To assess the regional difference and influence of the biological variables on atherosclerosis in female, we analyzed 7 segments of aorta (2 ascending, 3 thoracic, and 2 abdominal) from 90 superficially healthy Korean women (39+/-14 yr of age) who died from external causes. Tissue specimens were macroscopically examined and histopathologically divided into 7 grades for scoring (ATHERO, from 0=i...

23 Background: Early phase clinical trials usually include patients (pts) with advanced disease who have failed to standard therapies. palliative care (EPC) for these pts has shown improve quality of life and even survival. Pallia 10 score (from 1 10) is a tool developed by the French Palliative Care Society identify best time introduce care. Methods: We assessed other prognostic factors (age, ...

Data on body weights at 3 weeks (WK3) and 6 weeks (WK6) and postweaning gain from 3 to 6 weeks (GAIN) were analyzed in eight populations of mice to estimate the differences between populat ions in average direct genetic effects (ADG), average maternal genetic effects (AMG) and direct heterotic effects (DH). The effects of population, sex, group size and interactions were examined. Females were ...

Objective—Lower C2, a continuous blood pressure waveform characteristic asserted to represent small artery elasticity, predicts future cardiovascular disease (CVD) events. We hypothesized that the paradoxical positive association between body mass index (BMI) and C2 may reflect muscle instead of excess fat. Methods—In a multi-ethnic, community living cohort of 1,960 participants, we used comput...

Technical Appendix Table 2. Enterovirus 71 strains selected for phylogenetic analysis Genogroup Origin Year Strain GenBank no. Diagnosis A USA 1970 BrCr U22521 Meningitis B1 Hungary 1978 Hungary-78 AB059815 NA B2 USA 1988 8149-AL-88 55E AF135907 NA B3 Malaysia 1997 0884-MAA-97 AY207645 NA B4 Australia 2000 9918-SYD-00 AY940106 NA B5 Sarawak 2003 SB12869-SAR-03 AY905545 NA C1 USA 1987 0915-MA-87...

This thesis demonstrates that perception plays a role in computing grammatical wellformedness. This is shown specifically for grammatical constraints on word-final consonant cluster inventories (VC 1 C2#), with focus on coda cluster simplification in Trinidad English. The first claim of this thesis is that C2 deletion is triggered when VC 1 C2# is not sufficiently distinguished perceptually fro...

BACKGROUND Human natural killer (NK) cell activity is regulated by a family of killer cell immunoglobulin-like receptors (KIRs) that bind human leukocyte antigen (HLA) class I. Combinations of KIR and HLA genotypes are associated with disease, including susceptibility to viral infection and disorders of pregnancy. KIR2DL1 binds HLA-C alleles of group C2 (Lys80). KIR2DL2 and KIR2DL3 bind HLA-C a...

Several refinements of norm and numerical radius inequalities bounded linear operators on a complex Hilbert space are given. In particular, we show that if A is operator space, then 14A*A+AA*≤18A+A*2+A−A*2+c2(A+A*)+c2(A−A*)≤w2(A) 12A∗A+AA∗−14(A+A∗)2(A−A∗)212≤w2(A)≤12A∗A+AA∗, where ∥⋅∥, w(⋅) c(⋅) the norm, Crawford number, respectively. Further, prove A, D AD∗≤∫01(1−t)(A2+D2)/2+tAD∗I2dt12≤12A2+D...