BACKGROUND An association may exist between pesticide exposure and suicide. OBJECTIVE We sought to evaluate the existence of an association between pesticide use and suicide using data from the Agricultural Health Study (AHS), a prospective cohort study of licensed pesticide applicators and their spouses in Iowa and North Carolina. METHODS Via linkage to state mortality files and the Nation...

IgG, Epstein-Barr virus, measles and rubella were positive but within the normal range, we suspected that the AHS may have been induced by influenza virus infection. Her symptoms diminished following withdrawal of allopurinol and administration of predonisolone. Current hypotheses for mechanisms of the AHS onset include two pathways Fig. 1. First, storage of allopurinol and its metabolite, oxyp...

In some algorithms, segmentation of the word image considers the first step of the recognition processes; the main aim of this paper is proposed new fusion equations for improving the segmentation of word image. The technique that has used is divided into two phases; at the beginning, applying the Arabic Heuristic Segmenter (AHS), AHS uses the shape features of the word image, it employs three ...

In this paper we consider Recommender System (RS) modeling in terms of Adaptive Hypermedia Systems (AHS) and investigate AHS and RS functionality compliance in terms of common features, functionality, building blocks and composition of the system. We bring up complementary aspects of adaptation, personalization and recommendation in a context of a generic framework which provides properties of ...

A 47-year-old right-handed man presented with sudden onset of left-sided weakness and incoordination of his left hand. The patient stated that he was not able to operate his left hand appropriately (video E-1). On examination, he had mild weakness in his left arm and leg. When asked to perform tasks with his right hand, his left hand would imitate the other (video E-2). An MRI showed acute isch...

UNLABELLED African horse sickness virus (AHSV) is a virus species in the genus Orbivirus of the family Reoviridae. There are nine serotypes of AHSV showing different levels of cross neutralization. AHSV is transmitted by species of Culicoides biting midges and causes African horse sickness (AHS) in equids, with a mortality rate of up to 95% in naive horses. AHS has become a serious threat for c...

This experiment was conducted to evaluate the effect of feed withdrawal (F) and heat acclimatization (A) on malebroiler and -layer chickens responses to acute heat stress (AHS) at four weeks of age. Totals of ninety male chicks of broiler or layer type were randomly allocated into 30 pens of grower batteries with raised wire floors. Chicks were subjected to F and A three times a week through th...

BACKGROUND Glycemic control is an important aspect of patient care in the surgical intensive care unit (SICU). This is a pilot study of a novel glycemic analysis tool - the glucogram. We hypothesize that the glucogram may be helpful in quantifying the clinical significance of acute hyperglycemic states (AHS) and in describing glycemic variability (GV) in critically ill patients. MATERIALS AND...

This paper presents a method for analysis of automated highway throughput for AHS designs, including those with platooning. Simulation results are presented which show that increased information leads to higher throughput, and that a platooning design will have higher throughput than any individual vehicle design.

The AHS architecture of the California PATH program organizes traffic into platoons of closely spaced vehicles. A large relative motion between platoons can increase the risk of high relative velocity collisions. This is particularly true whenever platoons are formed or broken up by the join and split control maneuvers and by the decelerate to change lane control maneuver, which allows a platoo...