Antihypertensive efficacy of single-pill combinations (SPCs) consisting of a β1 -selective adrenergic blocker with vasodilatory properties via β3 -agonism (nebivolol) and an angiotensin II receptor blocker (valsartan) was demonstrated in an 8-week phase 3 trial (NCT01508026). In this post hoc analysis, seated blood pressure, heart rate, 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure monitoring, plasma aldos...

Air plasma spray (APS) process is used to produce high density and flowability spherical powders. Phase transformation that occurred in this process isn’t well known. In this paper, the YSZ powders have been sprayed in water to investigate the morphology changes and phase transformations via air plasma spray (APS) method. Phase analysis of powders was examined by XRD and the crystallite size an...

Applications of the phase space approach to the calculation of the microlensing autocorrelation function are presented. The continuous propagation equation for a random star field with a Gaussian velocity distribution is solved in the leading non-trivial approximation using the perturbation technique. It is shown that microlensing modulations can be important in the interpretation of optical an...

Batch-wise variations, called intra-batch evolution here, widely exist in batch processes. In this paper, intra-batch evolution is tracked and monitored for multiphase batch processes. First, a batch cycle is divided into multiple phases. Within each phase, sliding windows are constructed for analysis of intra-batch relative variations, based on which different process modes are separated in or...

Air pollution is a big concern in a city like Delhi where more than 16 million people are exposed to severely high pollutant concentrations on an annual average basis. It is in this regard that the Government of Delhi introduced Odd-Even scheme in which plying of privately owned cars was restricted on alternate days based on the last digit (odd/even) of the registration number. However, there w...

As a common approach in the development of control charts Statistical Process Control (SPC), an industrial process is monitored with one or more quality characteristics using their corresponding distributions. Note though, modelling through relation between some independent and dependent variables alternative which designated as profiles monitoring. This study proposes integration adaptive to c...

Mobile technologies hold promise for improving diet and physical activity, but little attention is given to creating programs that adolescents like and will use. This study developed a personal digital assistant (PDA) program to promote increased intake of fruits and vegetables (FV) in predominately low-income, ethnic minority girls. This study used a three-phase community-engaged process, incl...