Abstract Background: Stroke is the third cause of mortality and not only leads to dependency, which is a great social, individual and cultural problem, but also can affect the physiology, immune system and coagulation system such as plasma fibrinogen, and it may potentially increase the risk of stroke. This study investigated the relationship of opium dependency and stroke. Method...

abstract- the information on the spatial properties of soil is vital to improve soil management and to increase the crop productivity. geostatistical analysis technique is one of the most important methods for determining the spatial properties of soil. the aim of this study was to investigate spatial variability of soil chemical and physical attributes for field management in eastern shiraz, i...

Insulator strings with several material and profiles are very common in overhead transmission lines. However, the electric field and voltage distribution of insulator string is uneven which may easily lead to corona, insulators’ surface deterioration and even flashover. So the calculation of the electric field and voltage distribution along them is a very important factor in the operation time....

Abstract In this paper the response of ionic systems subjected to a spatially varying electric field is studied. Following the Nernst-Planck equation, two forces driving the mass flux are present, namely, the concentration gradient and the electric potential gradient. The mass flux due to the concentration gradient is modelled through Fick’s law, and a new constitutive relation for the mass flu...

OBJECTIVES To determine the effect of newly developed knee pain on general health and physical function of people >or=50 yrs living in the community. METHODS Prospective cohort study of 3907 people aged 50+ registered with three general practices in North Staffordshire, in the UK. The main outcome measures were self-reported knee pain; general health and physical function as measured by the S...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether reminder cards in medical records enhance the effectiveness of audit with feedback in improving the care of patients taking long term benzodiazepine drugs. DESIGN Randomised trial, practices receiving feedback only in one group and practices receiving feedback plus reminder cards in the other group. SETTING 18 general practices in Leicestershire. SUBJECTS Ra...

Current profile control by ac magnetic helicity injection is computationally investigated in a reversed field pinch ~RFP!. Three-dimensional resistive magnetohydrodynamics ~MHD! computation is employed to study the nonlinear MHD. During ac helicity injection, when toroidal and poloidal surface voltages are oscillated out of phase, the parallel electric field is maintained positive over a majori...

SRAM-based FPGA devices are an attractive option for data processing on space-based platforms, due to high computational capabilities and a lower power envelope than traditional processing devices. These devices present unique fault-testing challenges as single-event effects can trigger changes in functionality by changing the configuration memory of the device. With each new generation, FPGA c...

With the progress of e-commerce and web technology, a large volume of consumer reviews for products are generated from time to time, which contain rich information regarding consumer requirements and preferences. Although China has the largest e-commerce market in the world, but few of researchers investigated how to extract product feature from Chinese consumer reviews effectively, not to anal...