INTRODUCTION This retrospective cohort study investigated the relation between different measures of glycemic exposure and micro- and macrovascular complications among patients with type 2 diabetes. METHODS The analysis included patients receiving oral antihyperglycemic agents between 1 January 2006 and 31 December 2014 from the General Practitioner Database from the PHARMO Database Network. ...

To solve the problem of moving object detecting in the wide field, this paper establishes a new artificial compound imaging system and proposes moving object detection algorithm. According to the unique principle of receiving and processing of visual information from animal compound-eye, the model of artificial imaging system consists of a micro-lens array and CCD device with planar array, capt...

in this study, aluminum (al) matrix reinforced with micro-particles (30 µm) and nano-particles (50 nm) boron carbide (b4c) were used to prepare al-2.5%wt., b4c nano-composite and micro-composite, respectively, using mechanical alloying method. the mixed powders were mechanically milled at 5, 10, 15 and 20 hrs. the xrd results indicated that the crystallite sizes of both the micro-composite and ...

Determination and analysis of vibration behavior of structures for at least first few natural frequencies and mode shapes needs several sensors to be connected at different non node points and exciting the structure at one point. Other method for determination of first few mode shapes is to excite several points of the structure at once and sensing the response from one point.  Both methods nee...

There is a growing need to increase global crop yields, whilst minimising use of resources such as land, fertilisers and water. Agricultural researchers use ground-based observations to identify, select and develop crops with favourable genotypes and phenotypes; however, the ability to collect rapid, high quality and high volume phenotypic data in open fields is restricting this. This study dev...

Title of dissertation: CAPTURING MICRO-EMULSIONS AND MICRO-FOAMS WITH THE ARBITRARY LAGRANGIAN EULERIAN METHOD Andrew Brandon, Doctor of Philosophy, 2015 Dissertation directed by: Professor Konstantina Trivisa Department of Mathematics The goal of this work is to develop a 2D, heterogenous model for the purpose of studying liquid drainage from micro-foams and micro-emulsions. Liquid drainage wi...