Accurate dry weight assessment is difficult in pediatric hemodialysis patients but is essential to prevent chronic fluid overload, hypertension, and cardiovascular morbidity. A noninvasive monitoring (NIVM) of hematocrit-guided ultrafiltration algorithm was studied prospectively in 20 pediatric hemodialysis patients. The algorithm targeted the first 50% of total goal ultrafiltration to be remov...

The magnetic field (MF) is considered as a biophysical treatment to change the growth and development parameters. Current research was carried out to evaluate the effect of different intensities of MF (0, 45, 60, 70 and 75 mT) on seed germination and some morphologic and physiologic parameters of Rudbeckia hirta L. in dry and humid conditions for 30 min. Results showed that the MF trea...

Mammillary fistula (MF), or Zuska’s disease, is a recognized and well-documented clinical entity. Among the many articles on MF, none makes a comment on, much less a survey of, extramammary physical findings, although authors from Zuska onward have noted the similarity of MF to anal fistula in presentation and treatment. In the cases presented here, we noted hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) lesion...

a microporous bisphenol a diglycidyl ether (dgeba) epoxified-polyethersulfone (pes) blend membrane (epes membrane) was prepared through dry-wet phase inversion. this study attempts to correlate the changes in membrane physical and chemical properties when the epes membranes were exposed to different durations of dry-phase inversion, towards the separation efficiency of carcinogen chromium (vi)....

BACKGROUND A clinical trial of mometasone furoate/formoterol fumarate (MF/F) administered via a metered-dose inhaler in subjects with moderate to very severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) investigated the efficacy and safety of a fixed-dose combination of MF/F. METHODS This multicenter, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial had a 26-week treatment period and a 26-week safety e...

OBJECTIVE To determine the clinicopathologic features and the disease course of patients with follicular mycosis fungoides (MF). DESIGN A multicenter, 14-year, retrospective cohort analysis. SETTING Dutch Cutaneous Lymphoma Group. PATIENTS Fifty-one patients with the clinicopathologic features of follicular MF with (n = 49) or without (n = 2) associated follicular mucinosis. Follow-up dat...

BACKGROUND The clinicopathological characteristics and the prognostic significance of multifocal (MF) and multicentric (MC) breast cancers are not well established. PATIENTS AND METHODS MF and MC were defined as more than one lesion in the same quadrant or in separate quadrants, respectively. The Kaplan-Meier product limit was used to calculate recurrence-free survival (RFS), breast cancer-sp...

Managing patients with myelofibrosis (MF), either those with primary MF or those whose MF has evolved from antecedent polycythemia vera or essential thrombocythemia, presents many challenges to the hematologist. MF patients have a range of debilitating disease manifestations (eg, massive splenomegaly, cytopenias, constitutional symptoms, and transformation to a treatment-refractory blast phase)...

The integrity of the peritoneal membrane in peritoneal dialysis (PD) is of major importance for adequate dialysis and fluid balance. However, alterations in peritoneal fluid transport, such as ultrafiltration failure, often develop during long-term PD. To investigate peritoneal solute and fluid transport and to analyze the influence of treatment time, peritonitis incidence, and PD modality (con...

1 Notation and Definitions 2 2 MF Models 2 3 Latent Factors 3 3.1 L2 regularization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 3.2 Baseline Predictors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 4 SVD++ [4] 6 5 Joint Factorization (JF) Models 7 5.1 Brian’s Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 5.2 Eliminating...