OBJECTIVE This article reviews and synthesizes evidence in the published literature on the safety and efficacy of oral rehydration therapy (ORT) among young children with pediatric gastroenteritis in developed nations. METHODOLOGY We searched the literature for randomized, controlled trials comparing the safety and efficacy of ORT with intravenous (IV) rehydration treatment and/or oral rehydr...

BACKGROUND Fibroblast growth factor-2 (FGF-2) protein level has been shown to be elevated in aged mice muscle compared to adult mice. It activates the satellite cell quiescence, which leads to satellite cell depletion and may accelerate aging process. The purpose of this study was to see the effect of resistance exercise on skeletal muscle FGF-2 protein level in aged mice. METHODS This study ...

OBJECTIVE To provide clinicians with a brief screening tool to predict accurately which individuals may develop aberrant behaviors when prescribed opioids for chronic pain. DESIGN One hundred and eighty-five consecutive new patients treated in one pain clinic took the self-administered Opioid Risk Tool (ORT). The ORT measured the following risk factors associated in scientific literature with...

Objective: To compare perioperative outcomes of robotic-assisted (RALS) versus conventional laparoscopic surgery (CLS) in endometrial cancer. Methods: This is a retrospective analysis of a prospectively maintained database of procedures performed from January 2009 to January 2014 by a single surgeon experienced in both minimally invasive techniques. One hundred and five patients underwent surgi...

In neuroimaging studies of human cognitive abilities, brain activation patterns that include regions that are strongly interactive in response to experimental task demands are of particular interest. Among the existing network analyses, partial least squares (PLS; McIntosh, 1999; McIntosh, Bookstein, Haxby, & Grady, 1996) has been highly successful, particularly in identifying group differences...

In 1980, diarrhoea was the leading cause of child mortality, accounting for 4.6 million deaths annually. Efforts to control diarrhoea over the past decade have been based on multiple, potentially powerful interventions implemented more or less simultaneously. Oral rehydration therapy (ORT) was introduced in 1979 and rapidly became the cornerstone of programmes for the control of diarrhoeal dise...

A large e ort is usually required to have a theorem prover establish a complex theorem Having invested this e ort how can we store the result for later use or communicate it to others while preserving our trust in its validity This paper discusses the use of digital signatures to store and exchange theorems in a secure way

A large e ort is usually required to have a theorem prover establish a complex theorem. Having invested this e ort, how can we store the result for later use, or communicate it to others while preserving our trust in its validity? This paper discusses the use of digital signatures to store and exchange theorems in a secure way.

Recently, a new framework for reversible subband transforms based on the overlapping rounding transform (ORT) has been proposed as an alternative to the lifting framework. In this correspondence, we show that the ORT framework is, in fact, a special case of the lifting framework with only trivial extensions.