BACKGROUND Telemonitoring interventions featuring transmission of home glucose records to healthcare providers have resulted in improved glycemic control in patients with diabetes. No research has addressed the intensity or duration of telemonitoring required to sustain such improvements. PURPOSE The DiaTel study (10 January 2005 to 1 November 2007) compared active care management (ACM) with ...

The chief complaint (CC) is the data element that documents the patient's reason for visiting the emergency department (ED). The need for a CC vocabulary has been acknowledged at national meetings and in multiple publications, but to our knowledge no groups have specifically focused on the requirements and development plans for a CC vocabulary. The national consensus meeting "Towards Vocabulary...

Despite the potential benefits of Cloud Computing (CC), many (potential) users are reluctant to use CC as they have concerns about data security and privacy. Moreover, the perceived social distance to CC providers can increase risk perceptions. Thus, gaining users’ trust is a key challenge for CC providers. The results of our online experiment confirm that the intention to use CC services is hi...

BACKGROUND Mesothelin, a mesothelial marker, has been found expressed in and as a potential treatment target of cholangioacarcinoma (CC). It is possible that CC may be derived from the cells sharing mesothelial markers. However, the expression of other mesothelial markers in CC is largely unknown. METHODS Thirty CC cases (10 extrahepatic and 20 intrahepatic) were retrieved from our institutio...

BACKGROUND Cystatin C (cC) is a cysteine protease inhibitor that may influence immune response. Our aim was to test the effect of a high concentration of cC, characteristic for uremic patients, on neutrophil (PMN) apoptosis and respiratory burst, as well as the cC secretion from PMNs stimulated with proinflammatory cytokines. MATERIAL/METHODS PMNs from 35 healthy volunteers aged 27-61 years w...

In the domain of academic search engines and research-paper recommender systems, CC-IDF is a common citation-weighting scheme that is used to calculate semantic relatedness between documents. CC-IDF adopts the principles of the popular term-weighting scheme TF-IDF and assumes that if a rare academic citation is shared by two documents then this occurrence should receive a higher weight than if ...

The development of a vitamin D-resistant state in the course of renal failure may be responsible for reduced intestinal absorption of calcium and an impaired response of skeletal tissue. Moreover, the kidney has been shown to carry out the conversion of 25-hydroxycholecalciferol (25-OH-CC) to a highly biologically active metabolite, 1,25-dihydroxycholecalciferol (1,25-diOH-CC). In the present s...

Inflammation is associated with development of atherosclerosis, and cholesterol crystals (CC) have long been recognized as a hallmark of atherosclerotic lesions. CC appear early in the atheroma development and trigger inflammation by NLRP3 inflammasome activation. In this study we hypothesized whether CC employ the complement system to activate inflammasome/caspase-1, leading to release of matu...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate intestinal mucosal cystine crystal (CC) load as a way to estimate tissue cystine content in children with cystinosis. STUDY DESIGN Intestinal mucosal biopsies were obtained endoscopically from children (ages 2-18 years) with cystinosis. Using a special processing technique, CC within histiocytes were easily visible and enumerable in the mucosal tissue. Mean CC counts, c...

The LHCb collaboration newly measured the decay rate of doubly charmed baryon $\Xi^{++}_{cc}\to\Xi^{'+}\pi^+$ and a ratio its branching fraction with respect to that $\Xi^{++}_{cc}\to\Xi^{+}\pi^+$ is reported as $1.41\pm 0.17\pm 0.10$. This result conflicts theoretical predictions made by several groups. In our previous work, following prescription given in early literature where $us$ diquark $...