BACKGROUND The purpose of this study is to determine the usefulness of exercise treadmill testing (ETT) among asymptomatic persons in predicting coronary heart disease (CHD) events over and above the Framingham CHD risk score. METHODS AND RESULTS Subjects included 3043 members of the Framingham Heart Study offspring cohort without CHD (1431 men and 1612 women; age, 45+/-9 years) who underwent...

We propose techniques for guaranteeing schedulability including RTOS runtime overhead. In the techniques, we introduce two servers with planned capacity: periodic management server for invoking periodic tasks and aperiodic management server for aperiodic events such as task completion. Then, we provide the schedulability test considering the servers’ utilization. In addition, we show techniques...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to assess the early postoperative pulmonary function and arterial blood gases in patients who have undergone open versus laparoscopic nephrectomy. MATERIALS AND METHODS Forty patients were randomly assigned to undergo laparoscopic (LN, n=20) or open nephrectomy (ON, n=20). Pulmonary function tests including forced expiratory volume in 1 second (FEV1), forc...

BACKGROUND Motor imagery (MI) capacity may be altered following stroke. MI is evaluated by measuring temporal congruence between the timed performance of an imagined and an executed task. Temporal congruence between imagined and physical gait-related activities has not been evaluated following stroke. Moreover, the effect of cognitive dysfunction on temporal congruence is not known. OBJECTIVE...

Ammonium removal from aqueous solution by a natural ion-exchange resin was investigated by considering the factors affecting the ammonium-exchange capacity including the zeolites’ particle size, the loading flow rates and the impact of a number of regenerations upon the ion-exchange capacity. The resin column was exhausted by downflow at 10, 25, 50 and 75 bed volume (BV)/h, until effluent ammon...

BACKGROUND The first step in the diagnosis of diabetic nephropathy is to measure albumin in a spot urine sample. The aim of this study was to assess the accuracy of urinary albumin concentration (UAC), urinary albumin-to-creatinine ratio (UACR), and the Micral-Test II in a random urine specimen (RUS) for microalbuminuria screening in diabetes mellitus. METHODS Two hundred and seventy-eight pa...

This paper presents the results of a research on influence sisal fibers self-healing capacity slag-cement UHPFRC reinforced with steel fibers. In order to evaluate composite healing capacity, specimens were submitted pre-cracking by tensile test and then 3 months wetting drying cycles treatment. Treated resubmitted evaluated Optical Electronic microscopy CT Scan. Results indicate that fiber wor...