Background: Internet disease management has the promise of improving care in patients with heart failure but evidence supporting its use is limited. We have designed a Heart Failure Internet Communication Tool (HFICT), allowing patients to enter messages for clinicians, as well as their daily symptoms, weight, blood pressure and heart rate. Clinicians review the information on the same day and ...

An ELISA for urine microalbumin using microtiter plates has been developed. The assay uses polyclonal anti-human albumin antibody for coating the microtiter plates and the same antibody conjugated with horseradish peroxidase for detection. The assay sensitivity is 1.6 μg/ml. Results by this in-house ELISA show good correlation (r = 0.99) with those obtained by a commercial assay using the Behri...

To cope with the rising labour cost and protect the country’s deteriorating environmental conditions, Chinese policy makers have recently made a series of policy changes to promote innovation and hence the development of a knowledge-based economy in the country in the coming decades. As a result, China’s R&D spending has expanded substantially. This paper contributes to the understanding of R&D...

Canada in the mid-1980s, we know virtually nothing about contraceptive use among Canadians during the 1990s.2 The 1995 General Social Survey (GSS-95) collected detailed information on contraceptive use, as well as fertility and union histories, from a nationally representative sample of Canadian women and men aged 15 and older. The main objective of this article is to use these data to update o...

Purpose. To investigate the clinical abstractnd radiographic outcome of multi-axial expandable pedicle screws (MEPS) in patients with osteoporosis. Methods. One hundred and twenty-!ve consecutive patients received MEPS from the UPASS spinal !xation system to obtain thorocolumbar or lumbosacral stabilization. All patients underwent bone mineral density (BMD) scans. "e indications for use of the ...

We give a speciic product decomposition of the base-point path connected component of the triple loop space of the suspension of the projective plane.

China has experimented with two strategies of reform of its state-owned enterprises (SOE). One is diversification of SOEs’ ownership through introducing non-state sources of investment. Another is to improve the management of SOEs by granting SOEs’ managers autonomy and their employees profit incentives. Utilising a data set on 680 SOEs over 1980-94, we tested the relative effectiveness of two ...

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To compare the gene expression profiling between intestinal-type gastric cancer (IGC) and diffuse-type gastric cancer (DGC), cDNA microarray containing 7334 gene elements was performed on 12 paired IGC specimens/its' normal epithelial tissue and 11 paired DGC specimens/its' normal epithelial tissue. Twenty-seven genes were co-overexpressed in IGC and DGC. These overexpressed genes were related ...