Author Addresses: Lead Author: V. Pieterse, Department of Computer Science, University of Pretoria, Lynnwood Road, Pretoria, 0001, South-Africa; [email protected] Co-authors: D.G. Kourie, Department of Computer Science, University of Pretoria, Lynnwood Road, Pretoria, 0001, South-Africa; [email protected] Andrew Boake, CERA@UP, University of Pretoria, Lynnwood Road, Pretoria, 0001, South-...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Participation in Maintenance of Certification for Family Physicians (MC-FP) is now a requirement for residents to take the American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM) certification examination. The objective of this study was to determine baseline use of MC-FP products prior to this requirement and assess how family medicine residency program directors (FMPD) intended to ...

BACKGROUND Indoxyl sulfate (IS) suppresses erythropoietin (EPO) activity and exerts renal damage. The oral adsorbent AST-120 reduces IS load and has antioxidant and renoprotective properties; however, its roles in the treatment of anemia remain unclear in chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients. METHODS Fifty-one Stage 5 predialysis CKD patients with hemoglobin <10 g/dL were randomly assigned t...

AIM The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of surface treatments on shear bond strength (SBS) of Turkom-Cera (Turkom-Ceramic (M) Sdn. Bhd., Puchong, Malaysia) all-ceramic material cemented with resin cement Panavia-F (Kuraray Medical Inc., Okayama, Japan). MATERIALS AND METHODS Forty Turkom-Cera ceramic disks (10 mm × 3 mm) were prepared and randomly divided into four groups. The di...

La correction et la stabilité du taux d'hémoglobine est un objectif majeur du traitement de l'anémie chez les hémodialysés chroniques. Toutefois, la cible d'hémoglobine > 11g/dl fixée par les recommandations demeure difficile à atteindre dans notre contexte. Le but de cette étude est d'évaluer la réponse au traitement par CERA (continuous erythropoietin receptor activator) chez une population d...

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A polynomial approach is pursued for locally stabilizing discrete-time linear systems subject to input constraints. Using the Youla-Ku cera parametrization and geometric properties of polyhedra and ellipsoids, the problem of simultaneously deriving a stabilizing controller and the corresponding stability region is cast into a standard LMI problem. The approach is illustrated by a numerical exam...