OBJECTIVE To explore the application of parotid R2* values for evaluating Sjögren syndrome (SS). METHODS Twenty-four consecutive SS patients and 24 sex-matched and age-matched healthy volunteers underwent bilateral parotid 3.0 T magnetic resonance (MR) imaging, including blood oxygenation level dependent sequence. Parotid R2* values of SS patients and volunteers were compared. A receiver oper...

OBJECTIVE To compare test performance characteristics of conventional Pap tests and liquid-based cervical cytology samples. DATA SOURCES Eligible studies, published between 1991 and 2007, were retrieved through PubMed/EmBase searching and completed by consultation of other sources. METHODS OF STUDY SELECTION Studies were selected if a conventional and a liquid-based sample were prepared fro...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Vascular proliferation is a major criterion for grading gliomas on the basis of histology. Relative cerebral blood volume can provide pathophysiologic information about glioma grading. Vessel size imaging, in some animals, can be used to estimate the microvascular caliber of a glioma, but its clinical use remains unclear. Herein, we aimed to compare the predictive power o...

i.p.s. hypergroups are canonical hypergroups such that$[forall(a,x),a+xni x]longrightarrow[a+x=x].$i.p.s. hypergroups were investigated in [1], [2], [3], [4] and it was proved thatif the order is less than 9, they are strongly canonical (see [13]). in this paperwe obtain the sequences of fuzzy sets and of join spaces determined (see [8])by all i.p.s. hypergroups of order seven. for the meaning ...

Purpose To assess the sensitivity of cervical cytology to cancer by pooling individual patient cytology results from cancers diagnosed in studies that assessed cervical screening in low- and middle-income countries. Methods Two authors reviewed studies identified through PubMed and Embase databases. We included studies that reported cervical cytology in which at least one woman was diagnosed ...

OBJECTIVES The diagnosis of high-grade intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasm (IPMN) is difficult to distinguish from low-grade IPMN. The aim of this study was to identify potential markers for the discrimination of high-grade and invasive (HgInv) IPMN from low- and moderate-grade dysplasia IPMN. METHODS Laser capture microdissection was used to isolate distinct foci of low-grade, moderate-g...

Previous empirical evidence is mixed regarding the impact of universal preschool on cognitive skills. We show that enrollment can test scores positively if it does not lead to earlier school enrollment. examine rich student data and use different cutoff dates in Hungary separate beneficial direct effect from a negative indirect may occur through find significant impacts: 6th-grade reading (math...

This paper presents the design of a digitally-controlled speed electrical drive in the presence of arbitrary external immeasurable load disturbances. The extraction of a known class of external disturbances is achieved by using the novel DOB (Disturbance Observer), in which the discrete-time model of external disturbance is included implicitly. It is shown, analytically, by simulation, and expe...

The present study investigated the ability of normal-hearing listeners and cochlear implant users to recognize vocal emotions. Sentences were produced by 1 male and 1 female talker according to 5 target emotions: angry, anxious, happy, sad, and neutral. Overall amplitude differences between the stimuli were either preserved or normalized. In experiment 1, vocal emotion recognition was measured ...