BACKGROUND Sick sinus syndrome (SSS) is a common indication for pacemaker implantation. Limited information exists on the association of sick sinus syndrome (SSS) with mortality and cardiovascular disease (CVD) in the general population. METHODS We studied 19,893 men and women age 45 and older in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) study and the Cardiovascular Health Study (CHS), t...

INTRODUCTION Radiography is an unreliable and insensitive tool for the assessment of structural lesions in the sacroiliac joints (SIJ). Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) detects a wider spectrum of structural lesions but has undergone minimal validation in prospective studies. The Spondyloarthritis Research Consortium of Canada (SPARCC) MRI Sacroiliac Joint (SIJ) Structural Score (SSS) assesses ...

In the rabbit uvula-nodulus, vestibular and optokinetic information is mapped onto parasagittal zones by climbing fibers. These zones are related functionally to different pairs of vertical semicircular canals, otolithic inputs and horizontal optokinetic inputs. Vestibular stimulation restricted to one of these zones modulates climbing fiber responses (CFRs). Within each of these zones, simple ...

The goal of this comment is to first point out two loopholes in the paper by Li et al. (2006): 1) so-designed efficient maximal margin criterion (MMC) algorithm for small sample size (SSS) problem is problematic and 2) the discussion on the equivalence with the null-space-based methods in SSS problem does not hold. Then, we will present a really efficient MMC algorithm for SSS problem.

Screen Saver Sciencetm (SSS) is a distributed computing environment in which useful computations are performed on a set of participating computers whenever their screen savers are activated [4]. In contrast to other distributed computing projects, such as SETI@Home (http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu), the compute servers of this system, that is, the part that runs within the screen saver, will...

When a decision-maker gives such type of data like yes, no, abstain, or neutral along with 2-dimensional information in grading system, then the existing notions as fuzzy N-soft set (FN-SS), intuitionistic FN-SS are not capable to handle data. To and other problems we introduce notion complex picture sets (CPFN-SS) which is fusion (CPFSs) (N-SS). CPFN-SS vital technique tricky unreliable real-l...

PURPOSE Scoliosis school screening (SSS) programs have clinically benefited many children through early detection and treatment, as it is clearly stated in the Consensus Paper which has been published by the Society on Scoliosis Orthopaedic and Rehabilitation Treatment (SOSORT). It is also through these SSS programs that almost all of our current knowledge on the natural history and curve progr...

Water evaporating from the ocean sustains precipitation on land. This ocean-to-land moisture transport leaves an imprint on sea surface salinity (SSS). Thus, the question arises of whether variations in SSS can provide insight into terrestrial precipitation. This study provides evidence that springtime SSS in the subtropical North Atlantic ocean can be used as a predictor of terrestrial precipi...