Technical details influence the diagnostic accuracy of the 1 mg ACTH stimulation test Matthew Wade, Smita Baid, Karim Calis, Hershel Raff, Ninet Sinaii and Lynnette Nieman Program in Reproductive and Adult Endocrinology, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and Pharmacy Department, National Institutes of Health, Clinical Center, Building 10, CRC, 1 East, Room 1-3140, 10 Cent...

Abstract Heavy rainfall in extreme climates often causes natural disasters such as floods, landslides, and debris flows. Rainfall-induced slope instabilities are major geological (Glade Environ Geol 35:160–174, 1998; Dai et al. Eng 51:279–290, 1999; Iverson Water Resour Res 36:1897–1910, 2000; Lee Pradhan Landslides 4:33–41, 2007; Li 13:1109–1123, 2016a; Ecol 91:477–486, 2016b; Wu Hydro-mechani...

A retrospective review of the Taiwan National Health Insurance Research Database performed from January 1, 2006 to December 31, 2013. Patients with and without chronic kidney disease (CKD) who had undergone elective or emergent endovascular abdominal aortic repair (EVAR) thoracic (TEVAR) underwent propensity score matching (1109 patients in each group). The CKD group a significantly greater in-...

Citation: Bankó ÉM, Körtvélyes J, Németh J, Vidnyánszky Z. Amblyopic deficit beyond the fovea: delayed and variable single-trial ERP response latencies, but unaltered amplitudes. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2014;55:1109–1117. DOI:10.1167/ iovs.13-13507 PURPOSE. Amblyopia was first described as a deficit of central vision. However, it has long been debated whether this dysfunction is limited to t...

The beneficial effects of anthocyanins consumption on cardiovascular risk are supported by mechanistic and epidemiologic evidence. In order to explore the effects of Vaccinium berries rich in anthocyanins on serum lipids, we conducted a meta-analysis of relevant randomized controlled trials (RCTs). Sixteen studies with 1109 subjects were included in this meta-analysis. Significant heterogeneity...

A controllable self-Raman laser using an adaptive optics (AO)-based control loop featuring an intracavity deformable mirror is reported. This method has the potential to alleviate thermal lensing within the Raman and laser gain media, and enable solid-state Raman lasers to reach new power levels. A proof-of-concept experiment using a Nd:YVO4 self-Raman laser and resulting in 18% enhancement of ...