Metabolic syndrome, an etiological factor in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), is often present in hemodialysis patients. Little is known about the prevalence of, and factors associated with, liver fibrosis in hemodialysis populations. We used transient elastography (TE) to investigate these phenomena. 659 patients treated with chronic hemodialysis were enrolled. We excluded those with...

Data on individual daily feed intake, BW at 28-d intervals, and carcass composition were obtained on 1,212 crossbred steers. Within-animal regressions of cumulative feed intake and BW on linear and quadratic days on feed were used to quantify initial and ending BW, average daily observed feed intake (OFI), and ADG over a 120-d finishing period. Feed intake was predicted (PFI) with 3 biological ...

The Common Land Model (CLM), which results from a 3-yr joint effort among seven land modeling groups, has been coupled with the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Community Climate Model (CCM3). Two 15-yr simulations of CCM3 coupled with CLM and the NCAR Land Surface Model (LSM), respectively, are used to document the relative impact of CLM versus LSM on land surface climate. It is...

Fixation of embryonic chick cells (heart, neural retina, and limb bud) in the presence of lanthanum ions shows the presence of an electron-opaque layer, about 50 A thick, external to the cell membrane. This layer, designated LSM (for lanthanum-staining material), is not removable by trypsin, pronase, EDTA, DNase, alpha-amylase, neuraminidase, or N-acetyl-L-cysteine. However, phospholipase C, in...

Aims. To observe the rate of conversion from impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) to diabetes following lifestyle modification (LSM) or a combination of lifestyle and metformin compared to a control population with 18-month followup. Methods. Forty screening camps were organized, which 5000 people attended. Around 2300 persons filled the questionnaire and 1825 subjects were identified as high risk....

Least squares migration (LSM) is applied to 3-D synthetic data in order to test the feasibility of removing the ”recording footprint” noise from migrated sections. The LSM algorithm is implemented with a conjugate gradient algorithm. Results for simple point scatterer and meandering stream channel models suggest that LSM can significantly attenuate the recording footprint noise. For comparison,...

We present an implementation of mandatory access control for Linux network communications that restricts socket access to labelled IPSec security associations. The Linux Security Modules (LSM) framework defines a reference monitor interface that enables security modules (e.g., SELinux) to enforce comprehensive mandatory access control (MAC) for Linux version 2.6. The current LSM control over ne...

Sirli et al.'s (1) effort to compare several noninvasive methods of fibrosis assessment in chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is commendable. Their study evaluated several simple serological tests for the prediction of fibrosis in chronic HCV infection: number of platelets, the aspartate aminotransferase–platelet ratio index (APRI test), the Forns score, the Lok score, and the FIB-4 scor...

The study reported here confirms that laser surface melting (LSM) can be employed to modify the hardness and shear banding behaviour of bulk metallic glasses (BMGs). More specifically, by conducting LSM operations on Zr-based Vitreloy 105 BMG in ambient atmosphere using a nanosecond laser, it was found hardening achieved, addition well-known softening effect. Besides, presence compressive resid...

PURPOSE Using FibroScan® to obtain a reliable liver stiffness measurement (LSM) may require more than 10 valid measurements (VMs), according to the manufacturer's recommendations. However, this requirement lacks scientific evidence in support thereof. We investigated the minimal number of VMs required to assess liver fibrosis without significant loss of accuracy in patients with chronic hepatit...