Few studies have examined the relationship between life events, suicide attempts, and personality disorders (PDs), in spite of the strong associations between PDs and suicidal behavior, and the poor coping strategies often exhibited by these individuals. The authors examined whether participants with PDs who attempted suicide during the first 3 years of a prospective, longitudinal study were mo...

ion levels to existing OSD commands. In PDS, both OSD and its HL API are executed in a separate process from the upper layers. The XAM layer communicates with the HL-OSD interface via RPC. XAM session execution model A XAM storage system contains one or more XSystems, where each XSystem is a logical container of XSet records. An XSet, the basic artifact in XAM, is a data Table 1 Preservation Da...

BACKGROUND Few studies compared radiographic and clinical outcomes between posterior dynamic stabilization (PDS) and posterior lumbar intervertebral fusion (PLIF) in treating degenerative disc disease (DDD). METHODS A total of 176 consecutive patients who underwent posterior instrumented spinal surgery for degenerative disc disease between January 2007 and January 2009 were prospectively divi...

Assesment of health related quality of life (HRQL) is increasingly recognized as an important part of the patient care in asthma. We aimed to evaluate the effect of personality disorders (PDs) on HRQL and the severity of disease in asthmatic patients. Ninety seven consecutive patients with asthma and ninety healthy controls were included. All patients completed a Short Form-36 health survey (SF...

This work demonstrates the high-temperature operation of metal–semiconductor–metal (MSM) photodetectors (PDs) up to 450 ◦C using lightly Al-doped epitaxial 4H–SiC thin films. The responsivity of the PDs under 325-nm illumination is 0.0305 A/W at 20-V bias at room temperature. The photocurrentto-dark-current ratio of the SiC MSM PDs is as high as 1.3 × 10 at 25 ◦C and is 0.62 at 450 ◦C. The rise...

In the past decades, variety morphologies and doping zinc oxide (ZnO) nanomaterials have attracted significant attention due to its outstanding properties for photodetectors (PDs). This perspective article provides state of recent advancements regarding ZnO-based PDs discusses future directions optoelectronic devices. The can provide a useful reference those who are interested in PDs.

INTRODUCTION There is currently no standard forensic medicine training program for emergency medicine residents. In the advent of sexual assault nurse examiner (SANE) programs aimed at improving the quality of care for sexual assault victims, it is also unclear how these programs impact emergency medicine (EM) resident forensic medicine training. The purpose of this study was to gather informat...

OBJECTIVE The aim of the present study was to investigate the surgical complexity, the postoperative morbidity, and the survival of the women after primary debulking surgery (PDS) and neoadjuvant chemotherapy followed by interval debulking surgery (NACT-IDS) for advanced epithelial ovarian cancer. MATERIALS AND METHODS We consecutively included all patients who underwent debulking surgery at ...

UNLABELLED Introduction Online educational resources (OERs) are increasingly available for emergency medicine (EM) education. This study describes and compares the use of free OERs by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (RCPSC) EM residents and program directors (PDs) and investigates the relationship between the use of OERs and peer-reviewed literature. METHODS A bilingual...