OBJECTIVE The information concerning the morbidity and mortality of hereditary hemochromatosis is based primarily on clinical cohorts of symptomatic patients. The major aim of this study was to analyze the long-term prognosis for Swedish patients with this condition, with respect to both clinical features and survival, in relation to the route by which the disease was detected. PATIENTS AND M...

The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between dental clinic credibility and patient satisfaction with regular dental check-ups, to compare the level of satisfaction of patients who had regular check-ups with those who did not, and to identify factors associated with regular dental checkups. Thirty-nine private dental clinics in 17 prefectures throughout Japan participated in...

W analyze the competitive capacity investment timing decisions of both established firms and start-ups entering new markets, which have a high degree of demand uncertainty. Firms may invest in capacity early (when uncertainty is high) or late (when uncertainty has been resolved), possibly at different costs. Established firms choose an investment timing and capacity level to maximize expected p...

One of the options to mitigate fading effects in mobile communication is adaptive transmitter gain. This paper proposes a simple technique to eliminate the effects of fading in different multi antenna set-ups by varying the transmitter gain. The multi antenna set-ups considered in this paper include Single input-single output (SISO), Single input-multi output (SIMO), Multi input-single output (...