OBJECTIVE To investigate the association between serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)D] level and history of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP). PATIENTS AND METHODS We identified 16,975 individuals (≥17 years) from the third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III) with documented 25(OH)D levels. To investigate the association of 25(OH)D with history of CAP in these partici...

This paper studies the phenomenon of service-led growth in India over the past two decades from the perspective of household expenditure. We use consumption expenditure data from four recent “thick” rounds of the National Sample Survey in 1993-94, 2004-05, 2009-10 and 2011-12, and study aggregate services as well as 5 individual categories – education, healthcare, transportation, entertainment,...

1 A growing body of evidence implicates the oocyte as a key regulator of ovarian 2 folliculogenesis and early embryonic development. We have screened bovine cDNA microarrays 3 (containing ESTs representing > 15,000 unique genes) with Cy3 and Cy5 labeled cDNA derived 4 from bovine oocyte samples collected at two different stages of meiotic maturation (germinal 5 vesicle versus metaphase II; n = ...

This document provides a brief proposal for “Robust Optimization & Robust Control Synthesis” reading group.

the robustness property can be added to dsc system at the expense of reducing performance, i.e., increasing the sum-rate. the aim of designing robust dsc schemes is to trade off between system robustness and compression efficiency. in this paper, after deriving an inner bound on the rate–distortion region for the quadratic gaussian mdc based rdsc system with two encoders, the structure of the r...

PURPOSE To evaluate the relationship between the structural damage as assessed by time-domain optical coherence tomography (OCT) and functional changes in glaucoma. METHODS In total, 190 patients with normal tension glaucoma or primary open angle glaucoma were included in this study. The thickness of retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) around the optic disc and the area of RNFL defect were deter...