Background and Purpose The cause of cerebral and peripheral embolism remains undetermined in a significant number of patients. An atherosclerotic thoracic aorta has thus far been considered to be an uncommon one. Methods To define the potential role of the ascending thoracic aorta as an embolic source, intraoperative ultrasonic aortic imaging was performed in 1200 of 1334 consecutive patients a...

The own-wage elasticity of labor demand is a key parameter in empirical research and policy analysis. However, despite extensive research, estimates of labor demand elasticities are subject to considerable heterogeneity. In this paper, we explore various dimensions of this heterogeneity by means of a comprehensive meta-regression analysis, building on information from 151 different studies cont...

BACKGROUND Few studies have investigated the clinical characteristics of patients with glottic cancer without hoarseness. METHODS This retrospective clinical study investigated 371 patients with glottic cancer. RESULTS Thirty-two of the 371 patients (8.6%) with glottic cancer first presented to hospitals with complaints other than hoarseness. Although proportions of stage I and T1 disease w...

A capillary gas chromatographic method with mass spectrometric detection for the determination of pipecolic acid in urine and plasma (or serum) has been developed. Using a quantification based on stable isotope dilution mass fragmentography the concentration of pipecolic acid was determined in urines of 34 healthy children and 8 patients with Zellweger's syndrome. The urinary pipecolic acid exc...

In this paper, we present machine learning approach for the classification indirect anaphora in Hindi corpus. The direct anaphora is able to find the noun phrase antecedent within a sentence or across few sentences. On the other hand indirect anaphora does not have explicit referent in the discourse. We suggest looking for certain patterns following the indirect anaphor and marking demonstrativ...

Resilientti ruokajärjestelmä kykenee turvaamaan jatkuvasti ravitsemuksen siitä riippuvaisille ihmisille. Tarkastelemme tutkimuksessamme Suomen ruokajärjestelmän kehitysdynamiikkaa resilienssin näkökulmasta aikavälillä 1334–2022. Tunnistimme analyysissä kuusi regiimiä: laajentumisregiimi, edistysregiimi, karjatalousregiimi, esimoderni regiimi, modernisaatioregiimi ja globalisaatioregiimi. Regiim...