Objectives. Both results of the odor identification and cardiac (123)I-metaiodobenzylguanidine accumulation have been investigated for their potential to enhance the detection of pathogenesis resembling that of Lewy body-related α-synucleinopathies in patients clinically diagnosed as having idiopathic REM sleep behavior disorder. Methods. We performed both the Odor Stick Identification Test for...

The European Respiratory Society COPD audit was a cross-sectional, multicentre study that analysed outcomes for COPD patients admitted to hospital with an exacerbation across Europe. We present the data on patients admitted to 11 Irish hospitals that participated in the audit. Among 237 patients (123 Male), the median age was 71 years and 79 (33%) patients were current smokers. 82 (35%) patient...

To study the size effect on the properties of copper, tensile tests were performed with pure copper foil (thickness range from 25 μm to 300 μm) by cold rolling. A pronounced size effect was observed at a thickness of 76 μm. The results showed that ultimate strength increased as sample thickness decreased from 300 μm to 100 μm, however, this was decreased as the thickness changed from 76 μm to 2...

Let d3(n, k) be the maximum possible minimum Hamming distance of a ternary [n, k, d; 3]-code for given values of n and k. It is proved that d3(44, 6) = 27, d3(76, 6) = 48, d3(94, 6) = 60, d3(124, 6) = 81, d3(130, 6) = 84, d3(134, 6) = 87, d3(138, 6) = 90, d3(148, 6) = 96, d3(152, 6) = 99, d3(156, 6) = 102, d3(164, 6) = 108, d3(170, 6) = 111, d3(179, 6) = 117, d3(188, 6) = 123, d3(206, 6) = 135,...

The migration of a rigid sphere in a two-dimensional unidirectional shear flow of a second-order fluid was considered by Ho & Leal (1976). It was found that the sphere would migrate in the direction of decreasing absolute shear rate. The present paper extends the previous results to a general quadratic flow, and also considers the case of a spherical drop.

Microscopy is very important in scientific research, particularly in the development of new materials for several engineering applications including medicine. The recently developed high-Tc superconducting materials and their performance at higher magnetic fields and higher temperatures are crucial important for real applications. The performance properties are mainly controlled by nanostructur...