UNLABELLED Endocrine orbitopathy (EO) is the most common extrathyroidal manifestation of Graves disease (GD) but the involvement of the underlying immunological dysregulations remains largely unknown. The major source for IFNa-production, plasmacytoid dendritic cells (PDC) are fundamentally involved in the integration of TH1 and TH2 immune responses but also implicated in the pathogenesis of au...

PURPOSE The purpose of the study was to empirically test items of a new measure designed to assess person-directed care (PDC) practices in long-term care. DESIGN AND METHODS After reviewing the literature, we identified five areas related to PDC: personhood, comfort care, autonomy, knowing the person, and support for relationships. We also identified an additional component of environmental s...

BACKGROUND Proportion of days covered (PDC), a commonly used adherence metric, does not provide information about the longitudinal course of adherence to treatment over time. Group-based trajectory model (GBTM) is an alternative method that overcomes this limitation. METHODS The statistical principles of GBTM and PDC were applied to assess adherence during a 12-month follow-up in psoriasis pa...

This paper presents a run-time pointer aliasing disambiguation method for software pipelining techniques. By combining hardware with software, the method is better than run-time checking method or run-time compensation method, which is capable of dealing with irreversible code, and has limited compensation code space without serious rerollability problem. The new method solves pointer aliasing ...

A method for the prediction of acoustic scatter from complex geometries is presented. The discontinuous Galerkin method provides a framework for the development of a high-order method using unstructured grids. The method's compact form contributes to its accuracy and e ciency, and makes the method well suited for distributed memory parallel computing platforms. Mesh re nement studies are presen...

In this paper, according to the lack of relevant studies based on reactive power compensation, the control method related to this subject has been investigated and applied to the Parallel Hybrid Active Power Filter (P-HAPF). Firstly, the dq base control algorithm is applied for harmonic compensation. Then, the reactive power compensation control which is supplied by active filter of hybrid acti...