OBJECTIVES The Oxford hip score (OHS) is a 12-item questionnaire designed and developed to assess function and pain from the perspective of patients who are undergoing total hip replacement (THR). The OHS has been shown to be consistent, reliable, valid and sensitive to clinical change following THR. It has been translated into different languages, but no adequately translated, adapted and vali...

A local formula for the dimension of a superselection sector in Quantum Field Theory is obtained as vacuum expectation value of the exponential of the proper Hamiltonian. In the particular case of a chiral conformal theory, this provides a local analogue of a global formula obtained by Kac-Wakimoto within the context of representations of certain aane Lie algebras. Our formula is model independ...

3,4-dihydroxy-phenyl lactic acid (DLA) and salvianolic acid B (SAB) are two major water-soluble components of Salvia miltiorrhiza (SM). Previous works have revealed the ability of DLA and SAB to scavenge oxygen free radicals, inhibiting the expression of adhesion molecules CD11b/CD18 in neutrophil. Cardiotonic pills (CP), which is a traditional Chinese medicine compound preparation containing D...

Nonimmediate drug hypersensitivity reactions (DHRs) are diffi cult to manage in daily clinical practice, mainly owing to their heterogeneous clinical manifestations and the lack of selective biological markers. In vitro methods are necessary to establish a diagnosis, especially given the low sensitivity of skin tests and the inherent risks of drug provocation testing. In vitro evaluation of non...

BACKGROUND Induced sputum is the most commonly used method to analyze airway inflammation in cystic fibrosis (CF) patients ex vivo. Due to the complex matrix of the sample material, precise and reliable analysis of sputum constituents depends critically on preanalytical issues. OBJECTIVES Here we compared the commonly used method for sputum processing by dithiothreitol (DTT) with a novel mech...

Data Grid is a type of Grid Computing systems whichis designed to provide geographically distributed data resources to large computational problems that require mining and evaluating large amounts of data. Managing this data in a centralized location increases the data access time and hence much time is taken to execute the job. So to reduce the data access time, "Replication" is used. Data rep...

Landauer principle provides a link between Shannon information entropy and Clausius thermodynamical entropy. We set up here a basic formula for the incremental free energy of a quantum channel, possibly relative to infinite systems, naturally arising by an Operator Algebraic point of view. By the Tomita-Takesaki modular theory, we can indeed describe a canonical evolution associated with a quan...

In this article we introduce a computational procedure, OPTCOMB (Optimal Pattern of Tiling for COMBinatorial library design), for designing protein hybrid libraries that optimally balance library size with quality. The proposed procedure is directly applicable to oligonucleotide ligation-based protocols such as GeneReassembly, DHR, SISDC, and many more. Given a set of parental sequences and the...

Results Ninety patients were evaluated, 54 male, with a median age of 6 years. Personal history of atopy was reported in 65 and previous DHR in 9. Cutaneous manifestations were observed in 86 – urticaria and/or angioedema in 71 and macular or maculopapular exanthema in 15. Other symptoms reported were: respiratory (25), gastrointestinal (8), cardiovascular (5). The interval between dose and rea...

We study sharply localized sectors, known as sectors of DHR-type, of a net of local observables, in arbitrary globally hyperbolic spacetimes with dimension ≥ 3. We show that these sectors define, has it happens in Minkowski space, a C∗−category in which the charge structure manifests itself by the existence of a tensor product, a permutation symmetry and a conjugation. The mathematical framewor...