INTRODUCTION Approximately one third of stable patients with significant intra-abdominal injury do not have significant intraperitoneal blood evident on admission. We hypothesized that a delayed, repeat ultrasound study (Secondary Ultrasound--SUS) will reveal additional intra-abdominal injuries and hemoperitoneum. METHODS We performed a prospective observational study of trauma patients at ou...

RESUMEN Este artículo discutió los conceptos de igualdad y equidad en salud, tomando como escenario el Sistema Único de Salud (SUS) de Brasil. Para tal, se realizó un comentario acerca de los principios del SUS, enfatizando la Universalidad y la Integralidad. Se hizo una breve revisión sobre la historia de la constitución del SUS y del proceso de implantación. Se comentó el contexto de los gran...

Functional overload and anabolic steroid administration induce signaling pathways that regulate skeletal muscle RhoA expression. The purpose of this study was to determine RhoA and associated protein expression at the onset of disuse and after a brief period of reloading. Male Sprague-Dawley rats were randomly assigned to cage control (Con), 3 days of hindlimb suspension (Sus), or 3 days of hin...

OBJECTIVE The evaluation of quality and equity in healthcare attendance requires adequate study methods and information systems. Thus, this study was performed with the objective of comparing mortality among elderly patients attended within the private network and within the Brazilian national health system (SUS). METHOD An information system that recorded causes of hospitalization and associ...

In many organisms, an increasing number of proteins seem to play two or more unrelated roles. Here we report that maize sucrose synthase (SUS) is distributed in organelles not involved in sucrose metabolism and may have novel roles beyond sucrose degradation. Bioinformatics analysis predicts that among the three maize SUS isoforms, SH1 protein has a putative mitochondrial targeting peptide (mTP...

This study examined whether the average usability score for a series of tasks was the same as the usability score for the product if usability was measured only after all the tasks had been completed. Fifty participants completed a set of tasks for five websites and fourteen mock voting ballots. Subjective usability assessment was made with the System Usability Scale (SUS). Participants complet...

Abstract A new paradigm for data science has emerged, with quantum data, models, and computational devices. This field, called machine learning (QML), aims to achieve a speedup over traditional analysis. However, its success usually hinges on efficiently training the parameters in neural networks, field of QML is still lacking theoretical scaling results their trainability. Some trainability ha...

The present study aimed to study the changes of neurotrophin-3 (NT-3) expression of intrafusal muscle fibers in rat soleus muscles under simulated weightlessness. The tail-suspension (SUS) rat model was used to simulate weightlessness. Forty mature female Sprague-Dawley rats were randomly assigned to ambulatory control (CON), 3-day SUS, 7-day SUS, 14-day SUS and 21-day SUS groups. Immunohistoch...

We investigate the parameter-space geometry of recurrent neural networks (RNNs), and develop an adaptation of path-SGD optimization method, attuned to this geometry, that can learn plain RNNs with ReLU activations. On several datasets that require capturing long-term dependency structure, we show that path-SGD can significantly improve trainability of ReLU RNNs compared to RNNs trained with SGD...