The aim of this study was to evaluate and compare the Child-Turcotte-Pugh (CTP) classification system and the model for end-stage liver disease (MELD) score in predicting the severity of the systemic inflammatory response in living-donor liver transplantation patients. Recipients of liver graft were allocated to a recipient group (n = 39) and healthy donors to a donor group (n = 42). The associ...

In this case, we describe a case of a 76-year-old male with extensive aortoiliac aneurysms treated by endovascular aneurysm repair using the sandwich technique in order to preserve left internal iliac artery perfusion. The sandwich technique refers to the deployment of multiple paralleled stent grafts into main distal and side branches in overlapping with a single proximal stent graft. The proc...

Sandwich-type biosensor platforms have drawn lots of attentions due to its superior features, compared to other platforms, in terms of its stable and reproducible responses and easy enhancement in the detection sensitivity. The sandwich-type assays can be developed by utilizing a pair of receptors, which bind to the different sites of the same target. In this mini-review paper, the sandwich-typ...

Magnetorheological elastomer (MRE) material consisting of a natural or synthetic rubber filled with micron sized iron particles is a smart material whose properties can be controlled by a magnetic field. In this paper, experimental study on the dynamic characteristics of an MRE core embedded sandwich beam is carried out. Frequency responses from experimental results on MRE cored sandwich beams ...

The Earl system works in the domain of sandwich recipes. We show how Earl uses two sources of knowledge —ingredients knowledge that is extracted from a gastronomy web site, and a case base of sandwich recipes— to propose substitutes for ingredients in sandwich recipes. In particular, we describe four substitution methods: humanauthored substitutions, taxonomically-driven substitutions, lexicall...

alkylhydroperoxide reductase (ahpc, the 26 kda antigen) is one of the abundant antioxidant enzymes in helicobacter pylori and seems to have a good potential for use in development of immunoassays to detect h. pylori infection in clinical specimens. this study aimed to investigate some properties of this antigen by the produced monoclonal antibodies. five established hybridoma cell lines secreti...

The majority of Indonesian women, known as "sandwich generations," have taken care their young children and aging parents. Individual role-balancing challenges among these "sandwich" women not yet, been fully investigated. This study aims to highlight women's obstacles for being a sandwich generation. A qualitative descriptive case through semi-structured interviews was carried out. purposive s...

Earl is a case-based reasoning system which works in the domain of sandwich recipes. It has a case base of 9,507 cases, each being a sandwich recipe which we scraped from the web. We show how Earl can compose new sandwiches from the ingredients of sandwiches that it retrieves from its case base. On each iteration, it inserts into the sandwich the candidate ingredient which results in greatest c...

A competitive and a sandwich enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) were developed for human leukocyte collagenase and gelatinase. The competitive assay could detect 0.5 ng collagenase and 0.05 ng gelatinase. The detection limit of the sandwich ELISA was 0.05 ng for collagenase and 0.02 ng for gelatinase. No cross reactivity between human leukocyte collagenase and gelatinase was detected. Th...

The sandwich sign is used to describe mesenteric lymphoma in which mesenteric vessels and fat are enveloped by enlarged mesenteric lymph nodes. We present two cases of primary pleural lymphoma demonstrating the "pleural sandwich sign". Contrast-enhanced computed tomography showed conglomerated parietal pleural and extrapleural masses encasing the intercostal arteries. Histopathological examinat...