BACKGROUND Because interventions that prevent and treat events due to cardiovascular disease are applied to different, but overlapping, segments of the population, it can be difficult to estimate their effectiveness if formal calculations are not available. METHODS Markov chain analysis, including sensitivity analysis, was used with a hypothetical population resembling that of Olmsted County,...

UNLABELLED A 43-question survey was e-mailed to all resident members of the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery (ASCRS), ASCRS members in practice for 5 or fewer years, and residency program directors of 118 U.S. Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education-accredited ophthalmology programs (for distribution to their residents) in June 2010. Two hundred eighty-five of 22...

A 45-year-old patient, caucasian, affected by severe, painful and invalidating rizoarthrosis has been treated by implanting autologous chondrocytes, normally used for degenerative joint diseases of the knee and ankle.

Objective: To report a new therapeutic tactic for the old dislocation of intact mandibular condyle into the middle cranial fossa, which is extremely rare while the reported treatment methods are varied. Methods: The subject was a 29-year-old female who was diagnosed with old dislocation of intact left mandibular condyle into the middle cranial fossa and left zygomatic arch fracture. Gap arthrop...

Anomalous inferior vena cava without intracardiac anomaly is an unusual condition. Herein, we report a 48-year-old female with left-sided inferior vena cava and azygous continuation. accompanied by sick sinus syndrome. This anomaly resulted in difficulty in implanting a traditional hook-on atrial lead. Atrial lead dislodgment occurred repeatedly soon after implanting the pacemaker because of an...

background: this study was conducted to evaluate the effect of melatonin on semen quality and quantity changes and increase of reproductive efficiency in lori-bakhtiari ram in the non-reproductive season. objectives: the purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of melatonin on testicular size and semen qualitative and quantitative changes in the non-breeding season is lori-bakhtiari ...

Ambient intelligence (AmI) environments continuously monitor surrounding individuals’ context (e.g., location, activity, etc.) to make existing applications smarter, i.e., make decision without requiring user interaction. Such AmI smartness ability is tightly coupled to quantity and quality of the available (past and present) context. However, context is often linked to an individual (e.g., loc...

F-Ti-MWW was post-synthesized by implanting fluorine species into a Ti-MWW framework through an acid treatment process in the presence of ammonium fluoride. The effects of NH4F addition amount, acid treatment temperature and precursor Ti content were investigated on the incorporation of F species, the zeolite structure and the coordination sites of Ti. Fluorine-implanting improved the surface h...