The Diagnosis Procedure Combination (DPC) is a global assessment system based on the standardization and visualization of medical data. This system was introduced into the Japanese medical system after its reformation [1]. Since the introduction of the DPC system, medical data have been used secondarily to promote the standardization of medical care as the following studies show. Recent studies...

CONTEXT Positive and negative effects of training induce apparent oscillations of performance, suggesting that the delayed cumulative effects of training on daily performance capacity (DPC) are best fitted by sine waves damped over time. PURPOSE To compare the criterion validity of the impulse-response (IR) model of Banister et al and the damped harmonic oscillation (DHO) model for quantifyin...

Preeclampsia is characterized by reduced placental perfusion with placental ischemia and hypertension during pregnancy. Preeclamptic women also exhibit a heightened inflammatory state and greater number of neutrophils in the vasculature compared to normal pregnancy. Since neutrophils are associated with tissue injury and inflammation, we hypothesized that neutrophils are critical to placental i...

BACKGROUND Isg15 covalently modifies murine endometrial proteins in response to early pregnancy. Isg15 can also be severed from targeted proteins by a specific protease called Ubp43 (Usp18). Mice lacking Ubp43 (null) form increased conjugated Isg15 in response to interferon. The Isg15 system has not been examined in chorioallantoic placenta (CP) or mesometrial (MM) components of implantation si...

Based on the report of the Central Social Insurance Medical Council concerning the 2002 Revision of the Medical Service Fee Schedule, a new inclusive payment system was introduced in 82 special functioning hospitals (university hospitals, National Cancer Center, National Cardiovascular Center) in Japan in April 2003. Beginning in April 2004, the system was gradually extended to general hospital...

Model Predictive Control (MPC) and Direct Power (DPC) are widely used in Doubly Fed Induction Generator (DFIG) applications. However, the context of DPC-based MPC for DFIG, there has been a lack literature focusing on design parameters. In this way, article introduces novel technique designing weighing matrices using Fake Algebraic Riccati Equation (FARE). As FARE is associated with infinite re...

The aim of this study was to investigate if dietary administration of γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA)-producing Lactobacillus brevis DPC 6108 and pure GABA exert protective effects against the development of diabetes in streptozotocin (STZ)-induced diabetic Sprague Dawley rats. In a first experiment, healthy rats were divided in 3 groups (n=10/group) receiving placebo, 2.6 mg/kg body weight (bw) pur...

introduction: the aim of this trial was to compare clinical and radiographic success rates of direct pulp capping (dpc) using a novel biomaterial called calcium enriched mixture (cem) cement versus mineral trioxide aggregate (mta) in primary molar teeth. materials and methods: in this randomized clinical trial 42 deciduous molars in 21 patients who had at least two teeth requiring dpc, were tre...

Mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs) have shown a high potential for cartilage repair. Collagen-based scaffolds are used to deliver and retain at the site of damage. The aim work was comparative analysis capacity MSCs from human adipose tissue differentiate into chondrocytes in vitro stimulate regeneration articular an experimental model rabbit knee osteoarthrosis when cultured on microheterogenic ...

Density peak clustering (DPC) the center selection ignores environment of samples, which can easily result in incorrect identification cluster centers. Additionally, a single allocation approach produce joint effect mistakes. To address above issues, density peaks based on candidate and multi assignment policies (DPC-CM) is proposed. Firstly, to retain centers with relatively small densities, D...