Background: The literature on Minorities’ Diminished Returns (MDRs) have shown worse than expected health of the members of racial and ethnic minority groups particularly Blacks. Theoretically, this effect can be in part due to weaker effects of educational attainment on preventive care and disease management in highly educated racial and ethnic minorities. Object...

A comprehensive, structural and functional, in silico analysis of the medium-chain dehydrogenase/reductase (MDR) superfamily, including 583 proteins, was carried out by use of extensive database mining and the blastp program in an iterative manner to identify all known members of the superfamily. Based on phylogenetic, sequence, and functional similarities, the protein members of the MDR superf...

Urinary incontinence is a highly prevalent condition affecting up to half of all women, most of whom have a component of stress urinary incontinence (SUI) (1). Approximately 10% of these women will undergo surgical treatment. While for decades the standard of care was the Burch colposuspension or autologous fascial pubovaginal sling, rapid advances in the development of augmented polypropylene ...

Predicting methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in intensive care units (ICUs) avoids inappropriate antimicrobial empirical treatment and enhances infection control. We describe risk factors for colonisation/infection related to MRSA (MRSA-C/I) in critically ill patients once in the ICU and on ICU admission, and search for an easy-to-use predictive model for MRSA colonisation/infe...

gravity and magnetic data are usually processed and interpreted separately, and fully integrated results basically are created in the mind of the interpreter. data interpretation in such a manner requires an interpreter experienced both on topics concerning potential field theory and the geology of the study area. to simplify the joint interpretation of data, the automatic production of auxilia...

A characteristic of femtosecond pulse scattering on small particles is the temporal separation of the pulses, which is due to the different optical path lengths through the particle. Therefore the particle converts the incident pulse in a train of pulses, with the pulse heights and temporal separation depending on particle size, refractive index and observation angle. Because of the temporal pu...

The majority of cases of acute encephalitis remain of unknown etiology despite extensive diagnostic evaluations [1, 2]. Herpes simplex virus (HSV) is the most common identified cause of acute sporadic encephalitis in the Western world, accounting for approximately 20% of total cases of identified cause [3]. Classic studies by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Collaborati...

The majority of cases of acute encephalitis remain of unknown etiology despite extensive diagnostic evaluations [1, 2]. Herpes simplex virus (HSV) is the most common identified cause of acute sporadic encephalitis in the Western world, accounting for approximately 20% of total cases of identified cause [3]. Classic studies by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Collaborati...

Morphological resources such as CELEX do not exist for many languages. NLP and RI systems that operate on texts and documents written in these languages have then to rely on morphological resources acquired from lexica or corpora. These resources usually suffer from a problem of precision because no a priori semantic knowledge is used for their acquisition. The paper proposes a robust and langu...