OBJECTIVE: Diabetic nephropathy is a major diabetes complication. Arterial resistance index (RI) may predict deterioration in kidney function. This study was designed to compare renal arterial RI in different stages of renal function according to glomerular filtration rate (GFR), serum creatinine level and proteinuria. MATERIALS AND METHODS: In a cross-sectional study on 81 diabetic patients i...

where α and β range over all continuous non-decreasing functions with α(0) = β(0) = 0 and α(1) = β(1) = 1, and d′ is a distance metric between points. The functions α and β are also refereed to as reparametrizations. We call (α, β) a matching between P and Q. The Fréchet distance is described intuitively by a man walking a dog on a leash. The man follows a curve (path), and the dog follows anot...

We extend the ideas of Snevily and Avgustinovitch to enlarge the families of 2mregular graphs and m-regular bipartite graphs that are known to decompose into isomorphic copies of a tree T with m edges. For example, consider r1, . . . , rk with ∑k i=1 ri = m. If T has a k-edge-coloring with ri edges of color i such that every path in T uses some color once or twice, then every cartesian product ...

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OBJECTIVE This study was designed to investigate the value of preoperative thallium-201 (201Tl) SPECT as a predictor of outcome in malignant glioma. METHODS From January 1990 to September 2003, 109 patients with glioma were treated with postoperative radiotherapy. Of these, 36 patients with malignant gliomas who underwent preoperative 201Tl-SPECT were included in this study (grade 3: n=14, gr...

In this work, we incorporate the resolution-of-the-identity (RI) approximation into the theoretical framework of the local triatomics-in-molecules (TRIM) second-order Møller-Plesset (MP2) perturbation theory model. The resultant model, RI-TRIM MP2, emerges as a robust fourth-order methodology that extends the regime of practical MP2 calculations. With RI-TRIM MP2, correlation energy corrections...

Patients requiring liver transplantation (LT) frequently experience renal insufficiency (RI), which affects their survival. Although calcineurin inhibitor-sparing immunosuppressive regimens (CSRs) are well known to prevent RI, the immune state in recipients receiving CSR remains to be intensively investigated. Among 60 cases of living-donor LT at our institute, 68% of the patients had none to m...