BACKGROUND/AIMS We investigated the demographic influence on the performance of the Revised Hasegawa Dementia Scale (HDS-R) and provided normative data of the HDS-R in the elderly. METHODS The HDS-R was administered to 803 community-dwelling cognitively normal elderly subjects aged 55 years or over. Cognitive disorders and psychiatric disorders were strictly excluded using the CERAD-K assessm...

Reliability is one of the fundamental considerations in the design of industrial control equipment. The microprocessor-based Hybrid Duplex fault-tolerant System (HDS) proposed in this paper has high reliability to meet this demand although its hardware structure is simple. The hardware configuration of HDS and the fault tolerance of this system are described. The switching control strategies in...

OBJECTIVE A pathological condition caused by vascular compression at the root entry/exit zone of the cranial nerves is designated hyperactive dysfunction syndrome (HDS) of the cranial nerves. Patients with HDS who exhibited a combination of trigeminal neuralgia (TN), hemifacial spasm (HFS), and/or glossopharyngeal neuralgia were retrospectively reviewed, to study the incidence, etiological fact...

Clustering is a useful technique that divides data points into groups, also known as clusters, such that the data points of the same cluster exhibit similar properties. Typical clustering algorithms assign each data point to at least one cluster. However, in practical datasets like microarray gene dataset, only a subset of the genes are highly correlated and the dataset is often polluted with a...

This paper reports a method for the automatic generation of hanging drops (HDs) for sustained three-dimensional (3D) cell culture. HDs emerge automatically through openings at the bottom of a microfluidic channel, which provides a means of and control over the mass transport into and out of the HD. We demonstrated the automatic formation of an array of HDs of various sizes using a microfluidic ...

BACKGROUND Little is known about clinicians' use of herbs and dietary supplements (HDS), how their personal HDS use changes with time and training, and how changes in their personal use affect their confidence or communication with patients about HDS. METHODS We conducted a prospective cohort study of clinicians before and after an on-line curriculum about HDS in winter-spring, 2005. RESULT...

This aim of this study was to assess the diagnostic accuracy of the International HIV Dementia Scale (IHDS) or HIV Dementia Scale (HDS) for the diagnosis of HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders (HAND). A comprehensive and systematic search was carried out in PubMed and EMBASE databases. Sensitivity, specificity, Q(*)-values, summary receiver operating characteristic curves and other measures...

This study compares the performance of the Cornell Scale for Depression in Dementia (CSDD) and the Hamilton Depression Scale (HDS) in detecting Research Diagnostic Criteria (RDC) major depression in subjects with mild-to-moderate Alzheimer's disease (AD). Thirty-four subjects with this diagnosis and their caregivers were interviewed. The senior author conducted a diagnostic interview to determi...

The recognition potential of most families of DNA-binding domains (DBDs) remains relatively unexplored. Homeodomains (HDs), like many other families of DBDs, display limited diversity in their preferred recognition sequences. To explore the recognition potential of HDs, we utilized a bacterial selection system to isolate HD variants, from a randomized library, that are compatible with each of t...

Herbals and dietary supplements (HDS) can cause hepatotoxicity. Regulation of HDS varies across the globe. In the United States, it is defined by a law that is now two decades old. More recent regulatory approaches in Europe still do not require testing for premarket safety. The true incidence of hepatotoxicity from HDS is unknown. The presentation is most often with a hepatocellular enzyme pat...