AIMS To determine the usefulness of fibrinolytic markers as early prognostic indicators in patients with isolated head trauma. MATERIALS AND METHODS Sixty-two consecutive patients (26 women and 36 men; mean age 61 years, range 2-76 years) with isolated head trauma seen within the first three hours of the trauma were included in the study. The Glasgow Coma score (GCS), platelet counts (Plt), p...

BACKGROUND Radiofrequency (RF) subthalamotomies have been proposed since the 1960s to treat patients suffering from Parkinson's disease (PD). Recently, the magnetic resonance (MR)-guided focused ultrasound technology (MRgFUS) offers the possibility to perform subthalamic thermocoagulations with reduced risks and optimized accuracy. We describe here the initial results of the MRgFUS pallidothala...

Hypertension is known to affect around one third of adults globally and early diagnosis is essential to reduce the effects of this affliction. Today’s Blood Pressure (BP) monitoring cuffs are obtrusive and inconvenient for performing regular measurements, and continuous non-invasive blood pressure devices are too complex and expensive for ambulatory use. Hence, there is a strong need for afford...

Nurses are exposed to incidents of workplace violence involving patients and their family members, also coworkers. Studies occupational stressors generally rely on subjective self-reports, questionnaires, or biometric biochemical markers in long-cycle time intervals, but such assessments offer little guidance HF/E intervention efforts. This study examined the viability using wearable sensors de...

Gestures are usually looked at in isolation or from an intra-propositional perspective essentially tied to one speaker. The Bielefeld multi-modal Speech-AndGesture-Alignment (SAGA) corpus has many interactive gestures relevant for the structure of dialogue (Rieser 2008, 2009). To describe them, a dialogue theory is needed which can serve as a speechgesture interface. PTT (Poesio and Traum 1997,...

Interfacial localization of conductive fillers in a cocontinuous immiscible polymer blend is an efficient way improving the electrical and thermal conductivities composite. Conductive path formation at interface structure expected to provide high conductivity by smaller amount filler, which can be used for applications as materials. In this study, biobased poly(lactic acid) (PLA) was blended wi...

Based on the photonic topological transition (PTT), transmission properties of a black phosphorus/aluminum oxide multilayered hyperbolic metamaterial (HMM) are theoretically investigated in mid-infrared region. The results demonstrate that an angular transparency window appears near point PTT, which is achieved by tailoring topology HMM’s equi-frequency surface. full width at half maximum 2.34°...

AIMS To investigate whether lupus anticoagulant (LA) positivity, a marker of endothelial dysfunction, might be relevant to the pathogenesis of diabetic retinopathy (DR). METHODS 32 IDDM patients were examined for LA, fibrinogen, prothrombin (PT), PTT, prothrombin degradation products (F1+2), and activated protein C (APC). RESULTS APC decreased and F1+2 increased significantly in LA positive...

This paper develops robust test procedures for testing the intercept of a simple regression model when it is apriori suspected that the slope has a specified value. Defining unrestricted test (UT), restricted test (RT) and pre-test test (PTT) corresponding to the unrestricted (UE), restricted (RE), and preliminary test estimators (PTE) in the estimation case, the M-estimation methodology is use...