PURPOSE This was a cross sectional descriptive study to introduce the Infants Coma Scale (ICS), describe mental status of high risk infants using ICS and explore the relationships between ICS and clinical variables in infants hospitalized in a neonatal intensive care unit of a university hospital in Korea. METHODS After ICS was developed and tested by the authors, a research nurse evaluated t...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE The overprescription of inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) in the current Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) group A and B patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is not uncommon in clinical practice. The aim of this study was to explore the factors associated with the use of ICS in these patients. METHODS The Taiwan obstructiv...

Intermittent central suppression (ICS) is a repetitive suppression of central vision in non-strabismic/non-amblyopic individuals. Preliminary estimates have been made of the temporal and spatial characteristics of ICS. ICS has been implicated in reading problems. We examined 30 non-strabismic/amblyopic ICS patients in a private optometric practice. We video documented the suppressions, and late...

Counterfeiting and recycling of integrated circuits (ICs) have become major issues. it would be extremely difficult to distinguish recycled ICs from unused ICs. Used IC can act as a ticking time bomb and it is used for much critical application. An adversary can include additional die on top of the recycled die carrying a back-door attacker based and AF based sensors are used to identify the re...

This introduction to the R package ICS is a (slightly) modified version of Nordhausen, Oja, and Tyler (2008c), published in the Journal of Statistical Software. Invariant coordinate selection (ICS) has recently been introduced as a method for exploring multivariate data. It includes as a special case a method for recovering the unmixing matrix in independent components analysis (ICA). It also s...

Research aimed at securing the SCADA and ICS networks has taken off in the wake of Stuxnet. Unfortunately, it is difficult for researchers to fully capture the integration between cyber and physical components that is intrinsic to these systems. To enable researchers to perform network security experiments while taking into account the physical component of ICS networks, we propose the use of t...

Parents often overreport adherence to asthma treatment regimens making accurate assessment of medication adherence in clinical practice difficult. This study was conducted to compare two adherence assessment methods clinicians may choose from when assessing patient inhaled corticosteroid (ICS) adherence: parental report and dose counter measurements of metered-dose inhaler (MDI) actuation. Part...

Retrospective prescribing data were obtained from 46 general practice surgeries in NHS Scotland. Patients with asthma who were naïve to previous LABA therapy and initiated combination inhaler therapy in 2008-2009 were classified according to the ICS dose in their combination inhaler compared to the highest dose of ICS they received before initiation. Among the 685 patients (541 [79.0%] who had ...

The counterfeiting and recycling of integrated circuits (ICs) have become major issues in recent years, potentially impacting the security and reliability of electronic systems bound for military, financial, or other critical applications. With identical functionality and packaging, it would be extremely difficult to distinguish recycled ICs from unused ICs. In the existing Ring Oscillator (RO)...

PURPOSE Extrafine-particle inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) have greater small airway deposition than standard fine-particle ICS. We sought to compare asthma-related outcomes after patients initiated extrafine-particle ciclesonide or fine-particle ICS (fluticasone propionate or non-extrafine beclomethasone). METHODS This historical, matched cohort study included patients aged 12-60 years prescri...