BACKGROUND There are evidences of a different employment status between patients undergoing different modalities of renal replacement therapy (RRT). OBJECTIVES The present study aims to compare the indirect costs associated to morbidity in the following RRT alternatives: hemodialysis in a specialized center (HD), automated peritoneal dialysis (APD), continuous ambulatory dialysis (CAPD), and ...

Functionalized X-Bi bilayers (X = Ga, In, and Tl) with halogens bonded on their both sides have been recently claimed to be the giant topological insulators due to the strong band inversion strengths. Employing the first-principles electronic structure calculation, we find the topological band order transition from the order p - p - s of the X-Bi bilayers with halogens on their both sides to th...

Functionalisation of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) with atoms and molecules has the potential to prepare charge–transfer complexes for numerous applications. Here, we used density functional theory dispersion correction (DFT + D) examine encapsulation adsorption efficacy trap halogens. Our calculations show that is exoergic respect gas-phase atoms. The stability inside SWNTs revealed b...

In this work, Phosphotungstic Acid modified Carbon Paste Electrode (PWA-CPE) is used as a substrate for electro-polymerization of o-Anisidine (OA). Also, Triton X-100 (TX-100) surfactant is used as an additive for electrochemical polymerization of OA onto the PWA-CPE, which is investigated as a novel matrix for dispersion of nickel species. The prepared electrodes are characterized by...

This paper addresses a Gaussian interference channel with two transmitter-receiver (Tx-Rx) pairs under stochastic data arrival (GIC-SDA). Information bits arrive at the transmitters according to independent and asynchronous Bernoulli processes (Tx-Tx asynchrony). Each information source turns off after generating a given total number of bits. The transmissions are asynchronous (Tx-Rx asynchrony...

BACKGROUND Transplantation before the initiation of dialysis is associated with prolonged allograft survival. It is unclear if this benefit is attributable to greater residual renal function or to avoidance of dialysis exposure. The authors performed an analysis to determine whether higher renal function at transplant was associated with increased patient and graft survival rates. METHODS The...