Background: Published epidemiological evidence of the association between circulating lipids and lipoproteins and breast cancer (BC) in premenopausal and/or postmenopausal women remains controversial. A metaanalysis was therefore designed to estimate a more accurate association. Methods: Systematic literature retrieval was performed on the databases of Web of Science, PubMed and Cochrane librar...

We investigate the complex bifurcation scenarios occurring in the dynamic response of a piecewise-linear impact oscillator with drift, which is able to describe qualitatively the behaviour of impact drilling systems. This system has been extensively studied by numerical and analytical methods in the past, but its intricate bifurcation structure has largely remained unknown. For the bifurcation ...

BACKGROUND/AIMS The aim of this study was to assess the incidence of sympathetic ophthalmia following evisceration for penetrating eye injuries and to assess whether evisceration is safe in this setting. METHODS Data were obtained retrospectively from patients who were admitted to a tertiary hospital following penetrating ocular trauma over a 10-year period. RESULTS A total of 1392 patients...

OBJECTIVE To assess the characteristics and incidence of medical litigation in China and the potential usefulness of the records of such litigation as an indicator of health-care quality. METHODS We investigated 13 620 cases of medical malpractice litigation that ended between 2010 and 2015 and were reported to China's Supreme Court. We categorized each case according to location of the court...

UNLABELLED Warp2D is a novel time alignment approach, which uses the overlapping peak volume of the reference and sample peak lists to correct misleading peak shifts. Here, we present an easy-to-use web interface for high-throughput Warp2D batch processing time alignment service using the Dutch Life Science Grid, reducing processing time from days to hours. This service provides the warping fun...

A computational kernel of particular importance for many scientific applications is the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) of multi-dimensional data. A fundamental challenge is the design and implementation of such parallel numerical algorithms to utilise efficiently thousands of nodes. The BlueGene/L is a massively parallel high performance computer organised as a three-dimensional torus of compute ...

Objectives. This study was designed (1) to estimate the prevalence of successful aging among nonagenarians based on six different models and (2) to investigate whether successful aging is associated with socio-demographic factors. Methods. A mailed survey was conducted with people aged 90+ in Tampere in 2010. Responses were received from 1283 people. The prevalence of successful aging was measu...

Arap ve Fars edebiyatlarında XII. asırdan itibaren örnekleri verilmeye başlanan acâ’ibü’l-mahlûkâtlar, acayip görülmemiş canlılar, coğrafi yerler, bitkiler tabiatüstü çeşitli varlıklar hakkında bilgiler veren “acâ’ibü’l-büldân”, “acâ’ibü’l-Hind”, “acâ’ibü’l-mahlûkât” gibi isimlerle kaleme alınan bir türdür. Ebû Ca’fer Muhammed b. el-Hasen Alî et-Tûsî (ö. 460/1067), Hâmid el-Gırnâtî’nin 565/1169...

Purpose: Fiber-reinforced composites (FRCs) have received considerable attention, owing to their potential use in dental prostheses or bone fracture fixation applications. The aim of this systematic review was analyze and report the biological properties FRCs reported existing literature. Study selections: A search four databases (PubMed/MEDLINE, Scopus, Web Science, Cochrane library) performed...