BACKGROUND/AIM Radical cystectomy is a method of choice in the therapy of infiltrative bladder cancer. The aim of this research was to analyze postoperative course after radical cystectomy (length of hospitalization, most frequent complications and utilization of antibiotics and transfusions). METHODS We analyzed the records of 82 patients operated on in the Department of Urology, Clinical Ce...

OBJECTIVE To report on the rate of 30-day readmission and the rate of additional or revision surgery within 12 months following total ankle replacement (TAR). DESIGN A data-linkage study of the UK National Joint Registry (NJR) data and Hospital Episodes Statistics (HES) database. These two databases were linked in a deterministic fashion. HES episodes 12 months following the index procedure w...

Bacteria play an important role in maintaining the health status of soil ecosystem by preforming many biological processes. Among PGPR, Azospirillum is considered as an important genus which is closely-associated with plants and shows potential to degrade organic contaminants, improve the plant health and increase crops yield. The present study was carried out for the isolation of Azospirillum ...

Introducing Quantum Geometry as a consequence of the quantisation procedure of loop quantum gravity. By recasting general relativity in terms of 1 2 -flat connections, specified by the Holst’s Modification to the Palatini action, we can recast general relativity as a gauge theory. By preforming a 3+1 split of space-time a Legendre transformation can be preformed to give an expression of the Ham...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to evaluate and compare changes to pulmonary function among firefighters and non-firefighters who were exposed to harmful substances in their work environments. METHODS Firefighters (n = 322) and non-firefighters (n = 107) in Daegu who received a pulmonary function test in 2008 and 2011 as well as a regular health examination were included. Repeated me...

The Hsp90 cycle depends on the coordinated activity of a range of cochaperones, including Hop, Hsp70 and peptidyl-prolyl isomerases such as FKBP52. Using mass spectrometry, we investigate the order of addition of these cochaperones and their effects on the stoichiometry and composition of the resulting Hsp90-containing complexes. Our results show that monomeric Hop binds specifically to the Hsp...

[Purpose] This study investigated the effect on activities, shoulder muscle fatigue, upper limb disability of two exercise types performed by patients in the post- immobilization period of rotator cuff repair. [Subjects and Methods] The intervention program was performed by 20 patients from 6 weeks after rotator cuff repair. Ten subjects each were randomly allocated to a group performing open k...

<abstract> <p>The composites industry is present in practically all industrial sectors with an annual growth rate of 5%. Its contribution to the priority "light-weighting" driver transport sector key. The efficiency made possible by evolution manufacturing processes that also improve performance products obtained. For example, out-of-autoclave (OOA) can obtain high-performance such ...

Comparing with the standard L2-norm support vector machine (SVM), the L1-norm SVM enjoys the nice property of simultaneously preforming classification and feature selection. In this paper, we investigate the statistical performance of L1-norm SVM in ultra-high dimension, where the number of features p grows at an exponential rate of the sample size n. Different from existing theory for SVM whic...