BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES In the last 15 years in Canada, there have been less stringent guidelines for peritoneal dialysis (PD) adequacy, availability of novel PD solutions, and lower PD-related peritonitis rates. Effects of these changes on outcomes of incident patients treated with PD during this period are unknown. DESIGN, SETTING, PARTICIPANTS, & MEASUREMENTS Risk of PD technique failure...

A Mass Customisation model is discussed as a competitive positioning strategy in the marketplace adding value to the customer’s end-use. It includes the user as part of the construction process responding to the customer’s demands and wishes. To the present day, almost all proposals for Mass Customisation have been focused on the design phase and single family houses. The reality is that the pr...

OBJECTIVES We compared health status, access to care, and utilization of medical services in the United States and Canada and compared disparities according to race, income, and immigrant status. METHODS We analyzed population-based data on 3505 Canadian and 5183 US adults from the Joint Canada/US Survey of Health. Controlling for gender, age, income, race, and immigrant status, we used logis...

In December 1993, a light-trap survey was made of the Culicoides found at eight horse stables and dairies in the sandy dune field west of Port Elizabeth, South Africa. While it was notable that Culicoides numbers were low (4749) and that the diversity was poor (15 species), the most remarkable fact to emerge, was that C. imicola, the only proven vector of the virus of African horse sickness (AH...

BACKGROUND Among patients treated with percutaneous coronary intervention for chronic total occlusion (CTO-PCI), patients on long-term hemodialysis are at significantly high risk for cardiovascular mortality and morbidity. However, clinical or angiographic predictors that might aid in better patient selection remain unclear. We aimed to assess the acute impact of hemodialysis in patients who un...

Porcine adenovirus-3 (PAV-3) was developed as an expression vector using homologous recombination in Escherichia coli BJ 5183. As a prerequisite, the complete genome of PAV-3 was first introduced as a PacI restriction fragment into a bacterial plasmid. The plasmid, when PacI restricted and transfected into swine testicular cells, produces an infectious virus. The potential of this procedure was...

We report the results of a non-LTE Fe, O and Mg abundance analysis of the carbon-nitrogen-rich ultrametal-poor giants CS 29498–043 and CS22949–037. The abundance of oxygen has been derived from measurements of the oxygen triplet at 7771–5 Å in high resolution spectra obtained with KeckI/HIRES and the forbidden line [O i] 6300 Å detected in the TNG/SARG spectra of CS 29498-043. Detailed non-LTE ...

Recently Haferlach, Wessnitzer, Mangan and Webb (2007) reported producing a novel neural model of the animal behaviour known as path integration, a navigation process requiring a compass and odometer. Here we comment on comparisons that that paper makes with our earlier work, (Vickerstaff & Di Paolo, 2005) where we also evolved a neural model of path integration. The authors make prominent ment...

Galling is a category of severe adhesive wear that defined by surface damage arising between sliding solids, distinguished macroscopic, usually localized, roughening and creation protrusions above the original surface. The identification galling through visual observation tested therefore inherently subjective. Due to microscopic processes behind onset being poorly understood, further work need...

Detection of hypertension and blood pressure control are critically important for reducing the risk of heart attacks and strokes. We analyzed the trends in the prevalence, awareness, treatment, and control of hypertension in the United States in the period 1999-2004. We used the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 1999-2004 database. Blood pressure information on 14 653 individuals...