OBJECTIVE To evaluate the cut-off value of the ratio of 24 h urinary free cortisol (24 h UFC) levels post-dexamethasone to prior-dexamethasone in dexamethasone suppression test (DST) during the diagnosis of primary pigmented nodular adrenocortical disease in Chinese adrenocorticotropic hormone-independent Cushing syndrome. DESIGN Retrospective study. PARTICIPANTS The patients diagnosed with...

1 Doutorando em Odontologia pela UFC (Professor Assistente 1 do curso de Odontologia da UFC Campus Sobral). 2 Discente de Odontologia da UFC Campus Sobral. 3 Doutora em Patologia Bucal pela UFRN (Professora do curso de Odontologia da Universidade de Fortaleza UNIFOR). 4 Doutora em Patologia Bucal pela UFRN (Professora Adjunta do curso de Odontologia da UFC Campus Sobral). Universidade Federal d...

Dropping probability of handoff calls and blocking probability of new calls are two important QoS measures for cellular networks. Since the dropping probability of handoff calls is more important, call admission policies are used to maintain the upper bound of dropping probability of handoff calls. The fractional channel policy (FC) is a general call admission policy and includes most prioritiz...

Cloud computing is now a well-consolidated paradigm for on-demand services provisioning on a pay-as-you-go model. Elasticity, one of the major benefits required for this computing model, is the ability to add and remove resources “on the fly” to handle the load variation. Although many works in literature have surveyed cloud computing and its features, there is a lack of a detailed analysis abo...

OBJECTIVE Paediatric Cushing's syndrome (CS) remains a challenge to diagnose and exclude. We assessed the accuracy of 24-hour urinary free cortisol (UFC) determination in children referred for suspected CS. DESIGN We conducted a retrospective study of paediatric patients referred to our centre with suspected CS between 1982 and 2014. PATIENTS Of 66 subjects (mean age 12.9 years; range 4.4-1...

The aim of this study was to investigate interchangeability of two tests to diagnose Cushing's syndrome. We compared 10:00-11:00 PM urinary free cortisol/creatinine ratio (UFC/Cr) with late night 11:00 PM salivary cortisol (LNSC) in normal and obese controls vs. patients with Cushing's syndrome. Mean UFC/Cr did not differ between 69 normal and 62 obese controls (9.9 ± 7.9 vs. 9.7 ± 9.3) whereas...

A universidade tem o compromisso social de difundir saber e conhecimento nela gerada, sendo a extensão principal ferramenta para atingir esse propósito. Considerando ensino, pesquisa como tripé formador da universidade, divulgação do fazer ciência através um projeto guiado por discentes atende com excelência os três eixos. Assim, Projeto Portas Abertas: Histologia, uma visão microscópica vida, ...

aPrograma de Pós-graduação em Ecologia, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia – INPA, Avenida André Araújo, 2936, CEP 69060-001, Amazonas, AM, Brazil bInstituto de Ciências do Mar – LABOMAR, Universidade Federal do Ceará – UFC, Avenida Abolição, 3207, CEP 60165-081, Fortaleza, CE, Brazil cDepartamento de Biologia, Universidade Federal do Ceará – UFC, Campus do Pici, Avenida Mister Hull, 2...

The urinary free cortisol (UFC) test is widely used for the screening of Cushing's syndrome. This case study illustrates the potential failure of the UFC test to correctly diagnose Cushing's disease (CD), indicating that the use of other complementary tests may be necessary to diagnose this disease in some cases.

Over the last fifty years, the finite element method has emerged as a successful methodology for solving a wide range of partial differential equations. At the heart of any finite element simulation is the assembly of matrices and vectors from finite element variational forms. In this paper, we present a general and unified framework for finite element assembly. Based on this framework, we prop...