BACKGROUND The relationship between prior health care utilization and respiratory medication prescriptions in an unselected population of patients with COPD is not known. METHODS We determined the prescribed respiratory medications and respiratory and nonrespiratory health care encounters in 523 Veterans with COPD at the Cincinnati Veterans Affairs Medical Center between 2000 and 2005. Prescr...

A nutrition study was conducted to evaluate the growth response of weaned piglets fed diets containing soya beans that had been processed into protein supplements at two different levels of dry matter (DM) and temperature. Four diets contained protein supplements prepared from whole full-fat soya beans equilibrated at 800 or 900 g kgÿ1 DM prior to being heated to 110 or 1258C. An additional die...

PURPOSE Tuberculosis (TB) is a leading cause of death among people living with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa. Several factors influence the efficacy of TB treatment by leading to suboptimal drug concentrations and subsequently affecting treatment outcome. The aim of this cohort is to determine the association between anti-TB drug concentrations and TB treatment outcomes. PARTICIPANTS Patients dia...

Repetitive episodes of brief regional ischemia have been shown to reduce the severity of life-threatening ventricular anhythrnias and infarct size that occur during prolonged occlusion of the coronary artery. This phenomenon is known as ischemic preconditioning. During studies in anesthetized, open chest Wistar rats, we accidentally observed that poorly ventilated animals had a reduced seve...

Neuropathic osteoarthropathy, which is known as Charcot osteoarthropathy, is a degenerative arthritis that develops as a result of proprioceptive and sensory innervation loss. A 47-year-old man was admitted to the emergency department of the hospital with left shoulder pain, which was ongoing and exacerbating for 5 days. Examination of the cervical region takes a crucial part in determining sho...

Vibrotactile discrimination tasks involve perceptual judgements on stimulus pairs separated by a brief interstimulus interval (ISI). Despite their apparent simplicity, decision making during these tasks is biased by prior experience in a manner that is not well understood. A striking example is when participants perform well on trials where the first stimulus is closer to the mean of the stimul...

BACKGROUND Small molecular CCR5 inhibitors represent a new class of drugs for treating HIV-1 infection. The evaluation of the primary resistance mutations associated with entry inhibitors during HIV-1 perinatal transmission is required because they may have a profound impact on the clinical management in MTCT. OBJECTIVES To evaluate the primary resistance mutations to maraviroc and vicriviroc...

BACKGROUND We investigated the use of the gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) antagonist degarelix in everyday clinical practice using registry data from uro-oncology practices in Germany. METHODS Data were analysed retrospectively from the IQUO (Association for uro-oncological quality assurance) patient registry. Data were prospectively collected from all consecutive PCa patients treated w...

Neural radiation field (NeRF)-based novel view synthesis methods are gaining popularity. NeRF can generate more detailed and realistic images than traditional methods. Conventional reconstruction of a room scene requires at least several hundred as input data generates spatial sampling points, placing tremendous burden on the training prediction process with respect to memory computational time...

We give two applications of our prior work toward the Putman–Wieland conjecture. First, we deduce a strengthening result Marković–Tošić on virtual mapping class group actions homology covers. Second, let g ⩾ 2 $g\geqslant 2$ and Σ ′ , n → $\Sigma _{g^{\prime },n^{\prime }}\rightarrow \Sigma _{g, n}$ be finite H $H$ -cover topological surfaces. show action + 1 _{g,n+1}$ an -isotypic component ( ...