Examination of the composition of saliva in patients with diabetes may be useful for understanding why oral manifestations occur and how they should be treated. The purpose of this study was to determine the degree of severity of xerostomia, salivary concentrations of glucose and urea in patients with insulin-dependent diabetes, and to determine the correlation between xerostomia and salivary g...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The objective of this study was to compare mesh contracture, adhesion characteristics, tissue ingrowth, and histologic response of Ventralight ST/SorbaFix (C.R. Bard/Davol, Warwick, RI, USA) with Physiomesh/Securestrap (Ethicon, Somerville, NJ, USA) in a porcine model of laparoscopic ventral hernia repair. METHODS Standard laparoscopic technique was used to bilateral...

PURPOSE To determine if thalidomide plus dexamethasone yields superior response rates compared with dexamethasone alone as induction therapy for newly diagnosed multiple myeloma. PATIENTS AND METHODS Patients were randomly assigned to receive thalidomide plus dexamethasone or dexamethasone alone. Patients in arm A received thalidomide 200 mg orally for 4 weeks; dexamethasone was administered ...

We combine the logic of multi-mode networks developed in Fararo and Doreian (1984) with Newman’s (2006) spectral partitioning of graphs into communities. The resulting generalization of spectral partitioning provides a simple, elegant, and useful tool for discovering the community structure of multi-mode graphs. We apply the generalized procedure to a published threemode network and find that t...

0017-9310/$ see front matter 2010 Elsevier Ltd. A doi:10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2010.09.029 ⇑ Corresponding author. Tel.: +1 765 494 5705; fax E-mail address: [email protected] (I. Mud This study explores the use of a high-pressure metal hydride (HPMH), Ti1.1CrMn, to store hydrogen at high pressures (up to 310 bar) and temperatures below 60 C, conditions that are suitable for automobile...

One way of 'restricting linguistic theory' is the L-view: place sufficient restrictions on the allowable rules of grammars so as to reduce their generative power. Another way is the G-view: disallow certain grammars, regardless of whether this results in a reduction of generative capacity. The present paper adopts the L-view and, consequently, investigates the generative power of various theori...

Emissions and accumulation of acidifying pollutants such as sulfur and nitrogen oxides negatively affect welfare both directly and indirectly. The direct effects are due to the negative effects of acidification on the consumption value of the environment. The indirect effects are due to the negative impact of acidification on forest growth and the productivity of labor and capital. In other wor...