The impact of chikungunya virus (CHIKV) infection on diabetic patients (DPs) has not been described. We aimed to compare clinical features of CHIKV infection in DPs and nondiabetic patients (NDPs), and to evaluate its effects on glycemic control among DPs. We recorded clinical information and, in DPs, glycemic control. Forty-six DPs and 53 NDPs aged ≥ 20 years living in Haiti, with acute CHIKV ...

Let P be a lattice polytope in Rn , and let P∩Z n = {v1, . . . , vN }. If the N+ ( N 2 ) points 2v1, . . . , 2vN ; v1 + v2, . . . , vN−1 + vN are distinct, we say that P is a “distinct pairsum” or “dps” polytope. We show that if P is a dps polytope in Rn , then N ≤ 2n , and, for every n, we construct dps polytopes in Rn which contain 2n lattice points. We also discuss the relation between dps p...

Absh-crct-The reliability of distributed processing system (DPS) can be expressed by the analysis of distributed program reliability (DPR) and distributed system reliability (DSR). One of the good approaches to formulate these reliability performance indexes is to generate all disjoint File Spanning l h e s (FST’s) in the DPS graph such that the DPR and DSR can be expressed by the probability t...

This paper is concerned with algorithms for the efficient parallel solution of sparse, symmetric n × n linear systems via direct factorization, which eliminate groups of variables in stages. The algorithms make use of nested dissection to recursively cut data into pieces, producing orderings for direct elimination of the variables, so to reduce the storage and arithmetic requirements. Parallel ...

Dps proteins are found almost ubiquitously in bacterial genomes and there is now an appreciation of their multifaceted roles in various stress responses. Previous studies have shown that this family of proteins assemble into dodecamers and their quaternary structure is entirely critical to their function. Moreover, the numbers of dps genes per bacterial genome is variable; even amongst closely ...

We identified and characterized the iron-binding protein Dps from Campylobacter jejuni. Electron microscopic analysis of this protein revealed a spherical structure of 8.5 nm in diameter, with an electron-dense core similar to those of other proteins of the Dps (DNA-binding protein from starved cells) family. Cloning and sequencing of the Dps-encoding gene (dps) revealed that a 450-bp open read...

There are a number of gaps in reviews relating Ostrom’s design principles (DPs) to common-pool resource (CPR) institutions. These include the geographical distribution of CPRs, the performance of young CPRs relative to the DPs, and the relationship between robustness and success in adherence to the DPs. to This research aims to: (i) explicitly analyze the geographical distribution of the case s...

BACKGROUND Healthy dietary patterns (DPs) have been linked to better cognition and reduced risk of dementia in older adults, but their role in cognitive functioning and decline in the very old (aged ≥85 y) is unknown. OBJECTIVE We investigated the association between previously established DPs from the Newcastle 85+ Study and global and attention-specific cognition over 5 y. METHODS We foll...

The purpose of this investigation was to examine the temporal differences among three measures of pharyngeal stage transition in 40 normal subjects. The measures were (1) Pharyngeal Delay Time (PDT), (2) Stage Transition Duration (STD), and (3) Delayed Pharyngeal Swallow (DPS). Results showed a significant difference between younger and older subjects for PDT and STD but not for DPS. No gender ...