We show that the iterative logarithm of the power series ez − 1 is differentially transcendental over the ring of convergent power series.

PURPOSE Group-wise analyses of DTI in mTBI have demonstrated evidence of traumatic axonal injury (TAI), associated with adverse clinical outcomes. Although mTBI is likely to have a unique spatial pattern in each patient, group analyses implicitly assume that location of injury will be the same across patients. The purpose of this study was to optimize and validate a procedure for analysis of DT...

BACKGROUND The primary goal of therapy in patients with hypercholesterolemia and coronary heart disease (CHD) is reducing low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C). This was a multicenter, randomized, double-blind, double-dummy study in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). METHODS Adult patients with T2DM and CHD (N = 93) on a stable dose of simvastatin 20 mg with LDL-C >or= 2.6 m...

PURPOSE To assess relationships between structural and functional biomarkers, including new topographic measures of visual field sensitivity, in patients with autosomal dominant retinitis pigmentosa. METHODS Spectral domain optical coherence tomography line scans and hill of vision (HOV) sensitivity surfaces from full-field standard automated perimetry were semi-automatically aligned for 60 e...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether the baseline retinal sensitivity can predict the best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA) at 1 month after intravitreal bevacizumab (IVB) in eyes with macular edema (ME) associated with a branch retinal vein occlusion (BRVO). SUBJECTS AND METHODS We evaluated 16 eyes of 16 patients who had ME associated with a BRVO. The mean ± standard deviation age was 69.1 ± 8.9 ye...

Patients with focal drug-resistant epilepsy are potential candidates for surgery. Stereo-electroencephalograph (SEEG) is often considered as the "gold standard" to identify the epileptogenic zone (EZ) that accounts for the onset and propagation of epileptiform discharges. However, visual analysis of SEEG still prevails in clinical practice. In addition, epilepsy is increasingly understood to be...

To create life, the first step should logically be formation of condensed system that defines a cell. If original contents were dispersed widely, then those components would require condensation. Absent needed condensation forces, prime substances have remained scattered, with no particular proclivity to form Energy is for above-described process. Without energy splitting water molecules, EZ ca...

Let Ss*(ez) denote the class of starlike functions with respect to symmetric points subordinate exponential function, i.e., which satisfy in unit disk U condition 2zf′(z)f(z)−f(−z)≺ez(z∈U). We obtained sharp estimate second-order Hankel determinants H2,3(f) and improved third-order H3,1(f) for this Ss*(ez).