OBJECTIVE To determine women's responses to cervical interrogation by fluorescent and reflective spectroscopy (FRS). MATERIALS AND METHODS A convenience sample of women scheduled for a colposcopic examination was interrogated by a cervical FRS system. Thereafter, women completed a 24-item questionnaire that assessed their responses to the spectroscopic test. Likert-scale responses were compar...

OBJECTIVES The lung-protective strategy employs positive end-expiratory pressure to keep open otherwise collapsed lung regions (anatomical recruitment). Improvement in venous admixture with positive end-expiratory pressure indicates functional recruitment to better gas exchange, which is not necessarily related to anatomical recruitment, because of possible global/regional perfusion modificatio...

We evaluated a new EMIT#{174} II monoclonal amphetamine! methamphetamine assay for screening human urine by comparing itwith the EMIT#{174} d.a.u. monoclonal amphetamine/methamphetamine assay and a fluorescence polarization assay. The EMIT II assay has a cutoff of 1 mg!L d-methamphetamine. The EMIT II and EMIT d.a.u. assays were run on a BM/Hitachi 704 analyzer; for the fluorescence polarizatio...

This paper presents a preliminary experimental study of the performance of basic sparse matrix computations on the CM-200 and the CM-5. We concentrate on examining various ways of performing general sparse matrix-vector operations and the basic primitives on which these are based. We compare various data structures for storing sparse matrices and their corresponding matrix – vector operations. ...

The transition to ICD-10-CM/PCS has expanded educational opportunities for educators and trainers who are taking on the responsibility of training coders on the new system. Coding education currently faces multiple challenges in the areas of how to train the new workforce, what might be the most efficient method of providing that training, how much retraining of the current workforce with ICD-9...

deficit irrigation is an essential optimization method for water consumption in irrigated lands. in order to investigate the effects of deficit irrigation on growth, yield and quality traits of two tomato (lycopersicon esculentum mill.) cultivars a factorial layout based on randomized complete block design with three replications was conducted in agricultural research station of miandoab during...

Mastitis is a serious production-limiting disease, with effects on milk yield, milk quality, and conception rate, and an increase in the risk of mortality and culling. The objective of this study was 2-fold: (1) to develop an economic optimization model that incorporates all the different types of pathogens that cause clinical mastitis (CM) categorized into 8 classes of culture results, and acc...