BACKGROUND Before estimating smoothed percentiles of weight-for-height and BMI-for-age to construct the WHO growth charts, WHO excluded observations that were considered to represent unhealthy weights for height. OBJECTIVE The objective was to estimate the effects of similar data trimming on empirical percentiles from the CDC growth-chart data set relative to the smoothed WHO percentiles for ...

The superconducting band-pass filter has small insertion loss and excellent out-of-band rejection properties. It has been put to practical use in a number of applications. However, in order to expand its range of application, a tuning technique that can restore the filter characteristics is needed. We propose an automatic tuning system using a trimming library and checked the feasibility of the...

The synthetic phenyl-substituted analog of prostaglandin F2 alpha (PGF2), latanoprost, is an intraocular pressurelowering drug for use in patients with primary open-angle glaucoma and ocular hypertension. Hypertrichosis of the eyelashes is a common reported adverse effect of this drug and of prostaglandin analogs in general since their introduction in the late 1990s.1 Here we present a case of ...

A 2-year experiment on the effect of claw trimming on hoof health was performed in 77 Swedish dairy herds (3444 dairy cattle) selected on herd size, breed composition and membership in the official milk-recording scheme. In the autumn, cows within each herd were blocked according to breed, parity and stage of lactation and allocated to two treatments: autumn trimming (AT) or no autumn trimming ...

A key aspect of understanding eukaryotic gene regulation will be the identification and analysis of proteins that bind mRNAs and control their function. Recently, a complex of seven Lsm proteins and the Pat1p have been shown to interact with yeast mRNAs and promote mRNA decapping. In this study we present several observations to indicate that the LsmI/Pat1 complex has a second distinct function...

Placement of a self-expanding metal stent (SEMS) is an effective method for palliation of a malignant biliary obstruction. However, metal stents can cause various complications, including stent migration. Distally migrated metal stents, particularly covered SEMS, can be removed successfully in most cases. Stent trimming using argon plasma coagulation may be helpful in difficult cases despite co...

The use of trimming procedures constitutes a natural approach to robustifying statistical methods. This is the case of goodness-of-fit tests based on a distance, which can be modified by choosing trimmed versions of the distributions minimizing that distance. In this paper we consider the L2-Wasserstein distance and introduce the trimming methodology for assessing when a data sample can be cons...

Claw trimming every four to six months has become a routine procedure for the majority of high yielding housed dairy cows. Various methods have been described, but the Dutch Five Step method (Toussaint Raven 1985) is probably the most widely used approach around the world and has been the basis for most research. Despite being the most commonly used protocol internationally, the Dutch Five Step...

Aminopeptidases in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) can cleave antigenic peptides and in so doing either create or destroy MHC class I-presented epitopes. However, the specificity of this trimming process overall and of the major ER aminopeptidase ERAP1 in particular is not well understood. This issue is important because peptide trimming influences the magnitude and specificity of CD8 T cell res...

This paper describes a new program simplification technique called program trimming that aims to improve the scalability and precision of safety checking tools. Given a program P, program trimming generates a new program P ′ such that P and P ′ are equi-safe (i.e., P ′ has a bug if and only if P has a bug), but P ′ has fewer execution paths than P. Since many program analyzers are sensitive to ...