Despite declining age-standardized stroke incidence in high-income countries, stroke incidence is rising in lowand middle-income countries. Globally, the absolute burden of stroke was high in 2010 with 16.9 million first-ever strokes, 5.9 million stroke-related deaths, and 102 million disabilityadjusted life-years lost. These numbers are projected to increase. Surveillance provides an understan...

UNLABELLED The prevalence and renal prognosis of diagnosed autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) in Japan were estimated. Hospital-based nationwide surveys were conducted in 1995. The number of ADPKD patients who visited hospitals but were not on chronic dialysis was estimated to be 10,000 (95% confidence interval: 8, 200-11,900) and that of ADPKD patients on dialysis was 4,590, ...

In 2002, we celebrated in the Netherlands the 100th anniversary of Einthoven’s first publication on the electrocardiogram (ECG).1,2 During the past century, the ECG has become indispensable for rapid diagnosis and management of patients with a wide variety of cardiac diseases. As pointed out by Fisch,3 the ECG is an easily available, patient-friendly, noninvasive, inexpensive, and reproducible ...

We introduce the Million Song Dataset, a freely-available collection of audio features and metadata for a million contemporary popular music tracks. We describe its creation process, its content, and its possible uses. Attractive features of the Million Song Database include the range of existing resources to which it is linked, and the fact that it is the largest current research dataset in ou...

Thirty-six years ago, I was the first Cobra Pilot to shake the hand of a surviving Cobra Pilot who lost his tail rotor assembly while on a Hunter-Killer mission in South Vietnam. It was a hot, humid day at Quan Loi. I was an in-country trained Cobra maintenance officer for A Troop 3/ 17 Air Cav and Operation Lam Son 719 had been underway for weeks. The siren went off, which meant one of our Hel...

Abstract The structure of the 102 254 No 152 nucleus has been studied for more than 20 yea...