BACKGROUND Strategies in many countries have sought to improve palliative care and reduce hospital deaths for non-cancer patients, but their effects are not evaluated. We aimed to determine the trends and factors associated with dying in hospital in two common progressive respiratory diseases, and the impact of a national end of life care (EoLC) strategy to reduce deaths in hospital. METHODS ...

Abstract BACKGROUND AND AIMS Patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), Crohn’s (CD), and ulcerative colitis (UC) have been shown to be at up a 40% increased risk of developing Parkinson’s (PD), progressive neurodegenerative disorder. Even though genetic link between IBD PD was established through shared causal mutations in the LRRK2 gene, it cannot fully explain observed comorbidity. The ...

BACKGROUND Progesterone is a key hormonal regulator of the female reproductive system. It plays a major role to prepare the uterus for implantation and in the establishment and maintenance of pregnancy. Actions of progesterone on the uterine tissues (endometrium, myometrium and cervix) are mediated by the combined effects of two progesterone receptor (PR) isoforms, designated PR-A and PR-B. Bot...

We examine the problem whether a given weakly extended process rewrite system (wPRS) contains a reachable state satisfying a given formula of Hennessy–Milner logic. We show that this problem is decidable. As a corollary we observe that the problem of strong bisimilarity between wPRS and finite-state systems is decidable. Decidability of the same problem for wPRS subclasses, namely PAN and PRS, ...

Original scientific paper The paper presents the possibility of electricity generation at the pressure reduction stations (PRS) in the conventional system of natural gas transmission and distribution. The main deficiency of the conventional system is its thermodynamic irreversibility, i.e. the loss of potential work that could be generated while reducing the gas pressure. Within the first part ...

Background: The aim of this study was to perform cost-effectiveness Analysis of IEV versus ESHAP chemotherapy regimen in patients with Lymphoma in Iran. Materials and Methods: Our study used a cross-sectional design done as a double-blind study of 65 patients suffering from relapsed/refractory Hodgkin and non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma in Amir Oncology Hospital in Shiraz, in the south of Iran. The cost...

PRS (a tool based on procedural reasoning) has inspired several works in Artificial Intelligence, mainly in embedded and industrial applications. This paper proposes a verification mechanism of PRS programs, based on equivalence rules with Coloured Petri Nets (CPN). This equivalence allows using existing analysis methods for coloured Petri nets to verify PRS programs.