BACKGROUND Despite inadequate empirical validation, sit-to-stand (STS) performance is often used as a proxy measure of lower limb strength among older adults. Furthermore, the relationships between bilateral isokinetic hip, knee, and ankle joint strength and their contributions to STS performances among older adults have not been established. The authors evaluated these relationships on 2 STS t...

One cleaved amplified polymorphic sequence (CAPS) and nine sequence tagged site (STS) markers were developed for identifying tall larkspur (Delphinium spp.) plants in three species based on the DNA sequence of known species-specific RAPD markers. Four STS markers were used for identification of Delphinium occidentale, three STS markers for Delphinium barbeyi, and one CAPS and two STS markers fo...

Following treatment 40% of soft tissue sarcoma (STS) patients suffer disease recurrence. In certain cancers circulating cell free DNA (cfDNA) and circulating tumour-derived DNA (ctDNA) characteristics correlate closely with disease burden, making them exciting potential sources of biomarkers. Despite this, the circulating nucleic acid characteristics of only 2 STS patients have been reported to...

ObjectiveRisk stratification of cardiac surgery patients is usually based on the Society Thoracic Surgeons (STS) score, that has limited predictive value in older persons. We aimed assessing whether Short Physical Performance Battery (SPPB) improves, beyond STS assessment hospital prognosis undergoing elective surgery.MethodsAll aged 75+ years referred for to Careggi University Hospital (Floren...

The Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) National Database has three major component databases: the STS Adult Cardiac Surgery Database (ACSD), the STS Congenital Heart Surgery Database (CHSD), and the STS General Thoracic Surgery Database (GTSD). Beginning in January 2016, The Annals of Thoracic Surgery began publishing a monthly series of scholarly articles on outcomes analysis, quality improvem...

Cyanide is a highly toxic cellular poison that requires immediate and aggressive treatments. Combination of sodium nitrite (SN) and sodium thiosulfate (STS) is the treatment of choice but oral treatment of alpha-ketoglutarate (A-KG) has also been shown to significantly antagonize cyanide poisoning in laboratory animals. This study reports the efficacy of various treatment regimens as: (i) repea...

In the context of increasing internationalization science and technology studies (STS) field, reflections on post-coloniality provincialization STS, we examine to what extent a set twelve leading journals field have published papers from different regions worldwide. this exploratory work, based information retrieved Web Science for period 2010–2019, often use Latin America as an example, but re...

This paper describes SVCSTS, a system that was submitted in SemEval-2015 Task 2: Semantic Textual Similarity(STS)(Agirre et al., 2015). The task has 3 subtasks viz., English STS, Spanish STS and Interpretable STS. SVCSTS uses Monolingual word aligner (Sultan et al., May 2014), supervised machine learning, Google and Bing translator API’s. Various runs of the system outperformed all other partic...

The easy availability of food has caused a shift from eating for survival to hedonic eating. Women, compared to men, have shown to respond differently to food cues in the environment on a behavioral and a neural level, in particular to energy rich (compared to low energy) foods. It has been demonstrated that the right posterior superior temporal sulcus (STS) is the only region exhibiting greate...