BACKGROUND There is some evidence to support a risk-stratified, multi-disciplinary approach to manage patients with hypertension in primary care. The aim of this study is to evaluate the quality of care (QOC) of a multi-disciplinary Risk Assessment and Management Programme for Hypertension (RAMP-HT) for hypertensive patients in busy government-funded primary care clinics in Hong Kong. The objec...

We assessed the correspondence between the V-slope ventilatory threshold (VT) and the lactate threshold (LT) by using a distinctive slow submaximal ramp protocol to ensure that sufficient data points exist around the threshold. Twenty healthy young men participated. A submaximal test based on a prior maximal test (25 watt/min, medium ramp) was performed with an individual slow-ramp protocol (6-...

Background: Meniscus tear is a common finding in patients with anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury and may affectthe natural history of the injury and the outcomes of treatment. In the current study, the characteristics of meniscus tearsin patients who underwent arthroscopic ACL reconstruction were investigated.Methods: The hospital records of 1022 patients were reviewed. ...

This paper investigates the global instability of supersonic ramp flow at Mach number 4.8 at different Reynolds numbers through direct numerical simulations. It is found that a critical Reynolds number exist for the flow to become globally unstable. Transition to turbulent happens downstream of the ramp with strong intermittency and is due to the breakdown of streaky structures fed by instabili...

Caused by shorter product life cycles and higher product variety the importance of production ramp ups is increasing. Even though companies are aware of that fact, up to 40% of the ramp up projects still miss technical and economical requirements. The success of a ramp up depends on the planning of human factors, organizational aspects and technological solutions. Since only partly considered i...

7.03.3 SOURCES AND DIAGENESIS OF SHOAL-WATER CARBONATE-RICH SEDIMENTS 75 7.03.3.1 Sources of Shoal-water Carbonates 75 7.03.3.1.1 General considerations 75 7.03.3.1.2 Sources of carbonate muds 76 7.03.3.1.3 Formation of carbonate sands 76 7.03.3.2 Early Marine Diagenesis of Shoal-water Carbonate-rich Sediments 77 7.03.3.2.1 Pore-water chemistry 77 7.03.3.2.2 Precipitation of early carbonate cem...

We introduce a family of bounded repulsive potentials, which we call the cut ramp potential, obtained by cutting a linear ramp potential at different heights. We find that for the uncut ramp potential the system shows a region of anomalous re-entrant melting (a negative slope of the melting line in the temperature-pressure phase diagram), with waterlike anomalies in the same pressure range. At ...