Land Use/Land Cover (LULC) change is a major global concern and topic of scientific debate. In West Africa, the key trend among changes past few years loss natural vegetation related to in different LULC categories, e.g., water bodies, wetland, bare soil. However, not all detected these categories are relevant for management intervention resource-constrained continent, as massive dominant types...

OBJECTIVE To examine lung cancer survival and the impact of comorbidity in the Central Denmark Region from 2000 to 2011. METHODS We performed a population-based cohort study of lung cancer patients diagnosed during four 3-year calendar periods (2000-2002, 2003-2005, 2006-2008, and 2009-2011) in the Central Denmark Region. The Danish National Registry of Patients was used to identify 9,369 inc...

To observe how anti-group A rotavirus antibody seropositivity rates and levels have changed in the western region of Gyeongnam Province, 2,030 serum samples collected at four collection periods (1989-1990, 1994-1995, 1999-2000, and 2004-2005) were tested by Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay for IgG, and IgA antibodies reacting to recombinant VP6 protein. The seroprevalences exhibit no regular p...

The aim of this study was to determine the effect of marker density, level of heritability, number of QTLs, and size of training set on the genomic accuracy over three generations. Thereby, a trait was simulated with heritability of 0.10, 0.25 or 0.40. For each animal, a genome with 20 chromosomes, 1 Morgan each, was simulated. Different marker densities (2000, 4000 and 6000 markers) and 400 an...

OBJECTIVE To analyze the profile of deaths among tuberculosis patients in Campinas, Brazil, between 1993 and 2000, describing TB-AIDS co-infection and the underlying cause of death in the annual cohorts grouped in two periods 1993-1996 and 1997-2000. METHODS A descriptive study of deaths was conducted among patients in Campinas, Brazil, who were being treated for tuberculosis and those report...

Ciprofloxacin resistance was analyzed in 354 Campylobacter jejuni isolates collected during two study periods (1995-1997 and 1998-2000) from travelers returning to Finland. The increase in resistance between the two periods was significant among all isolates (40% vs. 60%; p<0.01), as well as among those from Asia alone (45% vs. 72%; p<0.01).

In this paper we introduce the novel task of “word epoch disambiguation,” defined as the problem of identifying changes in word usage over time. Through experiments run using word usage examples collected from three major periods of time (1800, 1900, 2000), we show that the task is feasible, and significant differences can be observed between occurrences of words in different periods of time.

Abstract Background/Introduction The general atrial fibrillation/flutter (AF) population is well explored and described, but there sparse data on temporal changes in the incidence, AF-readmission rates, practice patterns patients with AF under 65 years of age from unselected cohorts. Purpose To investigate changes, readmission first-time diagnosed between 2000–2018. Methods Using Danish nationw...

periods of immobility during which only sporadic extensions and retractions of the proboscis and twitches of the abdomen also occurred could last as long as 157 min. The majority of these bouts of immobility were Ͼ30 min. In contrast, periods of immobility that lasted Ͻ1 Menlo Park, California 94025 Department of Biological Sciences min were unusual, averaging only 16.6 min per 24 hr, and there...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate emergency peripartum hysterectomy (EPH) cases over a 14-year period in a tertiary center in İstanbul, Turkey. MATERIAL AND METHODS In this retrospective descriptive study, the records of all cases of EPH performed at the Zeynep Kamil Women and Children's Training and Research Hospital between January 2000 and January 2014 were analyzed. Results for 2000-2006 and 2007-201...