The purposes of this study were to determine if there were differences in pain intensity scores, pain duration scores, mood states, and quality of life of oncology outpatients whose pain intensity scores were congruent with their family caregivers compared to patients whose pain intensity scores were non-congruent and to determine if there were differences in mood states, health status, and car...

Numerous hepatitis A outbreaks were linked to the consumption of raw molluscan shellfish in the United States between 1960 and 1989. However, there had been no major molluscan shellfish-associated hepatitis A outbreaks reported in the United States for more than a decade (1989 to 2004). Beginning in late August 2005, at least 10 clusters of hepatitis A illnesses, totaling 39 persons, occurred i...

Severe plastic deformations under high pressure are used to produce nanostructured materials but were studied ex-situ. Rough diamond anvils introduced reach maximum friction equal yield strength in shear and the first in-situ study of evolution pressure-dependent radial distribution nanostructural parameters performed for severely pre-deformed Zr. ω-Zr behaves like perfectly plastic, isotropic,...

Strain gage rosettes are used often in engineering practice to determine strain states at specific points on a structure. Figure 1 illustrates three commonly used strain gage rosette configurations. Each of these configurations is designed with a specific task in mind. The far right rosette in Figure 1 is referred to as a tee rosette. Tee rosettes are two element rosettes and should only be use...

UNLABELLED Colistin is increasingly used as an antibiotic of last resort for the treatment of carbapenem-resistant Gram-negative infections. The plasmid-borne colistin resistance gene mcr-1 was initially identified in animal and clinical samples from China and subsequently reported worldwide, including in the United States. Of particular concern is the spread of mcr-1 into carbapenem-resistant ...

This paper focuses on the nature of jamming, as seen in two-dimensional frictional granular systems consisting of photoelastic particles. The photoelastic technique is unique at this time, in its capability to provide detailed particle-scale information on forces and kinematic quantities such as particle displacements and rotations. These experiments first explore isotropic stress states near p...

Here we report the de novo genome sequencing of Mycoplasma cynos strain C142, isolated from a dog with canine infectious respiratory disease (CIRD) in the United States.

Kirma C. Correlation between the tissue Doppler, strain rate, strain imaging during the dobutamine infusion and coronary fractional flow reserve during catheterization: a comparative study. Int J Cardiol 2005; 102:127–136. 18. Abraham TP, Belohlavek M, Thomson HL, Pislaru C, Khandheria B, Seward JB, Pellikka PA. Time to onset of regional relaxation: feasibility, variability and utility of a nov...

D. B. Ennis, G. Kindlmann, P. A. Helm, I. Rodriguez, E. R. McVeigh Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States, National, Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States, Computer Science, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States Introduction: Tensor data are frequently a result of magnetic resonance im...

Taylor anvil test is one of the dynamic method in which we can determine dependences strain, strain rate, temperature on flow stress. With this method, each cross sec-tion or along axial section specimen conditions under different states stress, rates and subsequent changes microstructure material. This paper describes experimental results (TAT) for TRISTAL carbon steel. The experiment was perf...