Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has played a substantial role in exacerbating pre-existing disparities access to surgical care. In particular, vulnerable communities have not been able avail the benefits of telemedicine facilities under Medicare coverage waiver. We sought explore trends and predictive factors associated with use. Methods: Patients who underwent hepatopancreatic (HP) surgery b...

this study was performed in year 2010 to evaluate the effect of locality and date of collection on germination and growth of pimpinella aurea dc. seed. the experiment was a factorial one, based upon a completely randomized design of four replications. seeds were collected from three localities in tehran province (tochal, vardavard and lavasanat), at their initial developmental and fully develop...

BACKGROUND The prediction of pathological outcomes prior to surgery remains a challenging problem for the appropriate surgical indication of prostate cancer. This study was performed to identify preoperative values predictive of pathological and oncological outcomes based on standardized extended prostate biopsies with core histological results diagrammed/mapped in patients receiving radical pr...

The anti-inflammatory role of nitric oxide (NO) was studied in a model of hepatic ischemia-reperfusion (I/R) in rats. Male Fischer rats were subjected to 30 min of no-flow ischemia of the left and median lobes of the liver, and animals were examined for a 4-h period of reperfusion. The animals were divided into the following groups: control-vehicle; I/R-vehicle; I/R- N ω-nitro-l-arginine methyl...

OBJECTIVES The study evaluates the clinical course and the development of systolic and diastolic left ventricular function in patients with chronic myocarditis with or without autoantibodies against cardiac myosin. BACKGROUND Patients with myocarditis often show autoantibodies against cardiac myosin. The clinical and pathophysiologic significance of these antimyosin autoantibodies (AMAAB) is ...

Objective: This study was designed to evaluate the effect of positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) and Alveolar recruitment maneuver (ARM) used to improve gas exchange during anesthesia in laparoscopic bariatric surgery on cardiac output parameters using non-invasive thoracic electrical bioimpedance. Study Design: A randomized controlled study was conducted on 30 morbidly obese patients (ASA ...

Street view imagery (SVI) provides efficient access to data that can be used research spatial quality at the human scale. The previous reviews have mainly focused on specific health findings and neighbourhood environments. There has not been a comprehensive review of this topic. In paper, we systematically literature application SVI in built environment, following formal innovation–decision fra...

We develop a variational inference (VI) scheme for the recently proposed Bayesian kernel support vector machine (SVM) and a stochastic version (SVI) for the linear Bayesian SVM. We compute the SVM’s posterior, paving the way to apply attractive Bayesian techniques, as we exemplify in our experiments by means of automated model selection.

The supplementary material is divided into these sections. Section A details the design of stochastic power EP methods and presents relationships between SEP and SVI. Section B extends the discussion of distributed algorithms and SEP’s applicability to latent variable models. Section C provides experimental details of the Bayesian neural network experiments and presents further emprical evaluca...

The present study explores the acceptability of postverbal subjects by intermediate and advanced L2 English learners with L1 Macedonian, a pro-drop Slavic language rich verbal morphology. two languages differ regarding distribution subject-verb inversion (SVI): in it is default pattern thetic sentences, but severely restricts SVI to specific contexts. To test hypothesis that Macedonian encounte...