Churg-Strauss syndrome (CSS) is characterized by the presence of asthma, eosinophilia, and small-vessel vasculitis with granuloma. It is a distinct entity, as determined from all classifications of systemic vasculitis. The poor prognostic factors in CSS are renal insufficiency, cardiomyopathy, severe gastrointestinal (GI) tract, and central nervous systems (CNS) involvement. The initial managem...

Objective The efficacy of chlorhexidine- and silver sulfadiazine-coated central venous catheters (CSS-CVC) against catheter-related infection remains controversial. We hypothesized that the loss of silver nanoparticles may reduce the antibacterial efficacy of CSS-CVCs and that this loss could be due to the frictional force between the surface of the CVC and the bloodstream. The objective of thi...

BACKGROUND Churg-Strauss syndrome (CSS) is a multisystem disorder characterized by asthma, prominent peripheral blood eosinophilia, and vasculitis signs. CASE SUMMARY Here we report a case of CSS presenting with acute myocarditis and heart failure and review the literature on CSS with cardiac involvement. A 59-year-old man with general fatigue, numbness of limbs, and a 2-year history of asthm...

This paper defines a generalized column subset selection problem which is concerned with the selection of a few columns from a source matrix A that best approximate the span of a target matrix B. The paper then proposes a fast greedy algorithm for solving this problem and draws connections to different problems that can be efficiently solved using the proposed algorithm. 1 Generalized Column Su...

In this work, a new and effective algorithm called hybrid teaching–learning-based optimization (TLBO) charged system search (CSS) algorithms (HTC) are proposed to solve engineering mathematical problems. The CSS is inspired by Coulomb Gauss’s electrostatic laws of physics as well the Newtonian mechanic motion. TLBO interaction between teacher student in classroom. Usually, gets trapped local op...

Internet help seeking behaviors are increasingly common. Despite the positives associated with technology, cyberchondria, or the process of increased anxiety in response to internet medical information seeking, is on the rise. The Cyberchondria Severity Scale (CSS) was recently developed to provide a valid measure of cyberchondria across multiple dimensions. The current study sought to extend p...

Due to its anti-jamming capability, chirp spread spectrum (CSS) technique has attracted much attention in the area of wireless communications. However, there has been little rigorous analysis for the anti-jamming performance of CSS-based communication systems. In this paper, we present analytic results on the anti-jamming performance of a CSS-based system: BER expressions are derived for a CSS-...

Chemosensory systems (CSS) are complex regulatory pathways capable of perceiving external signals and translating them into different cellular behaviors such as motility and development. In the δ-proteobacterium Myxococcus xanthus, chemosensing allows groups of cells to orient themselves and aggregate into specialized multicellular biofilms termed fruiting bodies. M. xanthus contains eight pred...

We present a new technique to prove termination of term rewrite systems, or more precise, constructor systems (CSs). In earlier work we introduced a transformation of well-moded logic programs into CSs, such that termination of the logic program follows from termination of the obtained CS. The technique to prove termination of CSs described in this paper is in particular suitable for, but not l...