In 1 1The first two authors contributed equally to this study. this present study, we found that the use of rosuvastatin with cumulative using duration >12 months could correlate with 2.8-fold increased risk of lung cancer in women. We did not have specific comments on these results. Further prospective clinical studies of statins use are needed to elucidate this issue.

Irregular buildings make up a large portion of  urban infrastructure. Presence of irregularities can be due to architectural and  user changes in building stories. Main objective of this article is evaluate seismic performance of structures with vertical irregularities. Seismic responses are obtained by enveloping peak inelastic responses resulting from pushover analyses according to provided p...

To determine whether a cumulative sleep debt (in a range commonly experienced) would result in cumulative changes in measures of waking neurobehavioral alertness, 16 healthy young adults had their sleep restricted 33% below habitual sleep duration, to an average 4.98 hours per night [standard deviation (SD) = 0.57] for seven consecutive nights. Subjects slept in the laboratory, and sleep and wa...

The design of grating-based instruments to handle and condition coherent ultrafast pulses in the extreme-ultraviolet is discussed. The main application of such instruments is the monochromatization of high-order laser harmonics and free-electron-laser pulses in the femtosecond time scale. Broad-band monochromators require the use of diffraction gratings at grazing incidence. A grating can be us...

Domestic mobility restrictions to control the spread of COVID-19 are widespread in developing countries, and have trapped millions migrant workers hotspot cities. We show that bans can increase cumulative infections relative a counterfactual sans restrictions. A SEIR model shows bans’ impacts nonlinear duration. empirically test this hypothesis using natural experiment India as well data from C...

The role of electronic excitation in inelastic collisions between ultracold Ca atoms and Ba(+) ions, confined in a hybrid trap, is studied for the first time. Unlike previous investigations, this system is energetically precluded from undergoing inelastic collisions in its ground state, allowing a relatively simple experimental determination and interpretation of the influence of electronic exc...

Common infectious diseases (CID) of the airways and the gastrointestinal tract are still a considerable cause of morbidity and mortality in elderly. The present study examined the beneficial effect of a dairy product containing the probiotic strain Lactobacillus casei DN-114 001 (fermented product) on the resistance of free-living elderly to CID. The study was multicentric, double blind and con...

Background. Gentamicin is used for the treatment of resistant gram-negative bacterial infections. Studies comparing single-daily dosing (SDD) to multiple-daily dosing (MDD) show similar efficacy and less nephrotoxicity. Less is known about the effects of different dosing regimens on the development of ototoxicity. Among patients referred to our Multidisciplinary Neurotology Clinic (MNC), we com...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the gender-specific differential effects of smoking habits and cumulative smoking exposure on outcomes in patients with upper tract urothelial carcinoma (UTUC) treated with radical nephroureterectomy (RNU). PATIENTS AND METHODS A total of 864 consecutive patients, comprising 553 (64%) men and 311 (36%) women, from five international institutions underwent RNU without neo...

Considering Rao et al. (2004) and Di Crescenzo and Longobardi (2009) studies, Misagh et al. (2011) proposed a weighted information which is based on the cumulative entropy called Weighted Cumulative Entropy (WCE). The above-mentioned model is a Shiftdependent Uncertainty Measure. In this paper, we examine some of the properties of WCE and obtain some bounds for that. In order to ...