BACKGROUND Transmission of infectious diseases is a recognized complication of blood transfusion and blood products. Nucleic acid testing (NAT) may contribute to improved efficiency of blood screening and thereby increase the safety margin for transfused blood. METHODS Unscreened blood samples from 1388 randomized donors were selected for this study at the Transfusion Medicine Unit of Hospita...

Recently, a number of methods and techniques for assessing the quality of software product lines have been proposed. However, to the best of our knowledge, there is no study which summarizes all the existing evidence about them. This paper presents a systematic review that investigates what methods and techniques have been employed (in the last 10 years) to evaluate the quality of software prod...

Two different baculovirus genes are known to be able to block apoptosis triggered upon infection of Spodoptera frugiperda cells with p35 mutants of the insect baculovirus Autographa californica nuclear polyhedrosis virus (AcMNPV):p35 (P35-encoding gene) of AcMNPV (R. J. Clem, M. Fechheimer, and L. K. Miller, Science 254:1388-1390, 1991) and iap (inhibitor of apoptosis gene) of Cydia pomonella g...

Even though the availability of skilled labour and technological know-how is critical to sustainability small medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), relationships between industry vocational education system have received little attention in recent literature regarding social aspects innovation. The objective this paper analyse intensity industrial SMEs training (VET) centres from firms’ perspective....

OBJECTIVES To identify the age-related benefit of single and bilateral internal thoracic artery (ITA) grafting on long-term cardiac-related survival in patients who survived from primary isolated coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). METHODS A unicenter study was conducted on 12,231 consecutive survivors from primary isolated CABG who received single (n=9566 patients) or bilateral (n=1388 p...

of results Of 1388 age-eligible patients admitted, 716 (52%) were approached. 163 (23%) were clinically ineligible to test. Of the 552 patients offered an HIV test, 383 accepted (Uptake: 69%). Four patients were newly diagnosed as HIV positive (1.04% [95%CI: 0.29 — 2.66%]) and all were transferred to care. A further two individuals were diagnosed via contact tracing. Uptake was not shown to dif...

In a random sample of the German-speaking population of Switzerland (N=1388, 730 women), the technique of spontaneous associations was used to examine the relationship between valence (positive, negative) and content of participants' spontaneous associations with the term "eating" and dietary restraint, ambivalence toward eating, and health consciousness. Regression analysis revealed ambivalenc...

It has been demonstrated that phosphodiesterase 4D (PDE4D) genetic polymorphism is associated with ischemic stroke. However, the association between PDE4D gene and prognosis after ischemic stroke remains unknown. We consecutively enrolled ischemic stroke patients admitted to Beijing Tiantan Hospital from October 2009 to December 2013. Clinical, laboratory and imaging data upon admission were co...