To assess whether the site of myocardial infarction is an independent prognostic indicator, the outcome of patients with anterior myocardial infarction was compared with that of patients with inferior infarction. A consecutive series of patients who had suffered their first myocardial infarction was analyzed (398 with anterior and 391 with inferior infarction). Patients with anterior myocardial...

room temperature and then maintained at 80°C for 3 h to form micro-cubic PB particles. The solid product was collected by centrifugation and washed six times with Milli-Q water. The final PB product was then dried in a vacuum oven. The GO was synthesised by a modified Hummer's method. [1] To prepare GOPCs, the GO and PB were stirred together in an aqueous solution to form slurries with differen...

This research focuses on a smooth generalization of continuous 2D map based on a smooth 3D varioscale geographical data structure. A Space Scale Cube (SSC) offers non-redundant geometric data for the different level of details. SSC model represents geographic data as a closed polyhedron, to generate a 2D map; SSC is intersected with the projection plane; resulting in a set of 2D polygons. Howev...

This paper considers a robot with multiple sensors navigating an unknown, heterogeneous environment. In these cases sensor errors may produce an unsuitable model of the world. For example, observations from a laser range finder often produce accurate maps in indoor environments but when glass walls are encountered, the laser sees through it and the accuracy degrades. The approach taken is based...

There is now increasing evidence to suggest that adaptive immunity plays a major role in regulating the growth of tumour cells. T cells play a major role in coordinating the immune response against tumourspecific antigens during tumour progression. While T cell activation depends on the initial tumour antigen-specific signal provided to the T cell receptors via the antigenloaded major histocomp...

Introduction The development of smart textiles that yield information on the environment of human beings and their health status is very challenging. The integration of electronics into textiles has reached a high maturity for e.g. heating of napkins, shoe soles, gloves and seats. There have been many approaches to measure heart rate or blood pressure with sensors integrated into textiles (Cher...

10.2217/14750708.2.3.425 © 2 part of Chronic renal insufficiency and atherosclerosis are tightly connected clinical syndromes. Overall, renal function assessed by estimated glomerular filtration rate correlates with total and cardiovascular mortality in a graded fashion. In addition, microalbuminuria is a prognostic indicator for both progression of chronic renal insufficiency and adverse cardi...

Fecal indicator bacteria (FIB) indicative of fecal contamination in urban streams and recreational ocean beaches in Santa Barbara, California often exceed recreational water-quality standards. During low flow, FIB and human-specific Bacteroides concentrations in urban streams were associated with point discharges. FIB concentrations varied three-fold during diurnal sampling as a result of small...

In this paper, we examine the relationship between economic growth, as measured by both real GDP and the output gap, and employment in the ten largest states from 1990 to 2003. Models are developed to estimate the employment intensity of economic growth as well as the timing of the relationship between employment and economic growth. Employment intensity is estimated to range from 0.31 to 0.61 ...

BACKGROUND: The presence of glutathione S-transferase (GST) p1 (GSTP1) or multidrug resistance gene 1 (MDR1) promoter methylation in lung cancer was studied for the first time to the authors’ knowledge; and, to date, the clinical significance of methylation is not clear. The objective of the current study was to determine the promoter methylation status of GSTP1 and MDR1, which encode GST-p and...