Background. Previous studies have suggested that a thin or eroded cortex of the mandible detected on dental panoramic radiographs is associated with low vertebral bone mineral density (BMD) or osteoporosis. However, those studies did not estimate the multivariate-adjusted risk for low vertebral BMD or osteoporosis associated with alterations of the mandible. Methods. BMD of the lumbar vertebrae...

Women younger than 75 years with stable angina or acute coronary syndrome have higher cardiac mortality than similarly aged men, despite less obstructive coronary artery disease. To determine whether the myocardial structure and coronary microvasculature of women differs from that of men, we performed histological analysis of biopsies from nonischemic left ventricular myocardium from 46 men and...

AIM The purpose of this study was to investigate the usefulness of the neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio (NLR), platelet to lymphocyte ratio (PLR) Mean Platelet Volume (MPV) and Red Cell Distribution Width (RDW) in the differential diagnosis and follow-up of patients with Bells Palsy. MATERIAL AND METHODS Twenty-eight patients diagnosed with Bells Palsy and 28 control patients were included in t...

Women younger than 75 years with stable angina or acute coronary syndrome have higher cardiac mortality than similarly aged men, despite less obstructive coronary artery disease. To determine whether the myocardial structure and coronary microvasculature of women differs from that of men, we performed histological analysis of biopsies from nonischemic left ventricular myocardium from 46 men and...

A layered graph is a connected graph whose vertices are partitioned into sets L0 = {s}, L1, L2, ..., and whose edges, which have nonnegative integral weights, run between consecutive layers. Its width is max{|Li|}. In the on-line layered graph traversal problem, a searcher starts at s in a layered graph of unknown width and tries to reach a target vertex t; however, the vertices in layer i and ...

In this study, we have used nanoimprinting to create a range of micro- and nanoscale gratings, or their combination, in bulk polystyrene plates to investigate anisotropic cell behaviors of human dermal fibroblasts with respect to the aspect ratio (depth/width) of gratings. The depth and width of the polystyrene gratings both show strong effects individually on cell alignment and elongation that...

The status of W and Z cross-section and width measurements from the CDF and D0 experiments is reviewed. Recent results that are discussed: the cross-section for Z production times the branching ratio to tau pairs, the rapidity and transverse momentum distributions of Z production in the electron channel, and the direct measurements of the W width and the Z invisible width; the latter from an an...