OBJECTIVE To simulate the outcomes of alternative strategies for screening the U.S. population 45-74 years of age for type 2 diabetes. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS We simulated screening with random plasma glucose (RPG) and cut points of 100, 130, and 160 mg/dl and a multivariate equation including RPG and other variables. Over 15 years, we simulated screening at intervals of 1, 3, and 5 years...

Limited global information in dc microgrids with distributed cooperative control makes them vulnerable to cyber attacks, which can lead their destabilization and shut down. Here, we discuss a novel false data injection attack (FDIA) model, termed as the concurrent attack, that compromise local communicated estimated voltages simultaneously. We formalize such an could be disguised conventional F...

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normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa microsoftinternetexplorer4 vascular neoplasms, other than benign are characterized as intermediate or malignant. they are often enshrouded in controversy, because the same neoplasm could show variability in biologic behavior that may not be correlated with microscopic features. the intermediate grade vascular neoplasm is named as epithelioid hemangi...

BACKGROUND The prognoses of patients with false-negative test results by myocardial single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) and by stress echocardiography are known to be different; the prognosis with false-negative SPECT is better in suspected and proven coronary artery disease (CAD). METHODS AND RESULTS Three strategies by which to diagnose CAD were compared for their cost-effect...

OBJECTIVES False aneurysm of the right ventricular outflow tract (RVOT) is one of complications after surgery of congenital heart disease. It is controversial about materials for reconstruction of RVOT in this setting, when associated with pulmonary hypertension or bacterial infection. Pulmonary homograft seems to be the first choice, but its availability is extremely limited in Japan. METHOD...

We identify a distinctive class of combinatorial auction protocols called a Price-oriented, Rationing-free (PORF) protocol, which can be used as a guideline for developing strategy/false-name proof protocols. A PORF protocol is automatically guaranteed to be strategy-proof, i.e., for each agent, declaring its true evaluation values is an optimal strategy regardless of the declarations of other ...