BACKGROUND No reliable biochemical markers exist for the differentiation between iron deficiency anemia (IDA) and anemia of chronic disease (ACD) in the setting of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). The aim of this study was to investigate the use of soluble transferrin receptor (sTfR) and sTfR-ferritin (sTfR-F) index in the evaluation of anemia in patients with IBD. METHODS One hundred IBD pa...

Whether being overweight or obese is associated with increased risk of iron deficiency anemia (IDA) remains controversial. We evaluated the dietary intakes and risk for IDA in relation to body mass index (BMI). One thousand two hundred and seventy-four females aged ≥ 19 years, enrolled in the third Nutrition and Health Survey in Taiwan (NAHSIT) 2005-2008, were selected. Half of the women were e...

A soil remediation method based on magnetic beneficiation is reported. A new magnetic solid chelator powder, FS@IDA (core-shell Fe3O4@SiO2 nanoparticles coated with iminodiacetic acid chelators), was used as a reactive magnetic carrier to selectively capture non-magnetic heavy metals in soil by chelation and removal by magnetic separation. FS@IDA was prepared via inorganic-organic and organic s...

Takanori Ida Professor, Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University Research area: Applied Economics Telecommunication Economics and Behavioral Economics Publications selected: [1] Ida, T. (2009) Broadband Economics: Lessons from Japan, Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group): London. [2] Ida, T. and R. Goto (2009) "Simultaneous Measurement of Time and Risk Preferences," International Economic Re...

greater than the 1 : 5 ratios common on other rocky bodies. Contributing causes include rim degradation by whole-body The surface of 243 Ida is dominated by the effects of impacts. ‘‘ringing,’’ relatively thin ejecta blankets around crater rims, No complex crater morphologies are observed. A complete or an extended strength gradient in near-surface materials due range of crater degradation stat...

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OBJECTIVE To diagnose and differentiate iron deficiency anaemia (IDA) from anaemia of chronic disorders (ACD) using serum concentration of soluble transferrin receptors (sTfR). METHODS One hundred and seventy six adult anaemic patients were diagnosed on bone marrow examination as IDA and ACD in the Department of Haematology, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Rawalpindi from November 2001 t...

Recent advances in metareasoning for search has shown its usefulness in improving numerous search algorithms. This paper applies rational metareasoning to IDA* when several admissible heuristics are available. The obvious basic approach of taking the maximum of the heuristics is improved upon by lazy evaluation of the heuristics, resulting in a variant known as Lazy IDA*. We introduce a rationa...

It is well-known that the search algorithms A* and Iterative Deepening (IDA*) can fail to solve state-space tasks optimally due time memory limits. The former typically fails in memory-restricted scenarios latter time-restricted scenarios. Therefore, several were proposed using less than IDA*, such as A*+IDA*, a hybrid algorithm combines IDA*. In this paper, we present Partial Expansion (PEA*) ...

We re-evaluated the old hypothesis that gastritis-induced achlorhydria is a cause of iron deficiency anemia (IDA) in humans. First, we analyzed the currently available research on the association between achlorhydria and IDA. When gastric acid secretion was measured after maximal stimulation, the frequency of achlorhydria (or severe hypochlorhydria) was 44% in patients with idiopathic IDA and 1...