OBJECTIVE − We investigated the relationship of the metabolic syndrome (MetS) and its single components, defined by four different criteria, with peripheral vascular disease (PVD) in a prospective population-based study. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS − The MetS was defined according to the World Health Organization (WHO), the National Cholesterol Education Program (NCEP), the International Diabet...

purpose : to evaluate the efficacy of autologous plasmin in pediatric vitrectomy and to report the anatomic outcomes of autologous plasmin assisted pediatric vitrectomy methods : in an interventional prospective study, thirty-four pediatric patients with vitreoretinal disorders who needed vitrectomy during 2008 to 2010, included in the study. the patients were divided into two groups: the retin...

INTRODUCTION The Vertigo symptom scale (VSS) is a well established tool for the evaluation of vestibular disorders and the associated symptoms of autonomic arousal and somatosensation. By using a validated Malay version of vertigo symptom scale (MVVSS) questionnaire, the severity of the vertigo from patients' perspective can be determined and rated. Before MVVSS can be applied clinically among ...

Methods: Five groups (n=10) of 2-week-old crossbred pigs with no antibodies to M. hyopneumoniae were vaccinated with one of four commercial M. hyopneumoniae bacterins or with saline at 3 and 5 weeks of age. Lymphocyte stimulation assays and serum antibody concentrations were measured on –7, 28, and 45 post vaccination days (PVD). The pigs were challenged with M. hyopneumoniae strain 11 on PVD 5...

We herein advance a secure steganographic algorithm that uses a turnover policy and a novel adjusting process. Although the method of Wang et al. uses Pixel-Value Differencing (PVD) and their modulus function provides high capacity and good image quality, the embedding process causes a number of artifacts, such as abnormal increases and fluctuations in the PVD histogram, which may reveal the ex...

The alternative sigma factor PvdS is required by Pseudomonas aeruginosa for initiation of transcription from pyoverdine (pvd) promoters. Two divergent PvdS-dependent promoters (pvdE and pvdF) were characterized by deletion analysis, and the minimal promoter region for each included a sequence element, the iron starvation (IS) box, that is present in other pvd promoters. Site-directed mutagenesi...

Animals sample their environment through sensory neurons with often elaborately branched endings named dendritic arbors. In a genetic screen for genes involved in the development of the highly arborized somatosensory PVD neuron in C. elegans, we have identified mutations in kpc-1, which encodes the homolog of the proprotein convertase furin. We show that kpc-1/furin is necessary to promote the ...

Neurons receive excitatory or sensory inputs through their dendrites, which often branch extensively to form unique neuron-specific structures. How neurons regulate the formation of their particular arbor is only partially understood. In genetic screens using the multidendritic arbor of PVD somatosensory neurons in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, we identified a mutation in the ER stress s...

The objective of this study was to characterize the species composition and functional potential vaginal uterine microbiota at 1 wk postpartum in dairy cows diagnosed with or without purulent discharge (PVD) 3 postpartum. hypothesis that differences between (PVD+) (PVD−) PVD were dependent on parity breed. Cytobrush samples vagina uterus collected from 36 Holstein-Friesian (7 primiparous 29 mul...

The paper summarizes the current development of high-velocity oxygen–fuel coupled physical vapor deposition (HVOF-PVD) duplex coatings as protective candidates. Following a detailed historical overview HVOF and PVD technologies, fabrication methods for are presented. coating superimposes synergistic advantages deposited by PVD, where traditional weaknesses each technique modified to great certa...