Water clarity is a key parameter for assessing changes of aquatic environment. Coastal waters are complex and variable, remote sensing water it often limited by low spatial resolution. The Sentinel-2 Multi-Spectral Instrument (MSI) imagery with resolution up to 10 m employed solve the problem from 2017 2021. Distribution characteristics Secchi disk depth (SDD) in Jiaozhou Bay (JZB) analyzed. Su...

BACKGROUND following a stroke, morbidity and mortality is high, with aspiration pneumonia being a common complication. OBJECTIVES to determine the levels of colonisation by and isolation of aerobic Gram-negative bacteria (AGNB) in acute stroke patients and determine the effect of selective decontamination of the digestive tract (SDD) on oral flora and whether it reduces both morbidity and mor...

OBJECTIVE Some antipsychotic medications prescribed for the treatment of psychoses, mood disorders or post-traumatic stress disorder in patients with coexisting substance dependence disorders (SDD) have reduced substance dependence. We studied the potential benefits of quetiapine in the treatment of SDD. METHODS We conducted a retrospective chart review of data for 9 patients who were admitte...

In sensory neurons (SNs) of adult Aplysia, serotonin (5-HT)-induced spike broadening has long been implicated as important for synaptic facilitation [spike duration-dependent (SDD) facilitation], particularly at nondepressed synapses. At depressed synapses, spike broadening has less impact on synaptic facilitation; under these conditions, 5-HT induces a spike duration-independent (SDI) form of ...

The objective of this study was to evaluate and compare the effect of four superdisintegrants such as croscarmellose sodium (Ac-Di-Sol), crospovidone (Kollidon CL and with smaller particle sizes Kollidon CL-F), sodium starch glycolate (Explotab) in combination with β-lactose and microcrystalline cellulose (Avicel PH-102) as base excipients exhibiting properties of directly compressed tablets an...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE To establish intraobserver and interobserver variability for regional measurement of CT brain perfusion (CTP) and to determine whether reproducibility can be improved by calculating perfusion ratios. MATERIALS AND METHODS CTP images were acquired in 20 patients with unilateral symptomatic carotid artery stenosis (CAS). We manually drew regions of interest (ROIs) in the ...

In vitro and animal studies suggest a possible role for the tetracycline class of drugs in the inhibition of non-enzymatic protein glycation. We conducted a 3-month, randomized placebo-controlled pilot clinical trial of conventional sub-gingival debridement (periodontal therapy), combined with either a three month regimen of sub-antimicrobial-dose doxycycline (SDD), a two week regimen of antimi...

Laser-based medical techniques for evaluating blood flow (BF), such as laser Doppler flowmetry, speckle contrast imaging, etc., are known, but expensive and have some disadvantages. Recently, we proposed a new technique—incoherent optical fluctuation flowmetry (IOFF), which is realized using LED-based probe. This work aims to theoretically study the dependence of BF registered by IOFF on source...