BACKGROUND The Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) recommends triple therapy (long-acting muscarinic receptor antagonists, long-acting beta-2 agonists, and inhaled corticosteroids) for patients with only the most severe COPD. Data on the proportion of COPD patients on triple therapy and their characteristics are sparse and dated. Objective 1 of this study was to estima...

In this paper, we take a new look at the representation theory of Lie triple systems. We consider both ordinary Lie triple systems and restricted Lie triple systems in the sense of Hodge (2001). In a final section, we begin a study of the cohomology of Lie triple systems.

Low encoding/decoding complexity is essential for practical storage systems. This paper presents a new Maximum Distance Separable (MDS) array codes, called Triple-Star, for tolerating triple disk failures in Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks (RAID) architecture. Triple-Star is an extension of the double-erasure-correcting Rotarycode and a modification of the generalized triple-erasure-corre...

Triple Modular Redundancy is widely used in dependable systems design to ensure high reliability against soft errors. Conventional TMR is effective in protecting sequential circuits but can’t mask soft errors in combinational circuits. A new redundancy technique called the Space-Time Triple Modular Redundancy is presented in this paper, which improves the soft error tolerance of the combination...

OBJECTIVE Several trials suggest that triple therapy (methotrexate, sulfasalazine, and hydroxychloroquine) and biologic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) have similar efficacy in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). This study was undertaken to investigate intensification to triple therapy after initial nonbiologic prescription among patients with RA. METHODS The use of tripl...

Stephenson (1908a, b) showed that it is possible to stabilize a single rigid pendulum in its inverted, or upside-down, equilibrium position by subjecting the pivot to small vertical oscillations of suitably high frequency. He confirmed his theoretical predictions by a practical demonstration of the phenomenon. While this is a well-known curiosity of classical mechanics it does not seem to be ge...