Aim: The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of intravaginal ejaculation latency time (IELT) and erectile function on anxiety and depression among patients with PE in general and according to the four types of PE. Methods: Between September 2011 and September 2012, we conducted a cross-sectional study in the Anhui province of China. We enrolled 4,000 men aged over 18 years, each of who...

Aortoiliac arterial steno-occlusions in young or middle-aged patients are relatively rare and have been reported in the literature as small aorta syndrome (SAS) or hypoplastic aortoiliac syndrome. We report the case of a 48-year-old Japanese woman with intermittent claudication caused by SAS. We performed left iliofemoral bypass grafting with a Dacron graft via a retroperitoneal approach. Bypas...

SAS Visual Analytics Explorer is an advanced data visualization and exploratory data analysis application that is a component of the SAS Visual Analytics solution. It excels at handling big data problems like the VAST challenge. With a wide range of visual analytics features and the ability to scale to massive datasets, SAS Visual Analytics Explorer enables analysts to find patterns and relatio...

TAMA300 has been upgraded to improve the sensitivity at low frequencies after the last observation run in 2004. To avoid the noise caused by seismic activities, we installed a new seismic isolation system—the TAMA seismic attenuation system (SAS). Four SAS towers for the test-mass mirrors were sequentially installed from 2005 to 2006. The recycled Fabry–Perot Michelson interferometer was succes...

In a previous study, we showed that Staphylococcus aureus supernate (SaS) is a potent agonist for both neutrophils and mononuclear cells. To further investigate the immunomodulating effects of SaS, the effect on different neutrophil receptors was studied. Expression of various neutrophil receptors, before and after treatment with SaS, was quantified by flow cytometry. We found that SaS treatmen...

Background and Purpose—Sleep apnea syndrome (SAS) is a common sleep disorder in stroke patients and is associated with decreased recovery and increased risk of recurrent stroke and mortality. The standard diagnostic test for SAS is poly(somno)graphy, but this is often not feasible in stroke rehabilitation settings. This study investigated the diagnostic value of nocturnal oximetry for screening...

Sequential aggregate signature (SAS) is a special type of public-key signature that allows a signer to add his signature into a previous aggregate signature in sequential order. In this case, since many public keys are used and many signatures are employed and compressed, it is important to reduce the sizes of signatures and public keys. Recently, Lee, Lee, and Yung (PKC 2013) proposed an effic...

While hard disk space is amazingly "cheap" nowadays, many of us programmers continue to find ourselves working in environments that have significant hard disk constraints. The ’always-ever-increasing-in-size’ data set too quickly eats up the hard disk "real estate" available to us which will give us immediate and direct access to our data. How many of us have found ourselves spending an inordin...

We evaluated and compared various broken-line regression models and SAS (SAS Inst. Inc., Cary, NC) procedures for estimating nutrient requirements from nutrient dose response data. We used the SAS (Version 9) procedures NLIN and NLMixed and the response data of Parr et al. (2003), who evaluated the isoleucine requirement of growing swine. The SAS NLIN was used to fit 2 different broken-line reg...

The single-question self-classification Stages of Change scales (SAS) for two modes of physical activity were compared with parallel staging methods. In Study 1, the participants (N = 50) completed SAS in a questionnaire and were then personally interviewed on their physical activity. In four fifths of the cases, SAS indicated the same stage as the interviewer's judgment. In Study 2, a represen...