OBJECTIVES To establish a practical method for assessing the general metabolic health conditions among different employee groups, this study utilized the total count of metabolic syndrome (MetS) elements as a parameter, and performed a retrospective analysis comparing changes of MetS component count (MSC) of 5 years among day-time work (DW) and day-andnight rotating shift work (RSW) employees. ...

The current approach to the diagnosis and treatment of hyponatremia is in a state of flux, largely because of an unresolved controversy regarding the relative prevalence of the syndrome of inappropriate secretion of antidiuretic hormone (SIADH) and cerebral salt wasting, or preferably renal salt wasting (RSW). The recent awareness that symptoms are now being attributed to even mild hyponatremia...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The existence and prevalence of cerebral salt wasting (CSW) or the preferred term, renal salt wasting (RSW), and its differentiation from syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone (SIADH) have been controversial. This controversy stems from overlapping clinical and laboratory findings and an inability to assess the volume status of these patients. The authors repo...

The InterAsterisk eXchange (IAX) protocol has been available for a few years. Meanwhile, the popularity of Real time SWitching (RSW) has increased due to its ability to easily combine voice and video services. Incidentally, these two heterogeneous clients pose considerable problems for users who have to choose between two solutions offering different advantages and disadvantages. While RSW is b...

UNLABELLED We have utilized the persistent elevation of fractional excretion (FE) of urate, > 10%, to differentiate cerebral/renal salt wasting (RSW) from the syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone secretion (SIADH), in which a normalization of FEurate occurs after correction of hyponatremia.  Previous studies suggest as well  that an elevated FEurate with normonatremia, without pre-exi...

Hyponatremia, serum sodium < 135 mEq/L, is the most common electrolyte abnormality and is in a state of flux. Hyponatremic patients are symptomatic and should be treated but our inability to consistently determine the causes of hyponatremia has hampered the delivery of appropriate therapy. This is especially applicable to differentiating syndrome of inappropriate antidiuresis (SIAD) from cerebr...

BACKGROUND Rapid steroid withdrawal (RSW) is used increasingly in kidney transplantation but long-term outcomes in African-American (AA) recipients are not well known. We compared 1 and 5 year transplant outcomes in a large cohort of AA patients who were maintained on continued steroid therapy (CST) to those who underwent RSW. METHODS Post-transplant courses of A as receiving kidney allograft...

In anchor modeling, each speaker utterance is represented as a fixed-length location vector in the space of reference speakers by scoring against a set of anchor models. SVMbased speaker verification systems using the anchor location representation have been studied in previously reported work with promising results. In this paper, linear combination weights in reference speaker weighting (RSW)...

A computational study of the occurrence of rarefaction shock-wave (RSW) in a dense gas shock-tube is presented. The approach is based on the characterization of experimental variability and uncertainties in the thermodynamic properties of the fluid to investigate the realizability and reproducibility of a RSW in the FAST shock-tube at Delft University of Technology. The weakness of the RSW make...

Various standards organizations have considered signaling for voice and video over IP from different approaches. There are currently more than one standard for signaling and control of Internet telephone calls. Some of them, which widely used are RSW control protocol and the IETF Session Initiation Protocol (SIP). Both protocols provide comparable functionality using different mechanisms and pr...