OBJECTIVES Work-related musculoskeletal disorders (MSD) are quite frequent in healthcare workers (HCWs), but data about MSD in home-based healthcare workers (HHWs) are lacking. In this study we describe the prevalence of MSD among Italian HHWs. MATERIAL AND METHODS A case-control study was carried out among 300 random-selected female HCWs, the sample comprising 100 HHWs, 100 HCWs with a low e...

Competing interest LM is an expert consultant for Amgen Inc., AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals, Lilly, Ipsen, Mayoly Spindler, MSD, Novo Nordisk, Pfizer, Sanofi, Sanofi Pasteur MSD and Servier. DD is a consultant for Abbvie, BMS, Novartis, Novo Nordisk, Pfizer and Sanofi. FD participates in working groups and attends conferences at the request of Pfizer, GSK and Sanofi Pasteur MSD. DS participated i...

The objective of this study was to compare the reproductive performance of anoestrous dairy cows treated just prior to the mating start date (MSD) with a Controlled Internal Drug Releasing Device (CIDR) which was placed intravaginaly for either 6 or 8 days, and a combination of oestradiol benzoate. Lactating dairy cows (n = 926) that had been diagnosed with anovulatory anoestrus were divided in...

Mesoderm induction is fundamental for establishing the basic body plan of the vertebrate embryo and mutations are critical for dissecting this process. Mouse embryos lacking msd (mesoderm deficiency) do not produce mesoderm but have well-defined extraembryonic and thickened embryonic ectoderm. Distribution of transcripts indicate that temporal regulation of gene expression relevant to gastrulat...

We provide a simple no-go theorem for ergodicity and the generalized Einstein relation for anomalous diffusion processes. The theorem states that either ergodicity in the sense of equal time and ensemble averaged mean squared displacements (MSD) is broken, and/or the generalized Einstein relation for time averaged diffusivity and mobility is invalid, which is in complete contrast to normal diff...

In HTS, the HTK HMM definition (please see HTKBook [1] Chapter 7) has been modified to support MSD [2], stream-level tying, and adaptation of multi-stream HMMs. This section gives its brief description. First, is added to global options of the HTK HMM definition language The arguments to the option are the number of streams (default 1) and then for each stream, 0 (non-MSD st...

This paper presents a new Variable Step-Size Normalized Subband Adaptive Filter (VSS-NSAF) algorithm. The proposed algorithm uses the prior knowledge of the system impulse response statistics and the optimal step-size vector is obtained by minimizing the Mean-Square Deviation (MSD). In comparison with NSAF, the VSS-NSAF algorithm has faster convergence speed and lower MSD. To reduce the computa...

A gas chromatograph (GC) coupled with a mass spectrometer (MS) forms a powerful tool for high quality quantitative and qualitative analysis. However, GC/MS analysis of complex mixtures such as essential oils often is a time-consuming task due to limitations in techniques and instrumentation. Faster analyses of these mixtures are possible by coupling the 5973A mass selective detector (MSD) with ...