PURPOSE Omalizumab is the preferred add-on therapy for patients with moderate-to-severe persistent allergic asthma and has demonstrated efficacy and safety in various ethnicities. This study evaluated the efficacy and safety of omalizumab in Chinese patients with moderate-to-severe allergic asthma. METHODS This randomized, double-blind, parallel-group, placebo-controlled, phase III study asse...

We study the merchant operations of commodity and energy conversion assets. Examples of such assets include natural gas pipelines systems, commodity swing options, and power plants. Merchant operations involves managing these assets as real options on commodity and energy prices with the objective of maximizing the market value of these assets. The economic relevance of natural gas conversion a...

in this work, the strontium-doped lanthanum manganite- a ceramic material- used as cathode in solid oxide fuel cells. an impression of grinding time on the structural and thermal properties of sr-doped lamno3 system with la1-xsrxmno3 (x=0.2) stoichiometric ratio was investigated. the nano crystallite lsm powder with cubic structure was prepared by varying the milling time of planetary monomill ...

The LSM 5 LIVE is a new design for fast confocal imaging, which acquires images at extremely high frame rates and allows experiments not possible in the past, while maintaining the advantages of conventional scanning systems, such as adjustable confocal apertures and scalable frame formats with pan and zoom. Additionally, the LSM 5 LIVE offers fast and sensitive parallel acquisition with charge...

least squares method (lsm) is an accurate and rapid method for solving some analytical andnumerical problems. this method can be used to estimate the average reservoir pressure in well testanalysis. in fact, it may be employed to estimate parameters such as permeability (k) and porevolume (vp). regarding this point, buildup, drawdown, late transient test data, modified muskatmethod, interferenc...

conclusions fib-4 confirmed the best value for diagnosis of significant fibrosis. apri had a sub-optimal diagnosis accuracy for significant fibrosis. lsm showed the most balance diagnosis value for cirrhosis with the highest sensitivity and moderate specificity. patients and methods a total of 544 patients with chb were assessed for fibrosis stage by four noninvasive tests containing liver stif...

We present the theory and numerical results for least-squares migration of traces generated by simultaneous sources. Numerical tests show that standard seismic data processing, such as stacking and migration, can effectively suppress some crosstalk associated with simultaneous sources data, and so can separate shot gathers from one another. In contrast, LSM can remove most of the noise from sim...

The basidiomycete Laetiporus sulphureus var. miniatus belongs to the Aphyllophorales, Polyporaceae, and grows on the needleleaf tree. The fruiting bodies of Laetiporus species are known to produce N-methylated tyramine derivatives, polysaccharides, and various lanostane triterpenoids. As part of our ongoing effort to discover biologically active compounds from wood-rotting fungi, an anti-inflam...