BACKGROUND The aim of the study was to evaluate if physical functions usually associated with a younger population were of importance for an older population, and to construct an outcome measure for hip osteoarthritis with improved responsiveness compared to the Western Ontario McMaster osteoarthritis score (WOMAC LK 3.0). METHODS A 40 item questionnaire (hip disability and osteoarthritis out...

Purpose To evaluate the clinical safety and natural history of active surveillance (AS) for incidentally diagnosed small renal mass (SRM). Materials and Methods We analyzed prospective data for patients who underwent AS for SRM. From 2010 to 2016, 37 SRMs of less than 3 cm were registered. Computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging were used for initial diagnosis and CT, ultrason...

OBJECTIVE Spatial release from masking (SRM) can increase speech intelligibility in complex listening environments. The goal of the present study was to document how speech-in-speech stimuli could be best processed to encourage optimum SRM for listeners who represent a range of ages and amounts of hearing loss. We examined the effects of equating stimulus audibility among listeners, presenting ...

The control of SRM was discussed: current chopping control, angle position control. This paper presents an inverter circuit and a fuzzy sliding mode control method to minimize the torque fluctuation and noise of the SRM. Based on the experimental results, Using the inverter circuit and fuzzy sliding mode control method can effectively minimize the torque fluctuation and noise of the SRM, For th...

Fig. 5. Comparison of the SRM-based algorithms for the " Bad " channel, SNR = 10 dB. SG: Standard stochastic gradient algorithm. Norm: Normalized stochastic gradient algorithm. SRM: Off-line SRM algorithm of [3], where S k is obtained at time k by averaging all of the data through time k to estimate ensemble averages. Conj Grad: Conjugate gradient algorithm. The results are averaged over 200 sa...

Oral estrogens are directly associated with changes in plasma levels of coagulation proteins. Thus, the detection of any variation in protein concentrations due to estrogen contraceptives, by a simultaneous analysis of both coagulation proteins and estrogens, would be a very informative tool. In the present study, the merit of photo-selected reaction monitoring (SRM), a new analytical tool, was...

This Standard Reference Material (SRM) consists of a sintered alumina disc intended for use in calibration of X-ray powder diffraction equipment with respect to line position and intensity as a function of 2 angle. The solid form of the SRM eliminates any variability in intensity measurements introduced by the sample loading procedure. A unit of SRM 1976b consists of a sintered alumina disc ap...

Four new Standard Reference Materials (SRMs) have been developed to assist in the quality assurance of chemical contaminant measurements required for human biomonitoring studies, SRM 1953 Organic Contaminants in Non-Fortified Human Milk, SRM 1954 Organic Contaminants in Fortified Human Milk, SRM 1957 Organic Contaminants in Non-Fortified Human Serum, and SRM 1958 Organic Contaminants in Fortifi...

A new simplified mathematical model for a switched reluctance motor (SRM) driving a centrifugal pump was developed and experimentally validated. The simplified mathematical model was suitable to simulate the performance of the SRM–pump system and to design its controller. The new simplified model was determined based on the assumption that the SRM phase inductance profiles have triangular wavef...

We report the results of the first large-scale international survey of public perception of geoengineering and solar radiation management (SRM). Our sample of 3105 individuals in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom was recruited by survey firms that administer internet surveys to nationally representative population samples. Measured familiarity was higher than expected, with 8% an...