BACKGROUND Peripheral arterial disease (PAD) is a leading cause of morbidity in hemodialysis (HD) patients. Recent evidence suggests that abdominal obesity (AO) may play a role in PAD. However, the association between AO and PAD has not been thoroughly studied in HD patients. METHODS The present cross-sectional study aimed to examine the relationship between AO and PAD in a cohort of 204 chro...

We propose a new decidable subclass of term rewriting systems (TRSs) for which strongly normalizing (SN) property is decidable. The new class is called almost orthogonal inverse finite path overlapping TRSs (AO-FPO−1-TRSs) and the class properly includes AO growing TRSs for which SN is decidable. Tree automata technique is used to show that SN is decidable for AO-FPO−1-TRSs.

BACKGROUND Burning mouth syndrome (BMS) and atypical odontalgia (AO) are two conditions involving chronic oral pain in the absence of any organic cause. Psychiatrically they can both be considered as "somatoform disorder". From the dental point of view, however, the two disorders are quite distinct. BMS is a burning or stinging sensation in the mouth in association with a normal mucosa whereas ...

Speech perception under audiovisual (AV) conditions is well known to confer benefits to perception such as increased speed and accuracy. Here, we investigated how AV training might benefit or impede auditory perceptual learning of speech degraded by vocoding. In Experiments 1 and 3, participants learned paired associations between vocoded spoken nonsense words and nonsense pictures. In Experime...

Human aldehyde oxidase (AO) is a molybdoflavoenzyme that commonly oxidizes azaheterocycles in therapeutic drugs. Although high metabolic clearance by AO resulted in several drug failures, existing in vitro-in vivo correlations are often poor and the extrahepatic role of AO practically unknown. This study investigated enzymatic activity of AO in fresh human skin, the largest organ of the body, f...

These lectures take a look at how observations with adaptive optics (AO) are beginning to influence our understanding of active galactic nuclei (AGN). By focussing on a few specific topics, the aim is to highlight the different ways in which enhanced spatial resolution from AO can aid the scientific analysis of AGN data. After presenting some background about how AO works, I will describe a few...

The Durham adaptive optics (AO) real-time controller was initially a proof of concept design for a generic AO control system. It has since been developed into a modern and powerful central-processing-unit-based real-time control system, capable of using hardware acceleration (including field programmable gate arrays and graphical processing units), based primarily around commercial off-the-shel...

The effect of changes in observational coverage on the association between the Arctic oscillation (AO) and extratropical Northern Hemisphere surface temperature is examined. A coupled atmosphere–ocean model, which produces a realistic simulation of the circulation and temperature patterns associated with the AO, is used as a surrogate for the real climate system. The association between the AO ...

Paulo), Santa Casa de Miseric ordia de Santos (Santos), Santa Casa de Miseric ordia de S~ao Paulo (S~ao Paulo), Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Campinas), Universidade Estadual de Londrina (Londrina), Universidade Federal de Goi as (Goiânia), Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (Belo Horizonte), Universidade Federal de S~ao Paulo (S~ao Paulo), Universidade Federal do Ceara (Fortaleza), Univ...

Advances in Adaptive Optics (AO) systems and image processing techniques have allowed image reconstruction to reach new levels of sophistication with impressive improvements in resolvability. The products of these reconstruction methods are often compared by eye due to a lack of widely agreed-upon objective performance metrics. This presentation describes imagery of satellites taken with and wi...