, we tested whether xylitol administered only at times of acute respiratory infection (ARI) reduces the occurrence of AOM. METHODS Healthy children (N = 1277) were recruited from child care centers and randomized after screening with tympanometry to receive either control mixtur...

BACKGROUND Gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms, such as diarrhea, vomiting, abdominal pain and nausea are not an uncommon manifestation of an acute respiratory infection (ARI). We therefore evaluated clinical and microbiological factors associated with the presence of GI symptoms in patients consulting a general practitioner (GP) for ARI. METHODS Nasopharyngeal swabs, stool specimens and clinical ...