Low birth weight is associated with both schizophrenia and neurocognitive impairment. Yet, to our knowledge, no previous study has examined the relationship between lower birth weight and neurocognitive deficits in schizophrenia spectrum disorders (SSD). In this preliminary study, we investigated the relationship using a broad neuropsychological battery in cases with SSD and matched control sub...

background: in radiotherapy, wedge filters are used for optimizing the tumor dose distribution in patients. the attenuation in beam intensity due to the presence of wedge filter is compensated by means of a wedge factor measured at the central axis of the beam. the field size, depth and ssd dependence of wedge factor have been assessed for 9mv radiations of neptun pc linear accelerator. materia...

The sterol-sensing domain (SSD) is a ∼180 amino acid long region that is conserved in six families of proteins such as hydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA reductase (HMDH), SREBP (sterol regulatory element binding protein) cleavage activating protein (SCAP), Niemann-Pick C-1 type protein (NPC1), Patched, Patched-related and Dispatched [1]. This domain encompasses five transmembrane helices and is involve...

Signalspace Detection (SSD) is a promising concept for symbol detection, especially on magnetic recording channels. We introduce a concept of adaptive SSD, that is characterized by a high detection performance and robustness against parameter variation.

BACKGROUND Dysfunctional reward processing is present in individuals with schizophrenia-spectrum disorders (SSD) and may confer vulnerability to addiction. Our objective was to identify a deficit in patients with SSD on response to rewarding stimuli and determine whether this deficit predicts cannabis use. METHODS We divided a group of patients with SSD and nonpsychotic controls into cannabis...

BACKGROUND The most prevalent topical treatment for partial thickness burns is silver sulfadiazine 1% (SSD). Recent studies have shown that the healing of partial thickness burns is delayed with the use of SSD. One of the potential burn dressings is sucralfate. OBJECTIVES With this study the authors have aimed to analyze comparatively the effects of sucralfate and SSD on second degree burn wo...

BACKGROUND Elderly patients with somatic symptom disorder (SSD) put a great burden on the health care delivery system. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is effective in adults with SSD. However, no studies have been conducted yet into CBT for SSD in later life. OBJECTIVES We explored the feasibility of CBT for SSD in the elderly. METHODS This is a prospective pilot study comparing two outp...

Explaining large-scale patterns of variation in body size has been considered a central question in ecology and evolutionary biology because several life-history traits are directly linked to body size. For ectothermic organisms, little is known about what processes influence geographic variation in body size. Changes in body size and sexual size dimorphism (SSD) have been associated with envir...

OBJECTIVES This study evaluated the agreement of computed tomography (CT) imaging using 3D reformations (3DR) with shaded surface display (SSD) and maximum intensity projection (MIP) in the diagnosis of bone changes in mandibular condyles of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), and compared findings with multiplanar reformation (MPR) images, used as the criterion standard. MATERIAL AND ME...

This paper focuses on I/O optimizations of N-hybrid (New-Form of hybrid), which provides a hybrid file system space constructed on SSD and HDD. Although the promising potentials of SSD, such as the absence of mechanical moving overhead and high random I/O throughput, have drawn a lot of attentions from IT enterprises, its high ratio of cost/capacity makes it less desirable to build a large-scal...