BACKGROUND & AIMS To assess the agreement and the association between phase angle (PA) and parameters of nutritional status in surgical patients. METHODS This was a cross-sectional study that involved 98 patients admitted for elective gastrointestinal or hernia repair surgery. The risk and nutritional status were evaluated through Nutritional Risk Screening 2002 (NRS 2002), Subjective Global ...

The gold standard for measuring knee alignment is mechanical axis determined using full-limb radiographs (FLR). Measurement of joint alignment using antero-posterior (AP) knee radiographs is more accessible, economical and involves less radiation exposure to the patient compared with using full-limb radiographs. The aim of this study was to compare and assess the reproducibility of knee joint a...

PURPOSE To create a standardized method for evaluating the video recordings of patients self-instilling eye drops and to determine the level of agreement of eye drop instillation efficacy, safety and efficiency ratings by three masked graders. DESIGN Prospective cross-sectional study. PARTICIPANTS 78 patients with open-angle glaucoma or ocular hypertension who had at least 6 months of exper...

OBJECTIVE Successful endodontic therapy depends on adequate mechanical and chemical debridement of the canal which requires knowledge of the canal morphology. Conventional radiography has been used to evaluate the canal type; however, direct digital radiography has recently been practiced for this purpose due to the shortcomings of conventional radiography. The aim of the present study was to c...

STUDY DESIGN Retrospective diagnostic study. PURPOSE To define a new radiological sign, "Baltalimani sign," in severe angular kyphosis (SAK) and to report its relationship with the risk of neurological deficits and deformity severity. OVERVIEW OF LITERATURE Baltalimani sign was previously undefined in the literature. METHODS We propose Baltalimani sign as the axial orientation of the vert...

Accurate constraints on curvature provide a powerful probe of inflation. However, based specific assumptions dark energy may lead to unreliable conclusions when used test inflation models. To avoid this, it is important obtain that are independent for energy. In this paper, we investigate such from the geometrical constructed galaxy-lensing cross-correlations. We study comprehensively cross-cor...

In this paper, by applying Mahgoub transform, we show that the \(n^{\rm th}\) order linear differential equation \[x^{(n)}(v)+\sum_{\kappa=0}^{n-1}a_\kappa x^{(\kappa)}(v)=\psi(v)\] has Hyers-Ulam stability, where \(a_\kappa\)'s are scalars and \(x\) is an \(n\) times continuously differentiable function of exponential order.

A monoclonal antibody (K-1-21) raised against a kappa Bence Jones protein exhibits unique binding properties to malignant plasma cells. K-1-21 is an IgG1 kappa antibody that reacts with human kappa light chains in free form, but shows no reactivity with heavy chain-associated kappa light chains. By immunofluorescence, K-1-21 binds to the surface of LICR LON/HMy2 (HMy2) kappa myeloma cells and t...

DNA polymerase kappa (Pol kappa) is a newly identified low-fidelity polymerase implicated in spontaneous and DNA damage-induced mutagenesis. As an initial study to investigate its possible involvement in tumorigenesis, we compared the expression level of Pol kappa in tumors and adjacent nontumorous tissues by Northern blot, semiquantitative RT-PCR, and Western blot analyses. In this study, pair...

Commutator methods are applied to get limiting absorption principles for the discrete standard and Molchanov-Vainberg Schr\"odinger operators $H_{\mathrm{std}}= \Delta+V$ $H_{\mathrm{MV}} = D+V$ on $\ell^2(\mathbb{Z}^d)$, with emphasis $d=1,2,3$. Considered electric potentials $V$ satisfying a long range condition of type: $V-\tau_j ^{\kappa}V$ decays appropriately some $\kappa \in \mathbb{N}$ ...