Reports that Lyme disease (LD) causes Alzheimer's disease (AD) have appeared in academic journals and online. If the biological agent Borrelia burgdorferi that causes LD also causes AD, then areas with the highest levels of LD should have significantly higher numbers of deaths due to AD compared to low LD areas. Here we show there is no statistically significant correlation between the incidenc...

This paper presents Linked Data Reactor (LD-Reactor or LD-R) as a framework for developing flexible and reusable User Interface components for Linked Data applications. LD-Reactor utilizes Facebook’s ReactJS components, Flux architecture and Yahoo’s Fluxible framework for isomorphic Web applications. It also exploits SemanticUI framework for flexible UI themes. LD-R aims to apply the idea of co...

We investigated 28 cases of pediatric malignancy in which total lactate dehydrogenase (LD, EC 1.1.1.27) activities were increased and isoenzyme LD-1 exceeded LD-2 (flipped pattern). Of these, 11 had a flipped pattern at presentation and 17 showed a flipped pattern during chemotherapy. Those with flipped patterns at presentation were four with germ-cell tumors, one with acute lymphocytic leukemi...

Transient FHR reduction (deceleration) was classified to U-shape variable one and V-shape periodic one, which is further divided into early deceleration (ED) and late deceleration (LD), of which lag time to uterine contraction is 20 or rmore seconds (Figure 1). LD is placental insufficiency and its outcome was ominous by Hon [1]. CaldeyroBarcia Type I dip was ED and Type 2 was LD [2]. Controver...

There exist two different versions of the Kullback-Leibler divergence (K-Ld) in Tsallis statistics, namely the usual generalized K-Ld and the generalized Bregman K-Ld. Problems have been encountered in trying to reconcile them. A condition for consistency between these two generalized K-Ld-forms by recourse to the additive duality of Tsallis statistics is derived. It is also shown that the usua...

Effects of acute and chronic desipramine treatment. We compared an immunochemical method for determination of creatine kinase (CK; EC 2.7.3.2) and lactate dehydrogenase (LD; EC 1.1.1.27) activities with the conventional electropho-retic method. Of the 105 patients included in this study, 58 were in the intensive-care unit with a preliminary diagnosis of myocardial infarction; the other 47 had d...

BACKGROUND Lipodystrophy (LD; non-human immunodeficiency virus [HIV]-associated) syndromes are a rare body of disorders for which true prevalence is unknown. Prevalence estimates of rare diseases are important to increase awareness and financial resources. Current qualitative and quantitative estimates of LD prevalence range from ~0.1 to 90 cases/million. We demonstrate an approach to quantitat...

The impact of lipodystrophy (LD) on quality of life is high, but it has not been demonstrated in literature. The objective of the study was to assess the impact of LD on the health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in HIV-infected people on highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART). Patients with LD phenotype defined by the Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study (MACS) were included. Three different me...