BACKGROUND There is less data available regarding the characteristics of cognitive impairment in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in a population-based series. METHODOLOGY Patients with ALS incident in Piemonte, Italy, between 2009 and 2011 underwent an extensive neuropsychological battery. Cognitive status was classified as follows: normal cognition, frontotemporal dementia ...

Event causality identification (ECI) aims to identify the causal relationship between events, which plays a crucial role in deep text understanding. Due diversity of real-world events and difficulty obtaining sufficient training data, existing ECI approaches have poor generalizability struggle relation seldom seen events. In this paper, we propose utilize both external knowledge internal analog...

The key components of an Electricity Critical Infrastructure (ECI) are the elements system required to permanently provide services with a certain performance level. In case disruptive events effects on these elements, security factor is their robustness, which important determinant element resilience. Current methods can already assess static level resilience but as yet unable creating dynamic...

The design- and construction stage of large projects are often two separate fragmented processes. Early contractor involvement (ECI) is a project delivery method where the goal to include knowledge into design phase. This done by procuring during phase project. There different approaches which time introduced. research paper aims investigate optimal for contractors enter infrastructure projects...

Abstract Recent literature has highlighted the association of frailty with significantly higher rates morbidity and mortality in patients CNS neoplasms. However, there is a paucity research regarding effects as it relates to neurocutaneous disorders, namely NF1. In this study we evaluated role NF1 compared its predictive utility that Elixhauser Comorbidity Index (ECI). Namely, used Nationwide R...

Stimulation of endothelial cells by cytokines and bacterial lipopolysaccharide leads to activation f the transcription factor NF-KB. NF-KB in turn regulates the expression of several genes involved in the inflammatory reaction, including cell adhesion molecules, interleukins, and transcription factors. One of these induced genes encodes an inhibitor of NF-KB, ECI-~/IKB~, that contains in its 5‘...

Introduction. In India, family/replacement donors still provide more than 45% of the collected blood. With increasing voluntary blood donation and the still-prevalent infectious diseases in donors, we need to augment transfusion-transmitted infections (TTIs) testing before use. Our study was aimed to know the seroprevalence of TTIs among the donors of Rajasthan and the need for newer technologi...

The aim of the study was to investigate the impact of a moderate zinc deficiency and a high intake of polyunsaturated fat on the mRNA expression of peroxisome-proliferator-activated receptor alpha (PPARα), peroxisome-proliferator-activated receptor gamma (PPARγ), and mitochondrial Δ3Δ2-enoyl-CoA isomerase (ECI) in the liver. Weanling rats were assigned to five groups (eight animals each) and fe...

BACKGROUND Bleeding on probing (BOP) is an indicator of tissue inflammatory response to bacterial pathogens. Due to anatomical limitations, the entity and physical state of microbial aggregations located under the gingival margin and their relations to BOP have been hardly investigated till now. The recent introduction of the endoscopy has allowed clinicians to observe the subgingival environme...