Background American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) adults have one of the highest prevalence diabetes (14.7%) in United States, nearly double that White population. As AI/ANs age, they are at high risk for chronic diseases as a well-established factor, such cardiovascular complications dementia. Approximately half AI with dementia diabetes, but little is known about their treatment costs. Our...

ABSTRACT We have conducted radiocarbon ( 14 C) dating of Japanese tree rings from 1053 to 921 BCE and 41 130 CE. Dating was also performed using oxygen isotope dendrochronology investigate subtle structures the calibration curve corresponding beginning end Yayoi period in Japan. These two results followed IntCal20, which included C ages Japan-sourced trees. The findings suggest that specimens o...

As part of research collaboration between MCEER and the National Center for Research in Earthquake Engineering (NCREE) in Taiwan, a team of MCEER/NCREE researchers undertook a reconnaissance mission shortly after the 921 Chi-Chi earthquake occurred in Taiwan at 1:47 a.m. on September 21, 1999. A major objective of this mission was to assess earthquake-induced damage, to document lessons learned...

Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 74:915–921 Published online 18 Mar. 2010 doi:10.2136/sssaj2009.0362 Received 23 Sept. 2009. *Corresponding author (Gary.Varvel@ars.usda.gov). © Soil Science Society of America, 5585 Guilford Rd., Madison WI 53711 USA All rights reserved. No part of this periodical may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying...

Maytham S. Ahmed 1,2,*, Azah Mohamed 1, Raad Z. Homod 3 and Hussain Shareef 4 1 Department of Electrical, Electronic and System Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Built Environments, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi, Selangor 43600, Malaysia; azah_mohamed@ukm.edu.my 2 General Directorate of Electrical Energy Production-Basrah, Ministry of Electricity, Basrah 61001, Iraq 3 Department o...

The Dafermos regularization of a system of n conservation laws in one space dimension admits smooth self-similar solutions of the form u= u(X/T ). In particular, there are such solutions near a Riemann solution consisting of n possibly large Lax shocks. In Lin and Schecter (2004, SIAM. J. Math. Anal. 35, 884–921), eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of the linearized Dafermos operator at such a solu...

Mature cystic teratoma (MCT) is the most common tumour of ovary and includes at least two well-differentiated germ cell layers. The incidence higher in reproductive age group rarely among postmenopausal women. It benign condition however associated with multiple complication such as torsion, ruptured chemical peritonitis. As it rare group, can be presented chronic ovarian mass expected possibil...