BACKGROUND Musculoskeletal disorders (MSD) are the major cause of morbidity throughout the world, having a substantial influence on quality of life (QOL). We studied QOL ascertained by limitations of activities of daily living, impact on family and social relationships, and sleep disturbances among patients with MSD. AIM Ascertain QOL in MSD. MATERIALS AND METHODS A cross-sectional study am...

BACKGROUND The importance of Cryptosporidium as a pediatric enteropathogen in developing countries is recognized. METHODS Data from the Global Enteric Multicenter Study (GEMS), a 3-year, 7-site, case-control study of moderate-to-severe diarrhea (MSD) and GEMS-1A (1-year study of MSD and less-severe diarrhea [LSD]) were analyzed. Stools from 12,110 MSD and 3,174 LSD cases among children aged <...

A Collaborative Filtering was successfully implemented using the computer programming language Java to produce recommendations between users such that only similar users were considered. Both Mean Squared Difference (MSD) and Pearson Correlation Coefficient (PCC) were used and evaluations carried out on each. The metric which performed best on the u.data file was PCC with L = 0. Conversely, the...

A technique for characterizing the particle interaction potential of a Coulomb crystal is developed. The mean-square displacement (MSD) is measured, showing both caged- and superdiffusive-particle motions. By subtracting the center of mass of neighboring particles in computing MSD, only short-wavelength particle motions are retained. This yields the lattice Einstein frequency, which contains in...

PURPOSE To relate self-reported levels of musculoskeletal disorder (MSD) pain and patterns of clinical care among members of the California Dental Hygienists' Association (CDHA), using a web-based survey. METHODS The 24-item survey consisted of questions on patterns of clinical care, health habits, experience with MSD pain and demographic information. Recruitment information, including survey...

For 318 patients in 8 different Belgian hospitals, the entire skin-dose distribution was mapped using a grid of 70 thermoluminescence dosimeters per patient, allowing an accurate determination of the maximum skin dose (MSD). Dose-area product (DAP) values, exposure parameters and geometry, together with procedure, patient and cardiologist characteristics, were also registered. Procedures were d...

In 2007, the State of Missouri and the United States Environmental Protection Agency, along with the Missouri Coalition for the Environment, filed a lawsuit against the Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District (MSD) regarding overflows. In August 2011, the Department of Justice filed a consent decree requiring MSD to spend a minimum $4.7 billion over the next 23 years to address the issue of overf...

BACKGROUND Interleukin-6 (IL-6) contributes to numerous inflammatory, metabolic, and physiologic pathways of disease. We evaluated four IL-6 immunoassays in order to identify a reliable assay for studies of metabolic and physical function. Serial plasma samples from intravenous glucose tolerance tests (IVGTTs), with expected rises in IL-6 concentrations, were used to test the face validity of t...

We used a novel NF-08-TM transplant protocol based on intravenous busulfan, cyclophosphamide, fludarabine, and thiotepa in 82 consecutive patients with β-thalassemia major (TM), including 52 with allogeneic peripheral blood stem cell transplantation (PBSCT) from unrelated donors (UDs) with well-matched human leukocyte antigens and 30 with hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) from matc...