Background: Diabetes is the most common cause of kidney disease in people requiring renal replacement therapy (RRT). RRT projected to dramatically increase globally, with greatest Asia. CREDENCE showed canagliflozin reduces and cardiovascular (CV) events individuals type 2 diabetes (T2DM) chronic (CKD).Methods: We explored efficacy across geographic regions. A Cox proportional-hazards model was...

Abstract Corn ( Zea mays L.) provides a major source of calories for human consumption and therefore, the nutritional components corn have large impact on health. For example, kernels contain antioxidants, such as polyphenols (including anthocyanins other flavonoids) carotenoids. Such compounds represent useful targets biofortification breeding. In this study, we used 34 inbred lines from three...

Geographically isolated places are often sites of exported environmental risks, intense resource extraction, exploitation and marginalization, social policy neglect. These conditions create unique challenges related to vulnerability adaptation that have direct disaster management implications. Our research investigates the relationship between geographic isolation flood-related across Peru’s ec...

This document describes the implementation of two density-based clustering algorithms: DBSCAN [Ester1996] and SNN [Ertoz2003]. These algorithms were implemented within the context of the LOCAL project [Local2005] as part of a task that aims to create models of the geographic space (Space Models) to be used in context-aware mobile systems. Here, the role of the clustering algorithms is to identi...

PREMISE OF THE STUDY We investigated whether wood metabolite profiles from direct analysis in real time (time-of-flight) mass spectrometry (DART-TOFMS) could be used to determine the geographic origin of Douglas-fir wood cores originating from two regions in western Oregon, USA. METHODS Three annual ring mass spectra were obtained from 188 adult Douglas-fir trees, and these were analyzed usin...

OBJECTIVE In public health and health services research, the inclusion of geographic information in data sets is critical. Because of concerns over the re-identification of patients, data from small geographic areas are either suppressed or the geographic areas are aggregated into larger ones. Our objective is to estimate the population size cut-off at which a geographic area is sufficiently la...

This paper discusses a possible approach to ranking geographic regions that can influence multiple infrastructures. Once ranked, decision makers can determine whether these regions are critical locations based on their susceptibility to terrorist acts. We identify these locations by calculating a value for a geographic region which represents the combined values to the decision makers of all th...