INTRODUCTION Identifying and controlling cardiovascular risk factors at an early age may prevent cases of young myocardial infarction (MI). We studied age-related differences in the cumulative incidence of risk factors and the adequacy of primary prevention by surveying 1,556 patients with a first MI admitted to a tertiary hospital in Singapore. METHODS This is a single centre registry-based ...

We describe the system used by IBM in the 1999 HUB4 Evaluation under the 10 times real-time constraint. We detail the system architecture and show that the performance of this system is over 20 percent more accurate at the same speed than the system used in the 1998 Evaluation. Furthermore, we have closed the gap between our unlimited resource system and our 10 times real time system from 45 pe...

maximum percent increase for each patient after the test drug on each of the three days. On day 1, the response of the FEV, to fenoterol was better than that to ephedrine to a highly significant degree ( P < 0.01) at all times from one to six hours (Fig 1) . This degree of difference was found at two, three. and four hours on day 45, and only at three and four hours on day 90 (Fig 2). The respo...

This paper estimates the Marginal Abatement Cost Curve (MACC) of CO2 emissions in China based on a provincial panel for the period of 2001-2010. The provincial marginal abatement cost (MAC) of CO2 emissions is estimated using a parameterized directional output distance function. Four types of model specifications are applied to fit the MAC-carbon intensity pairs. The optimal specification contr...

Occurrence and abundance of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in the agricultural fields in and around Mysore district was studied. Almost all the sampling sites belong to semi-arid region. Most of the crops growing in this region were sampled. AMF percent colonization and spore density and species richness was assessed. Soil samples exhibit varied physico-chemical parameters which correlates with A...

Objective: We aimed to determine the effectiveness of team-based reporting, systems analysis, and redesign to address medical errors in pediatric ambulatory care. Methods: Voluntary, anonymous, nonpunitive reporting, paired with a team-based system analysis and change implementation, was established in an outpatient pediatric department of an urban teaching hospital. Results: In the first year,...