OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to compare aerobic function [anaerobic threshold (%VO(2)-AT), respiratory compensation point (%VO(2)-RCP) and peak oxygen uptake (VO(2)peak)] between physically active patients with HIV/AIDS and matched controls and to examine associations between disease status, poor muscle strength, depression (as estimated by the profile of mood states questionnaire) a...

OBJECTIVE Urothelial prostatic involvement (UPI) at the time of radical cystoprostatectomy (RCP) was found associated with worse survival outcomes by several previous reports. Our aim is to evaluate the impact of different levels of UPI on survival outcomes using a large series of male patients treated with RCP. METHODS Whole step section specimens from 995 male BCa patients were assessed for...

We present a formal veriication of the transient fault recovery aspects of the Reliable Computing Platform (RCP), a fault-tolerant computing system architecture for digital ight control applications. The RCP uses NMR-style redundancy to mask faults and internal majority voting to purge the eeects of transient faults. The system design has been formally speci-ed and veriied using the Ehdm veriic...

We present a formal veriication of the transient fault recovery aspects of the Reliable Computing Platform (RCP), a fault-tolerant computing system architecture for digital ight control applications. The RCP uses NMR-style redundancy to mask faults and internal majority voting to purge the eeects of transient faults. The system design has been formally speci-ed and veriied using the Ehdm veriic...

BACKGROUND The randomized case presentation (RCP) study is designed to assess the degree of diagnostic accuracy for described periodontal cases. This is to lay the basis for practitioner calibration in the Practitioners Engaged in Applied Research and Learning (PEARL) Network for future clinical studies. METHODS The RCP consisted of 10 case scenarios ranging from periodontal health to gingivi...

The Sanjiang Plain has been experienced significant wetland loss due to expanded agricultural activities, and will be potentially restored by the China National Wetland Conservation Action Plan (NWCP) in future. The objective of this study is to evaluate the impact of future climate warming and wetland restoration on wetland CH4 emissions in northeast China. We used an atmosphere-vegetation int...

The purpose of this study was to analyze and characterize the clinicopathological features of incidental prostate cancer (PCa) after radical cystoprostatectomy (RCP) for bladder cancer in Chinese patients. We retrospectively reviewed 378 male patients who underwent RCP for muscle invasive bladder cancer at our center and identified 47 men with incidental PCa. The clinicopathological data of inc...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the incidence and the clinicopathological features of incidental prostate cancer detected in radical cystoprostatectomy (RCP) specimens in Chinese men and to estimate the oncological risk of prostate apex-sparing surgery for such patients. METHODS The clinical data and pathological feature of 504 patients who underwent RCP for bladder cancer from January 1999 to March 2...

BACKGROUND Membranous nephropathy is a common cause of the nephrotic syndrome. Treatment with standard regimens fails to induce complete remission in most patients. We evaluated the efficacy of combination therapy with rituximab, low-dose, oral cyclophosphamide, and an accelerated prednisone taper (RCP) for the treatment of idiopathic membranous nephropathy. METHODS We analyzed 15 consecutive...

The language RCC8 is a widely-studied formalism for describing topological arrangements of spatial regions. The variables of this language range over the collection of non-empty, regular closed sets of n-dimensional Euclidean space, here denoted RC(Rn), and its non-logical primitives allow us to specify how the interiors, exteriors and boundaries of these sets intersect. The key question is the...