Garcia K, Alaupovic P, Buchanan TA. Effect of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma agonist treatment on subclinical atherosclerosis in patients with insulin-requiring type 2 diabetes. Diabetes Care 2006;29:1545–1553. 11. Detrano RC, Anderson M, Nelson J, Wong ND, Carr JJ, McNitt-Gray M, Bild DE. Coronary calcium measurements: effect of CT scanner type and calcium measure on rescan r...

This paper shows how the performance of feature trackers can be improved by building a hierarchical view-based object representation consisting of qualitative relations between image structures at different scales. The idea is to track all image features individually, and to use the qualitative feature relations for avoiding mismatches, resolving ambiguous matches and for introducing feature hy...

OBJECTIVES The main aim was to investigate the complex inter-relationship between frailty and pain, and the mediating roles of cognitive function, morbidity and mood in this nexus. DESIGN A cross-sectional analysis. SETTING A prospective community-dwelling population-based cohort. PARTICIPANTS 1682 adults age ≥50 years without evident cognitive or functional impairment, or history of canc...

BACKGROUND/AIMS Glomerular kidney disease (GKD) is suspected in patients based on proteinuria, but its diagnosis relies primarily on renal biopsy. We used urine peptide profiling as a noninvasive means to link GKD-associated changes to each glomerular entity. METHODS Urinary peptide profiles of 60 biopsy-proven glomerular patients and 14 controls were analyzed by combining magnetic bead pepti...

BACKGROUND Oxygen enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (OE-MRI) is a novel method of assessing regional ventilation and oxygen diffusion from the alveoli into the capillaries of the lung. The paramagnetic nature of oxygen and deoxyhemoglobin in blood shortens the T1 of the oxygenated tissues. MRI can visualize the effect by a signal increase on T1 weighted images acquired with subjects during br...

Near infrared (NIR) spectroscopy was employed for simultaneous determination of methanol and ethanol contents in gasoline. Spectra were collected in the range from 714 to 2500 nm and were used to construct quantitative models based on partial least squares (PLS) regression. Samples were prepared in the laboratory and the PLS regression models were developed using the spectral range from 1105 to...

This study focuses on Arashi ha Mujyō Monogatari (“The Tale of Transient Popular Kabuki Actor Arashi’s Life”; 1688), a novel from the early modern Japanese literature, written by Saikaku Ihara (1642–93). It is a first work of a Kabuki actor’s life in Japan (Kabuki is a traditional stage arts performed exclusively by male actors with the accompaniment of live music and songs). Then we will exami...

Figure 1. Epidemiologic curve of a hand-foot-and-mouth disease outbreak in a Thai hospital nursery. 11. Saissi EH, Beau-Salinas F, Jonville-Bera AP, Lorette G, Autret-Leca E. Drugs associated with acute generalized exanthematic pustulosis (in French). Ann Dermatol Venereol 2003; 130:612–8. 12. Sidoroff A, Halevy S, Bavinck JN, Vaillant L, Roujeau JC. Acute generalized exanthematous pustulosis (...

Background Through-Time non-Cartesian GRAPPA, a novel parallel imaging method for non-Cartesian trajectories, has recently been shown to provide real-time, free-breathing cardiac images with temporal resolutions of less than 35 ms per frame [Seiberlich N, et al. MRM 2011 Dec;66 (6):1682-8]. The drawback to this method is the need for several fully-sampled datasets for calibration stemming from ...

This paper compares the pricing of credit risk in the bond market and the fast-growing credit default swap (CDS) market. The empirical findings confirm the theoretical prediction that bond spreads and CDS spreads move together in the long run. Nevertheless, in the short run this relationship does not always hold. The deviation is largely due to different responses of the two markets to changes ...