OBJECTIVE To help inform primary care physicians about how to identify and slow progressive chronic renal failure. QUALITY OF EVIDENCE The National Library of Medicine (1996 to 2000) was searched using PubMed with search terms pertinent to studies on identification, course, and management of chronic renal failure. References in retrieved papers and older literature known to the authors supple...

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BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Unplanned hospital readmission is a devastating experience for patients and is costly for society. This study determined the 60-day unplanned readmission rate and its predicting factors in patients with chronic conditions. METHODS A total of 334 patients discharged from five hospitals were followed for 2 months after discharge. Patients enrolled in the study were disabl...

INTRODUCTION Viscoelastic properties indicate structural alterations in biological tissues at multiple scales with high sensitivity. Magnetic Resonance Elastography (MRE) is a novel technique that directly visualizes and quantitatively measures biomechanical tissue properties in vivo. MRE recently revealed that early relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (MS) is associated with a global decrea...

chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy is an autoimmune disease with progressive and relapsing courses. the main clinical presentations are diffuse deep tendon hyporeflexia or areflexia and symmetric proximal-distal muscles weakness. myasthenia gravis is also an immune mediated disease with fluctuating ocular and bulbar symptoms and sometimes weakness. although both myasthenia gravis...

Data distributions can be represented using different external representations, such as histograms and boxplots. Although the role of external representations has been extensively studied in mathematics, this is less the case in statistics. This study helps to fill this gap by systematically varying the representation that accompanies a task between participants, and assessing how university st...

Abstract The notion of strong external difference family (SEDF) in a finite abelian group (G,+) is raised by M. B. Paterson and D. R. Stinson [5] in 2016 and motivated by its application in communication theory to construct R-optimal regular algebraic manipulation detection code. A series of (n,m, k, λ)-SEDF’s have been constructed in [5, 4, 2, 1] with m = 2. In this note we present an example ...

It is well known that resonance can be induced by external noise or diversity. Here we show that resonance can be induced even by a phase disorder in coupled excitable neurons with subthreshold activity. In contrast to the case of identical phase, we find that phase disorder plays an active role in enhancing neuronal activity. We also uncover that the presence of phase disorder can induce a dou...