BACKGROUND The incidence of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) has risen steadily during the last few decades in all geographic regions covered by cancer registration for reasons that remain unknown. The aims of this study were to assess the relative contributions of age, period and cohort effects to NHL incidence patterns and therefore to provide clues to explain the increasing incidence. METHODS ...

This paper presents a quasi-static model-based control algorithm for controlling the motion of soft robotic exo-digit with three independent actuation joints physically interacting human finger. A analytical model physical interaction between and finger was developed. Then, presented as nonlinear discrete-time multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) state-space representation system design. Input...

Skeletal muscles of myostatin null (Mstn(-/-)) mice are more susceptible to atrophy during hind limb suspension (HS) than are muscles of wild-type mice. Here we sought to elucidate the mechanism for this susceptibility and to determine if Mstn(-/-) mice can regain muscle mass after HS. Male Mstn(-/-) and wild-type mice were subjected to 0, 2 or 7 days of HS or 7 days of HS followed by 1, 3 or 7...

Thispaper proposes a novel approach for handwritten digit recognition system. The present paper extracts digit image features based on distance measure and derives an algorithm to classify the digit images. The distance measure can be performed on the thinned image. Thinning is the one of the preprocessing technique in image processing.The present paper mainly concentrated on an extraction of f...

A large group of hereditary spherocytosis (HS) patients manifest the clinical signs of this condition during the neonatal period and most of them require transfusions. The authors describe a clinical case of a neonate that was transfused. They demonstrated that the splenectomized mother had an HS due to a de novo mutation of one ankyrin allele. By means of this molecular approach, they were abl...

In this study, we use institution-level data for the period 2004 to 2016 from Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System examine excess revenues of private, four-year nonprofit institutions. We present on magnitude these institutions over period, how are associated with different types private institutions, and within-institution affected by changes in time-varying factors, such as their si...

a r t i c l e i n f o JEL classification: F13 D22 F14 L25 Keywords: Antidumping investigations Difference-indifferences estimation Extensive and intensive margins Trade intermediaries Single-versus multi-product exporters Using monthly transaction data covering all Chinese exporters over the 2000–2006 period, we investigate how Chinese exporters respond to U.S. antidumping investigations. We fi...

on next page. Subject terms on next page. 29 [email protected] 3 APR 2006 2 APR 2011 Final 01-05-2011 14. ABSTRACT Acute alcohol intoxication (AAI) impairs the hemodynamic counteregulatory response to trauma and hemorrhagic shock (HS), blunts the pressor response to fluid resuscitation (FR), suppresses the HS·induced neuroendocrine response, impairs pro-inflammatory cytokine expression and incr...

Hypoxia-induced pulmonary vasoconstriction in patients with a medical history of high-altitude pulmonary edema (HAPE) may involve activation of the endothelin-1 (ET-1) pathway. We, therefore, compared the effect of the ETA/ETB receptor antagonist, bosentan, on pulmonary artery systolic pressure (PASP) in healthy subjects with (HS: HAPE subjects, n=5) or without a HAPE-history (CS: Control subje...