This study aims (1) to examine the trends and patterns of colorectal cancer screening (CCS) of Medicare beneficiaries in rural areas by state and year (before and after Affordable Care Act [ACA] enactment) and (2) to investigate the contextual, organizational, and aggregated patient characteristics influencing variations in care received by patients of rural health clinics (RHCs). The following...

Background: The objectives of this study were: a) to observe the influence of cumulus investment expansion on the nuclear chromatin configuration of canine oocytes matured in vitro; b) to examine the relationship between cumulus cell (CC) expansion and its morphology after in vitro maturation (IVM); c) to ascertain the influence of in vivo serum progesterone (SP) concentrations of ovary donors ...

BACKGROUND We initially proposed a useful and novel prognostic model, named CCS [Combination of c-reactive protein (CRP) and squamous cell carcinoma antigen (SCC)], for predicting the postoperative survival in patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC). METHODS Two hundred and fifty-two patients with resectable ESCC were included in this retrospective study. A logistic regression...

Corticostriatal pyramidal cells are heterogeneous in the frontal cortex. Here, we show that subpopulations of corticostriatal neurons in the rat frontal cortex are selectively connected with each other based on their subcortical targets. Using paired recordings of retrogradely labeled cells, we investigated the synaptic connectivity between two projection cell types: those projecting to the pon...

As a significant mitigation strategy to fight climate change, Carbon Capture & Storage (CCS) demonstration projects have received huge amount of public funding across the world. After examining three large scale integrated CCS coal-fired power demonstration projects, which are carried out by America, Europe and China, this paper presents three different approaches that three authorities are tak...

Abdominal compartment syndrome (ACS) was originally described in trauma patients but is now known to occur in critically ill patients with a myriad of acute illnesses. Recent epidemiological studies have characterized the prevalence of intraabdominal hypertension (defi ned as an intraabdominal pressure [IAP] measured at the urinary bladder ≥12 mmHg) between 2% and 33% [1,2] and the prevalence o...

fossil energy resources. The main findings of the report include: CCS is viable, a carbon price is critical, Federal coordination should be strengthened, and long-term liability could be a barrier to CCS deployment. The report contains input from 14 Federal agencies and departments, stakeholders, and CCS experts. In addition, the report addresses incentives for CCS adoption and a number of fina...

We introduce the process calculus Multi-CCS, which extends conservatively CCS with an operator of strong prefixing able to model atomic sequences of actions as well as multiparty synchronization. Multi-CCS is equipped with a labeled transition system semantics, which makes use of a minimal structural congruence. Multi-CCS is also equipped with an unsafe P/T Petri net semantics by means of a nov...

A real time extension of CCS which takes into account properties of an interconnection communication network is presented. With the help of this calculus several semantics for CCS are deened. Limitations of CCS are discussed.

Polyspermy is fairly common during porcine in vitro fertilisation (IVF), perhaps due to incomplete in vitro oocyte maturation (IVM). Porcine cumulus cells (CCs) layered around the oocyte produce large amounts of extracellular hyaluronan (HA) when forming an expanding cell cloud during the last phase of oocyte maturation. The specific actions of HA are mediated via HA-binding proteins (HABPs), s...