BACKGROUND there is a growing demand for cardiothoracic surgery in patients' aged ≥65 years. OBJECTIVE : to explore which variables were independently associated with functional decline 12 months after cardiothoracic surgery followed by intensive care admission. DESIGN prospective cohort study. SETTING cardiothoracic unit of a university teaching hospital. SUBJECTS a total of 356 elderl...

We prove that a nonlinear version of the Grothendieck-Katz conjecture (essentially in the form given by Ekhedahl, Shepherd-Barron and Taylor) is equivalent to the original Grothendieck-Katz conjecture together with a certain differential algebraic geometric/model-theoretic statement: a type over C(t) with “p-curvature 0 for almost all p” is nonorthogonal to the constants.

Hookworms infect more than 10% of the world's population, but current diagnostic tools have drawbacks. Our objective was to compare the diagnostic performance of three methods (Kato-Katz, ether concentration and FLOTAC techniques) for hookworm diagnosis. Stool samples were obtained from 102 schoolchildren in Côte d'Ivoire. First, a duplicate 41.7mg Kato-Katz thick smear was prepared. Next, a sm...

Let F be a totally real field with ring of integers O and p be an odd prime unramified in F . Let p be a prime above p. We prove that a mod p Hilbert modular form associated to F is determined by its restriction to the partial Serre-Tate deformation space Ĝm ⊗ Op (p-rigidity). Let K/F be an imaginary quadratic CM extension such that each prime of F above p splits in K and λ a Hecke character of...

BACKGROUND Patients with heart failure (HF) experience frequent rehospitalizations and poor functional capacity. Early hospital mobility may prevent functional decline, but mobility patterns among hospitalized HF patients are not yet known. Accelerometers may provide a method to monitor and measure patient mobility objectively. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to describe mobility and f...

Introduction Over the past five years, thousands of articles have appeared in academic journals about new media, the internet and the web. The topics range from identity expression in online communities to how new media may affect political participation and voter turnout. The range of questions is both overwhelming and exciting. At the core of all these explorations lies a more basic question,...

The union of computers and architecture has not come about in spite of glowing predictions over the last ten years. This paper describes several of the reasons why this may be so: the complexity of the profession, the inattention as to how the architects actually design and the lack of top management dedicaton. The current state of the architectural profession is explored and why the architect'...

BACKGROUND The Kato-Katz is the most common diagnostic method for Schistosoma mansoni infection. However, the day-to-day variability in host egg-excretion and its low detection sensitivity are major limits for its use in low transmission zones and after widespread chemotherapy. We evaluated the accuracy of circulating cathodic antigen (CCA) urine-assay as a diagnostic tool of S. mansoni. In com...

Sheldon Katz, Tony Pantev, and Eric Sharpe 1 Department of Mathematics 1409 W. Green St., MC-382 University of Illinois Urbana, IL 61801 2 Department of Physics University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Urbana, IL 61801 3 Department of Mathematics University of Pennsylvania David Rittenhouse Lab. 209 South 33rd Street Philadelphia, PA 19104-6395 [email protected], [email protected], ersh...