OBJECTIVE Morning blood pressure surge (MBPS) is an independent predictor of atherothrombotic cardiovascular events in hypertensive patients. There is evidence from studies supporting the validity of mean platelet volume (MPV) as a marker of vascular risk and predictor of thrombotic complications. The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between MPV and MBPS in hypertensive pati...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the morning blood pressure surge (MBPS) in Chinese patients with mild to moderate essential hypertension treated with long-term administration of olmesartan, an angiotensin II receptor antagonist according to ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM). MATERIALS AND METHODS In a multi-center, prospective study, we investigated the long-term efficacy of olmesartan by ...

Red-, orange-, and green-emitting integrated optoelectronic sources are demonstrated by transfer printing blue InGaN µLEDs onto ultra-thin glass platforms functionally enhanced with II-VI colloidal quantum dots (CQDs). The forward optical power conversion efficiency of these heterogeneously integrated devices is, respectively, 9%, 15%, and 14% for a blue light absorption over 95%. The sources a...

BACKGROUND The morning surge of blood pressure (BP) is associated with alpha-adrenergic activity. We studied the association between the alpha-adrenergic morning surge in BP and silent cerebrovascular disease in elderly patients with hypertension. METHODS We conducted ambulatory BP monitoring three times (twice at baseline and after nighttime dosing of the alpha1-blocker doxazosin) in 98 elde...

Myelin basic proteins (MBPs) from 6-day-old, 10-day-old, 20-day-old and adult normal mouse brain were compared with those from 20-day-old jimpy (dysmyelinating mutant) mouse brain to determine the effect of reduced levels of proteolipid protein (PLP) on MBPs. Alkaline-urea-gel electrophoresis showed that 6-day-old and 10-day-old normal and jimpy MBPs lacked charge microheterogeneity, since C8 (...

BACKGROUND An exaggerated morning blood pressure surge (MBPS) may be associated with stroke and other cardiovascular events, but the threshold at which an MBPS becomes pathological is unclear. This study aimed to systematically review the existing literature and establish the most appropriate definition of pathological MBPS. METHODS A MEDLINE search strategy was adapted for a range of literat...

In this paper analysis and performance of OLSR and TORA routing protocols is done. We used OPNET Simulation tool we created a network containing 50 mobile nodes with data rate 1 Mbps and 2 Mbps with transmission power 0.005 watts and buffer size 256000 bits each node moves randomly in the network and simulation time was 1500 sec. TORA and OLSR routing protocols were compared in terms of Traffic...

There is expanding interest in mindfulness-based programs (MBPs) within the mainstream. While there are research gaps, there is empirical evidence for these developments. Implementing new evidence into practice is always complex and difficult. Particular complexities and tensions arise when implementing MBPs in the mainstream. MBPs are emerging out of the confluence of different epistemologies-...

This paper presents a new self-resetting CMOS design for an Add-Compare-Select (ACS) unit, which is a key building block in a Viterbi decoder. Static CMOS and two-phase domino CMOS designs have also been implemented for comparison purposes. The simulation results show that, with the SRCMOS technique, the ACS units operate at a data rate of 568 Mbps in a 0.25 micron CMOS technology, as compared ...