STUDY OBJECTIVE To compare the effects of empiric vancomycin dosing regimens on attainment of optimal target trough concentrations in obese (body mass index [BMI] 30-40 kg/m(2) ) and extremely obese (BMI ≥ 40 kg/m(2) ) patients. DESIGN Retrospective cohort study. DATA SOURCE National Veterans Affairs standardized databases. PATIENTS A total of 263 obese and 71 extremely obese (actual body...

Tight junction protein gene expression patterns and changes in transcript 2" abundance during development of model fish gill epithelia 3" 4" 5" Dennis Kolosov*, Helen Chasiotis and Scott P. Kelly. 6" 7" Department of Biology, York University, Toronto, ON, M3J 1P3 Canada 8" 9" 10" *Corresponding Author: 11" 12" Dennis Kolosov 13" Department of Biology 14" York University 15" 4700 Keele St 16" To...

571 Received: October 9, 2008. Accepted: December 31, 2008. Corresponding author: Hong-Seuk Yang, M.D., Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Asan Medical Center, 388-1, Pungnap-2dong, Songpa-gu, Seoul 138-736, Korea. Tel: 82-23010-3865, Fax: 82-2-470-1363, E-mail: [email protected] Copyright c Korean Society of Anesthesiologists, 2009 Accele...

From the Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine; the Department of Medicine, Methodist Hospital; and the Renal Section, Veterans Affairs Medical Center — all in Houston (H.J.A.); and the Department of Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, and the Division of Nephrology, Caritas St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center — both in Boston (N.E.M.). Address reprint requests to Dr. Madias ...

IN PNEUMOCOCCAL PNEUMONIA Esther Calbo, MD, Montserrat Alsina, MD, Mónica Rodríguez-Carballeira, PhD, Josep Lite, MD, 4 and Javier Garau, PhD. Services of Internal Medicine, Immunology and Microbiology, and the Infectious Diseases Unit, Hospital Mútua de Terrassa, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain. ALL CORRESPONDENCE Esther Calbo, MD; Infectious Disease Unit. Service of Internal Medicine...

P a t i e n t s 736 patients (mean age 59 y, 53% women) who had symptomatic PDVT or pulmonary embolism, or both, or symptomatic CDVT confirmed by objective diagnostic tests. Exclusion criteria included pregnancy, breastfeeding, vena cava filter implantation, surgical thrombectomy, free-floating thrombus in the inferior vena cava, active cancer or malignant hematologic disease, or a previous ven...

Derivatives (or gradients) are important for both sensitivity analysis and optimization, and in simulation models, these can often be estimated efficiently using various methods other than brute-force finite differences. This article briefly summarizes the main approaches and discusses areas in which the approaches can most fruitfully be applied: queueing, inventory, and finance. In finance, th...

Deep learning convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are an emerging technology that provide opportunity to increase agricultural efficiency through remote sensing and automatic inferencing of field conditions. This paper examined the novel use CNNs identify two weeds, hair fescue sheep sorrel, in images wild blueberry fields. Commercial herbicide sprayers a uniform application agrochemicals mana...

فاصله بین سقوط ایلخانان (736 ق) تا روی کار آمدن صفویان (907 ق) از پرآشوب­ترین و آشفته­ترین دوره­های تاریخ ایران است که عرصه را برای نضج و قدرت­گیری حکومت­های مختلفی در گوشه و کنار ایران فراهم آورد. جغرافیای سیاسی قبایل کُرد در غرب و شمال غرب که صحنه قدرت­نمایی آل جلایر، تیموریان، قراقویونلوها و آق قویونلوها بود از جمله حوزه­های موردتوجه و فعالیت حکومت­های مورد اشاره بود. پژوهش حاضر درصدد پژوهش د...