Cisplatin is known to induce Fanconi syndrome and renal salt wasting (RSW). RSW typically only requires transient normal saline (NS) support. We report a severe RSW case that required 12 liters of 3% saline. A 57-year-old woman with limited stage small cell cancer was admitted for cisplatin (80 mg/m2) and etoposide (100 mg/m2) therapy. Patient's serum sodium (SNa) decreased from 138 to 133 and ...

Background. Our aim was to study the impact of clinical acute rejection (CR) and subclinical rejection (SR) on outcomes in kidney transplant recipients treated with rapid steroid withdrawal (RSW). Methods. All patients who received a living or deceased donor kidney transplant and were treated with RSW were included. The primary outcome was death-censored graft survival. Biopsies with Banff bord...

Resistance spot welding (RSW) includes many variables that can influence the weld properties. The purpose of this study is to develop an analytical model for prediction of thermal history and weld microstructure in RSW and to find the most important process parameters that influence the weld microstructure. A one dimensional model is proposed for prediction about thermal history during cooling ...

Abstract The resistance spot welding (RSW) method was used to join aluminum alloy AA 1050 and copper UNS C50100 sheets. Mechanical properties of the joints were examined. influence process parameters on tensile shear force discussed. design experiments (DOE) analyze mechanical joints. Three RSW used: current, squeeze time, time. results showed that joint stress increased with increasing current...

Correction: Body density and diving gas volume of the northern bottlenose whale (Hyperoodon ampullatus) Patrick Miller, Tomoko Narazaki, Saana Isojunno, Kagari Aoki, Sophie Smout and Katsufumi Sato There was an error published in J. Exp. Biol. 219, 2458-2468. Eqn 1 was presented incorrectly. A ‘−1’ was missing after the ratio of densities, and the subscript of the first instance of the density ...

This paper discusses technical issues related to delivery and control of IP multimedia services, such as multimedia conferencing, involving heterogeneous end terminals. In particular, it proposes the design of an experimental system for interworking between InterAsterisk eXchange Protocol and RSW session and call control signaling protocols. This IP videoconferencing interworking system is comp...

Recently, we revisited the fast adaptation method called reference speaker weighting (RSW), and suggested a few modifications. We then showed that the algorithmically simplest technique actually outperformed conventional adaptation techniques like MAP and MLLR for 5or 10-second supervised adaptation on the Wall Street Journal 5K task. In this paper, we would like to further investigate the perf...

Resistance spot welding (RSW) has been used widely to join sheet metals. It has been a challenge to get required weld quality in spot welding of dissimilar thickness materials. Weld parameters are not generally available in standards for thickness beyond 4mm. This paper presents the welding process design and parameter optimization of RSW used in joining of low carbon steel sheet of thickness 0...

BACKGROUND Stable circadian rhythm is important for both maternal and fetal health. This retrospective analysis of women in a semiconductor factory evaluated the effect of shift work exposure on childbearing and birth weight. METHODS Records of 440 female employees (initial mean age: 28.4 years) including 111 mothers who had 158 live births during the period of observation (1997-2007) were re...

Pseudoinverse Linear Discriminant Analysis (PLDA) is a classical and pioneer method that deals with the Small Sample Size (SSS) problem in LDA when applied to such application as face recognition. However, it is expensive in computation and storage due to manipulating on extremely large d × d matrices, where d is the dimensionality of the sample image. As a result, although frequently cited in ...