patients and methods this cross-sectional study included a total of 120 adult predialysis ckd patients. forty patients were allocated in each predialysis ckd group of stages 3, 4, and 5. serum ctnt and hs-crp, plasma nt-probnp, and single spot urine albumin creatinine ratio (acr) were measured. ultrasonographic examination of carotid artery was done with 7.5 mhz linear probe in b mode ultrasono...

BACKGROUND Descemet Stripping Automated Endothelial Keratoplasty (DSAEK) allows selective replacement of the endothelium. Post-operative haze and particles can affect the interface quality and, ultimately, visual outcome. In this study, we evaluated DSAEK interface with in vivo laser confocal microscopy (LCM) in order to: (i) correlate interface status with best corrected visual acuity, and (ii...

An open problem for Distributed Information Retrieval is how to represent large document repositories (known as resources) efficiently. To facilitate resource selection, estimated descriptions of each resource are required, especially when faced with non-cooperative distributed environments[1]. Accurate and efficient Resource description estimation is required as this can have an affect on reso...

BACKGROUND We aimed to compare the clinical judgments of a reference panel of emergency medicine academic physicians against evidence-based likelihood ratios (LRs) regarding the diagnostic value of selected clinical and paraclinical findings in the context of a script concordance test (SCT). FINDINGS A SCT with six scenarios and five questions per scenario was developed. Subsequently, 15 emer...

Method Current research comprised of histo-morphometrical study of 120 skin samples collected in horizontal and vertical orientations from anterior chest area and lateral chest areas of formalin embalmed human cadavers (n = 30). The quantitative fraction of dermal collagen and elastic fiber content was obtained by tissue-quant image analysis. Spearman correlation coefficient (r) was computed to...

A composite collaborative filtering algorithm for personalized recommend will be presented to solve the original Collaborative Filtering algorithm problem including“None of User Starting ”and “Data Sparsity”, and the Spearman rank correlation coefficient will be used as a main correlation coefficient. Top-M commended is going to be used to get the final results in this paper. At last, we will v...

closely controlled. The multi-infarct group had an -intermediate mean plasma carotene concentration and showed no significant correlation between plasma carotene and plasma vitamin A concentrations (Spearman coefficient 0 32). These findings very probably result from including patients who also have Alzheimer's disease in the multi-infarct group.5 The cause of carotenaemia in Alzheimer's diseas...

Methods Study was conducted in ART centre, IMS, BHU. Patients who failed on first line ART (NACO criteria) were included in the study after consent. Virological, immunological and clinical response was assessed at 24 weeks. Independent t-test /Mann-Whitney U test was used for making comparison among the independent groups. Chi-square test was used to test the association between categorical var...