BACKGROUND & AIMS Despite the clinical benefits of using standard (non-disease specific) oral nutritional supplements (ONS) in the community and care homes, there is uncertainty about their economic consequences. METHODS A systematic review was undertaken according to recommended procedures to assess whether ONS can produce cost savings and cost-effective outcomes. RESULTS 19 publications w...

BACKGROUND Raised intracranial pressure (ICP) may lead to increased stiffness of the optic nerve sheath (ONS). OBJECTIVE To develop a method for analyzing ONS dynamics from transorbital ultrasound and investigate a potential difference between patients with raised ICP vs normal ICP. METHODS We retrospectively analyzed data from 16 patients (≤12 years old) for whom ultrasound image sequences...

The coordination properties of the beta-keto phosphine ligands R(2)PCH(2)C(O)Ph (, R = i-Pr; , R = Ph), of the new acetamide-derived phosphine ligand (i-Pr)(2)PNHC(O)Me () and of Ph(2)PNHC(O)Me () have been examined towards Ni(ii) complexes. Comparisons are made between systems in which the PCH(2) function of the ketophosphine has been replaced with an isoelectronic PNH group in amide-derived l...

The design and prototype implementation of a deduct ive processor f o r e f f i c i e n t ex t rac t ion of i m p l i c i t in format ion from e x p l i c i t data stored w i t h i n a r e l a t i o n a l data-base system is descr ibed. General statements (premises or inference ru les ) as wel l as queries are expressed in a canonical form as imp l i ca t i ons . From user quer ies , the system...

Two experiments were conducted to examine the role of three facets of numeracy (objective (ONS), subjective (SNS), and symbolic number mapping (SMap)) in three anchoring tasks (experimenter-given, self-generate, and valuation). We found that the three numeric competencies were associated with different anchoring tasks. SMap was associated with none of the three anchor tasks, while ONS consisten...

When the dividing cells can be assumed to be in a random phase of the cell cycle, the cell cycle length is constant and the population does not increase in size during the exposure time, the fraction labelled cells (F) is determined by the exposure time and the unknown lengths of the S-phase and the cell cycle [1,2]. When two different exposure times are used, the unknown lengths can be derived...

Die meeste van ons leer tydens ons opleiding wat die werking en newe-effekte van m edikam ente is, maar baie min van ons word geleer hoe om m edikamente te misbruik. Dit lyk egter of dit ’n kuns is wat verskillende lede van die mediese en verpleegberoep asook die algemene publiek deur herhaalde bantering verkry. Die doel van die referaat is om voorbeelde te gee van enkele maniere waarop m edika...

This paper outlines the Office for National Statistics (ONS) approach to measuring quality of life in the United Kingdom as part of the Measuring National Well-being programme. It highlights some new approaches to measuring quality of life through household and social statistics and in particular focuses on the work that ONS has undertaken on the inclusion of subjective well-being measures in O...

INTRODUCTION €‚ Occipital nerve stimulation (ONS) may provide relief for refractory headache disorders. However, scant data exist regarding long-€term ONS outcomes. METHODS €‚ The methods used were retrospective review of the medical records of all (nonindustry study) patients who were trialed and implanted with occipital nerve stimulator systems at our institution, followed by a phone inter...

In this paper, by using a special family of filters $mathcal{F}$ on an EQ-algebra $E$, we construct a topology $mathcal{T}_{mathcal{mathcal{F}}}$ on $E$ and show that $(E,mathcal{T}_{mathcal{F}})$ is a topological EQ-algebra. First of all, we give some properties of topological EQ-algebras and investigate the interaction of topological EQ-algebras and quotient topological EQ-algebras. Then we o...