The Salford Lung Study (SLS) of patients with asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a practical, community-based, randomized, open-label pragmatic study on the efficacy and safety of the once-daily dry powder inhaler that combines the inhaled corticosteroid fluticasone furoate (FF) with the long-acting beta2 agonist vilanterol (VI). The asthma component of the SLS is not ye...

BACKGROUND This placebo-controlled study assessed the effects of the once-daily inhaled corticosteroid (ICS) fluticasone furoate (FF) and long-acting beta(2) -agonist (LABA) vilanterol (VI) on early and late asthmatic responses (EAR/LAR) and airway hyper-responsiveness (AHR). METHODS Patients (n = 27) were randomized to FF (100 μg), VI (25 μg), FF/VI (100/25 μg), and placebo for 21 days (four...

Four pigeons were given baseline training under a multiple VI 60-sec/VI SO-sec schedule of food reinforcement. One component was correlated with a red key light to which a white light was added in order to signal the availability of a reinforcer. Under the other component, the key light was green at all times. This procedure resulted in few responses under the signaled component, except when th...

We propose a novel deformable model with statistical and deterministic components for LV segmentation in cardiac magnetic resonance (MR) cine images. The statistical deformable component learns a global reference model of the LV using Principal Component Analysis (PCA) while the deterministic deformable component consists of a finite-element deformable surface superimposed on the reference mode...

Vanadium (III) gives a greenish- yellow complex with anthranilic acid in presence of pyridine. The complex is extractable with chloroform and is used for photometric determination of vanadium by measuring the absorbance at 390 nm against a reagent blank. Beer's Law holds good in the range of 1-20 pg V/ml. Moderate amounts of Pb (II) , Ca (II) , Sr (II) , Ba (II) , Cd (II) , Mg (II) , Mn (II...

The measurement of absorption over short distances in the local interstellar medium (LISM) provides an excellent opportunity to study the properties of O VI absorption and its kinematic relationship to absorption by tracers of cool and warm gas. We report on the properties of LISM O VI absorption observed with 20 km s −1 resolution Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) observations of 3...

In this current study a generalized super-efficiency model is first proposed for ranking extreme efficient decision making units (DMUs) in stochastic data envelopment analysis (DEA) and then, a deterministic (crisp) equivalent form of the stochastic generalized super-efficiency model is presented. It is shown that this deterministic model can be converted to a quadratic programming model. So fa...