Potroom workers in aluminium industry perform physically demanding jobs that include numerous risk factors such as awkward postures, static-load, and lifting and carrying of load. The aim of this study was to identify the most frequent musculoskeletal symptoms (MSS) among workers in an aluminium plant, as well as to examine a possible correlation between MSS incidence and the period of exposure...

BACKGROUND The TAM family of receptor tyrosine kinases (TYRO3, AXL and MERTK) play important roles in modulating innate immune responses and central demyelination. The TAM receptor ligand Protein S (PROS) has also been shown to modulate innate immune cell responses. OBJECTIVES We assessed whether plasma levels of PROS are changed in multiple sclerosis (MS) patients and whether changes are ass...

To evaluate the interactions between hydrogen and mechanical behavior of additively manufactured (AM) 17-4PH martensitic stainless steel (MSS), stress-relaxation tests were performed for both non-charged hydrogen-charged samples. Similar conventional MSS counterpart (CM). The results clearly indicated significant differences in relaxation properties CM AM MSSs H900 state, which attributed to hi...

Objective To characterize T-cell receptors (TCRs) and identify target epitopes in multiple sclerosis (MS). Methods Peripheral blood mononuclear cells were obtained from 39 MS patients 19 healthy controls (HCs). TCR repertoires for α/β/δ/γ chains, diversity, V/J usage determined by next-generation sequencing. β chain compared with affectation status using a novel clustering method, Grouping of L...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the number of women with female genital mutilation (FGM) living in Belgium, the number of girls at risk, and the target population of medical and social services (MSSs) concerned. METHODS Data about prevalence of FGM from the most recently published Demographic and Health Surveys and Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys were applied to females living in Belgium who migrate...

Mobile computing raises many new issues such as lack of stable storage, low bandwidth of wireless channel, high mobility, and limited battery life. These new issues make traditional checkpointing algorithms unsuitable. Coordinated checkpointing is an attractive approach for transparently adding fault tolerance to distributed applications since it avoids domino effects and minimizes the stable s...

To provide the fault-tolerance for the mobile computing systems, many checkpointing-based recovery schemes have been proposed. However, considering the nature of the mobile environment in which some mobile hosts (MHs) are often disconnected from the network and the probability of concurrent failures on MHs is high, any kind of coordination during the checkpointing and even during the recovery m...

Introduction The MSSS, described elsewhere1, has been in use since 2003 and records ED chief complaint data. As of September 2014, there were 88/136 hospital EDs enrolled in MSSS, capturing 83% of the annual hospital ED visits in Michigan. On April 1, 2014 the Healthy Michigan Plan (HMP) was launched. HMP provides healthcare benefits to low-income adult residents who do not qualify for Medicaid...

The radio spectrum of the IEEE 802.16 medium access control (MAC) protocol ranges from 2 to 66 GHz, which is one of potential solutions for broadband wireless access (BWA) or beyond third generation (B3G)/4G networks. However, with the characteristic of radio propagation, the maximum transmission distance is proportioned inversely to the frequency which the mobile subscriber station (MSS) carri...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The influence of apolipoprotein E (ApoE) polymorphism on clinical severity of multiple sclerosis (MS) is still controversial. Cigarette smoking has been suggested to influence the progression of disability in these patients. In this study, we aimed to investigate whether an interaction of smoking with the ApoE polymorphism influences the progression of disability in MS pa...