BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Ischemic stroke incidence has declined in industrialized countries the last decades, with possible exception for the youngest age groups. We estimated age- and sex-specific trends in incidence and case fatality of first-ever ischemic stroke between 1977 and 2010 in a Norwegian municipality. METHODS Age-adjusted time trends in incidence from 1977 to 2010 were estimated b...

Nitrogen fertilizer application rates in intensive agricultural systems have increased dramatically in recent years, especially in protected vegetable production systems. This excessive use of nitrogen fertilizer has resulted in soil secondary salinity, which has become a significant environmental stress for crops such as cucumber, in the protected farmlands. It is thus necessary to illuminate ...

Objective: To investigate whether prenatal, postnatal, and/or current maternal depressive symptoms are associated with low level of psychosocial functioning or high level of emotional/behavioral problems in school-age children. Method: As part of a prospective longitudinal study, maternal depressive symptoms were screened with the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale prenatally, postnatally, an...

Of the plethora of bioinformatical tools available, some useful tools that allow complete genome sequences to be compared are described here. Comparisons of genome length, base composition, gene density, numbers of tRNA and rRNA genes, and codon usage can provide useful biological insights. Examples are provided of a Genome Atlas plot, to summarize many features of a single genome, and a BLAST ...

In a ubiquitous computing environment of sensor networks, monitoring the frequent contexts of a user occurred by those sensors is very important to provide a proactive service to the user. Such frequent contexts of the sensors can be recognized by associations between the set of sensor values and a set of actuator operations. This paper proposes a method of generating a new type of an associati...