We are grateful to have read with interest the article entitled “Relationship between platelet-to-lymphocyte ratio and coronary slow flow” by Oylumlu et al. published in Anatol J Cardiol 2015; 15: 391-5 (1). In this well-presented article, the authors hypothesized that the platelet-to-lymphocyte ratio (PLR) is associated with slow coronary flow (SCF) because an increased PLR was shown to be clo...

Due to their high stiffness, small dimensions and low mass, piezoelectric stack actuators are capable of developing large displacements with bandwidths of greater than 100 kHz. However, due to their large electrical capacitance, the associated driving amplifier is usually limited in bandwidth to a few kHz. In this paper the limiting characteristics of piezoelectric drives are identified as the ...

background: tuberculosis (tb) is still a major cause of morbidity and mortality in both developed and developing countries. delay in accessing tuberculosis care is associated with the highest densities of mycobacterium tuberculosis (m. tuberculosis) bacilli on sputum smears. objectives: the current study aimed to determine the extent of delay, and the major health system contributing factors to...

OBJECTIVE The neutrophil/lymphocyte ratio (NLR), the platelet/lymphocyte ratio (PLR), and uric acid (UA) are inflammatory markers in cardiovascular disease. However, there are not enough data on infarct-related artery (IRA) patency in ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). We aimed to investigate the association of NLR, PLR, and UA with IRA patency before percutaneous coronary inte...

BACKGROUND Two biomarkers, the neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio (NLR) and platelet to lymphocyte ratio (PLR), have been shown to be indicative of systemic inflammation and predictive of mortality in general population. We aimed to assess the association of NLR and PLR, with risk of death in HIV-infected subjects when also taking account of HIV-related factors. METHODS We conducted a multicenter...

Heterogeneous networks with dense small cell deployment cause high inter-cell interference. To mitigate inter-cell interference, many interference coordination (IC) approaches have been proposed. For dense deployment with high interference among cells, traditional forward link IC approaches target on improving edge user throughput for infinite buffer traffic (i.e., FTP download), not necessaril...

Bone remodeling, a combination of bone resorption and formation, requires precise regulation of cellular and molecular signaling to maintain proper bone quality. Whereas osteoblasts deposit and osteoclasts resorb bone matrix, osteocytes both dynamically resorb and replace perilacunar bone matrix. Osteocytes secrete proteases like matrix metalloproteinase-13 (MMP13) to maintain the material qual...

BD-SIIT and DSTM are widely deployed IPv4/IPv6 Transition mechanism to improve the performance of the computer network in terms of Throughput,End to End Delay(EED) and Packet Drop Rate(PDR).In this journal paper we have Implemented and Compared the Performance Issues of our newly proposed Dollops Wise Curtail(DW&C)IPv4/IPv6 Migration Mechanism with BD-SIIT and DSTM in NS2. Implementation and Co...

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the most common cancers worldwide. However, the prognostic and clinical value of platelet-lymphocyte ratio (PLR) in colorectal cancer was still unclear, which attracted more and more researchers' considerable attention. We performed a systematic review and meta-analysis to investigate the relationship between PLR and survival as well as clinical features of CRC...