The rapid economic development (ED) of the Yangtze River Economic Belt (YREB) has had a significant negative impact on regional ecosystem services (ES). Accurately understanding and properly handling relationship between ES ED is critical to achieving coordinated YREB. Restricted by minimal number research units, traditional studies have not fully considered spatial heterogeneity influencing fa...

Bone mass loss is a major complication of chronic cholestatic liver disease (CCD). However, the long-term impact of CCD on bone mass acquisition is unknown. We longitudinally assessed bone mineral density (BMD) and factors involved in bone remodeling in 9 children and adolescents with CCD Child-Pugh A (5 boys/4 girls) and in 13 controls (6 boys/7 girls). The groups were evaluated twice, at base...

Objective To determine clinical features and relevant laboratory investigations of patient with celiac disease (CD) and comparing classical celiac disease (CCD) with Non-diarrheal celiac disease (NDCD). Methods This is a five years retrospective study conducted at The Aga Khan University Hospital Karachi, Pakistan from January 2010 to December 2015, enrolling children from one year to 15 year...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Crossed cerebellar diaschisis (CCD) refers to reduced metabolism and blood flow in the cerebellar hemisphere contralateral to a cerebral lesion. Many cortical areas have been reported to cause CCD without consideration of confounding factors. We performed single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) in patients with cortical infarction to identify regions independen...

OBJECTIVE To compare the detection of microcalcifications on mammograms of an anthropomorphic breast phantom acquired by a direct digital flat-panel detector mammography system (FPM) versus a stereotactic breast biopsy system utilizing CCD (charge-coupled device) technology with either a 1024 or 512 acquisition matrix (1024 CCD and 512 CCD). MATERIALS AND METHODS Randomly distributed silica b...

OBJECTIVES To compare the usefulness of a CCD camera with infrared illumination (IR-CCD camera) over Frenzel glasses (F Glasses) for the observation of spontaneous nystagmus, the incidence and direction of nystagmus, and the frequency, amplitude and slow phase of spontaneous nystagmus. METHODS One hundred vertiginous patients, fifty-three females and forty-seven males participated in this stu...

We introduce an excited state theory for the optimized orbital coupled cluster doubles ~OO-CCD! and valence optimized orbital coupled cluster doubles ~VOO-CCD! models. The equations for transition energies are derived using a similarity transformed Hamiltonian. The effects of orbital relaxation are discussed. We present results for several single-reference molecules (H2O, CH2O, C2H4O, C2H4, BeO...