BACKGROUND Accurate estimation of prognosis in multimorbid hospital patients could improve quality of care. This study aims to determine the relative importance and added value of a performance-based activities of daily living (ADL) measure with regard to mortality prediction. METHODS 200 inpatients, aged over 60 years, were recruited at the Department of General Internal Medicine at a tertia...

The accuracy of the vacuum saturation hypothesis is discussed using the examples of vacuum expectation values of four-quark operators and the parameter B, which determines the short-distance contribution to the K 0 − ¯ K 0 mixing. Some comments, related to a (relatively small) change of the updated result due to changes in the values of incorporated phenomenological parameters, are added.

Membranes of mammalian cells contain lysophosphatidic acid acyltransferase (LPAAT) activities that catalyze the acylation of sn-1-acyl lysophosphatidic acid (lysoPA) to form phosphatidic acid. As the biological roles and biochemical properties of the six known LPAAT isoforms have yet to be fully elucidated, we have characterized human LPAAT-beta activity using two different assays. In a membran...

Vital wheat gluten and lecithin (GL) (50:50, w/w) were dry blended in a coffee grinder and a 9.5% (w/v) aqueous slurry was jet-cooked (steam pressures of 65 psi/g inlet and 40 psi/g outlet) to disaggregate wheat gluten and facilitate better dispersion of the two components. The jet-cooked material was freeze-dried and stored at 0 8C for future use. The GL blend was added to pure food grade comm...

Abstract This paper proposes the use of an inverse class-E amplifier with a tunable parallel resonator at the output port in order to obtain a high power-added efficiency (PAE) and output power in a wide frequency range. The tunable resonator circuit has a constant Q factor in the operating frequency range, and since the circuit has a varactor diode, the inductor and capacitor values of the res...

Two type of adulterants i.e. soybean oil (SO) and buffalo depot fat (BDF) along with pure cow and buffalo milk fats, collected and prepared after every two months of interval for a complete one year, were analyzed for their fatty acid composition using gas liquid chromatography. Both the adulterants were added individually at 5, 10 and 15 percent levels (v/v) as well as in their combinations at...

Recently linear 0-1 programming methods have been successfully applied to the satissability problem of propositional logic. We present a preprocessing method that simpliies the linear 0-1 integer problem corresponding to a clausal satissability problem. Valid extended clauses, a generalization of classical clauses, are added to the problem as long as they dominate at least one extended clause o...