BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES It is increasingly recognized that a low grade of systemic inflammation occurs in patients with advanced chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). C-reactive protein (CRP), a marker of systemic chronic inflammatory response, has been related with decreased survival in large cohorts of COPD patients. The aim of the study was to assess if resting dynamic pulmonary hy...

STUDY OBJECTIVES Results from several studies have described a relationship between pulmonary function and both all-cause and cause-specific mortality. The purpose of this study was to investigate the predictive value of pulmonary function by gender after 29 years of follow-up. DESIGN Prospective study with 29-year follow-up of the Buffalo Health Study cohort. PARTICIPANTS Randomly selected...

In this paper, I argue that standard, co-descriptional glue semantics provides no clear and satisfactory role for the traditional PREDfeatures of LFG, due to the fact that the linear logic of glue semantics does the work of the Completeness and Coherence Constraints. But then I show that a reduced but significant role for PRED-features can be found in an alternative ‘Description-by-Analysis’ (D...

This paper proposes an approach on UNL document summarization. Our approach employs both the surface and semantic information of UNL annotation to summarize documents. With the merit of semantic annotation of the UNL, the essence of the document is efficiently collected which facilitates the abstraction function for language generation. The multilinguality can also be realized through the langu...

Air merupakan kebutuhan yang sangat penting bagi kehidupan manusia, namun tidak semua air dapat dikategorikan sebagai aman untuk diminum oleh karena itu perlu adanya identifikasi pengklasifikasian antara dan diminum. Penelitian ini bertujuan mengetahui tingkat akurasi kualitas sebanyak 3.276 data dengan proses pre-processing menghasilkan konsisten. Dalam penelitian penulis membandingkan tiga me...

Exercise 1 (page 378, line 5) Describe in your own words how the operations lookup, min, max, succ, pred are carried out, and what the time complexity is. Exercise 2 (page 379, line -8) Describe how the operations lookup, min, max, succ, pred, insert, delete are carried out using constant time and one operation in . Exercise 3 (page 381, line 13) Prove that multiplying X by 1 2 f 1 creates the ...

BACKGROUND A 47-year-old Japanese woman was suffering from dermatomyositis with progressive interstitial pneumonia, which was resistant to treatment with prednisolone (Pred) and cyclosporine A (CsA). Unfortunately, the opportunistic infection and steroid psychosis made therapeutic intervention using additional immunosuppressive drugs problematic. To overcome these difficulties, we created a reg...

3D-QSAR studies namely CoMFA, CoMFA region focusing and CoMSIA have been carried out on a series (36 compounds) of HIV-1 entry inhibitors. An alignment rule for the compounds was defined using Distill in SYBYL 7.3. Models were validated using a data set obtained by dividing the data set into a training set and test set using hierarchical clustering, based on the CoMFA fields and biological acti...

A 26-yr-old male patient was referred to the outpatient clinic with a history of recurrent respiratory infections since 8 yrs of age and a daily productive cough with purulent sputum. He related nasal sneezing, hoarseness and wheezing episodes to weather changes and exposure to dusts and chemicals. Dyspnoea on exertion was present during exacerbations. He had never smoked and denied any family ...