yes, some are. acupuncture relieves subjective symptoms of asthma and reduces medication use in mild to moderate asthma (strength of recommendation [sor]: A, based on systematic review of randomized controlled trials [rCTs] of variable quality). Herbal medications, such as Ginkgo biloba, appear to improve lung function, while herbs such as Tylophora indica and Tsumura saiboku-to may decrease as...

Previous studies reported low benznidazole (BNZ) loading in conventional emulsions due to the weak interaction of the drug with the most common oils used to produce foods or pharmaceuticals. In this study, we focused on how the type of surfactant, surfactant-to-oil ratio w/w (SOR) and oil-to-water ratio w/w (OWR) change the phase behavior of different lipid-based drug delivery systems (LBDDS) p...

As more clinical information with increasing diversity become available for analysis, a large number of features can be constructed and leveraged for predictive modeling. Feature selection is a classic analytic component that faces new challenges due to the new applications: How to handle a diverse set of high dimensional features? How to select features with high predictive power, but low redu...

Successive over-relaxation (SOR) is a computationally intensive, yet extremely important iterative solver for solving linear systems. Due to recent trends of exponential growth in amount of data generated and increasing problem sizes, serial platforms have proved to be insufficient in providing the required computational power. In this paper, we present parallel implementations of red-black SOR...

IT IS UNCLEAR, but studies suggest that it should be based largely on individual risk. The American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry recommends a 6-month interval for preventive dental visits (strength of recommendation [SOR]: C, expert opinion), but a 24-month interval does not result in an increased incidence of dental caries in healthy children and young adults or increased incidence of gingiv...

Clinical evaluation and chest x-ray are recommended for asymptomatic patients with a positive purified protein derivative (PPD) test result, to exclude the slight possibility of active tuberculosis (TB). Patients with radiographic evidence of old (healed) TB infection should also undergo sputum testing (strength of recommendation [SOR]: C, expert opinion). Treatment with isoniazid (INH) monothe...

There are 3: valacyclovir, acyclovir, and topical penciclovir. valacyclovir, 2 g twice in 1 day taken during the prodromal stage of herpes labialis, reduces the episode duration and time to healing. Acyclovir, 400 mg, taken 5 times a day for 5 days, decreases the pain duration and healing time to loss of crust (strength of recommendation [sor]: a, based on randomized controlled trials [rCTs]). ...

There is no single best evidence-based approach to the diagnostic evaluation of night sweats, given the limited number of studies on the subject. A detailed history, however, does appear to be the most important initial diagnostic tool (strength of recommendation [sor]: C, based on usual practice and clinical opinion). No clinical trials have directly studied symptomatic relief of night sweats ...

Our purpose in this paper is to extend p{cyclic SOR theory to consistent singular systems and to apply the results to the solution of large scale systems arising, e.g., in queueing network problems in Markov analysis. Markov chains and queueing models lead to structured singular linear systems and are playing an increasing role in the understanding of complex phenomena arising in computer, comm...