The research on damages of structures that are supported by deep foundations has been quite intensive in the past decade. Kinematic interaction in soil-pile interaction is evaluated based on the p-y curve approach. Existing p-y curves have considered the effects of relative density on soil-pile interaction in sandy soil. The roughness influence of the surface wall pile on p-y curves has not bee...

Melatonin possesses potential efficacy in perinatal brain injuries, and has been proposed as adjunctive pharmacological therapy in combination with hypothermia in the clinical setting. However, the pharmacokinetics of melatonin in preterm and term newborns is still unknown. The aim of this study was to analyze the pharmacokinetics of melatonin after intragastric administration in preterm infant...

We have shown that with our enhanced representation, the ranking problem for given weights w reduces to the one in Joachims (2005) in the case of a fully-factored model. Here we show a similar result for the learning problem. Recall that our learning objective is defined as: min w λ 2 w 2 + 1 M m max z∈Z w ϕ(x m , z) + ∆ AU C (z, y m) − maxˆz∈Zˆz∼y m w ϕ(x m , ˆ z) (1) We would like to consider...

BACKGROUND Over the years, a plethora of frailty assessment tools has been developed. These instruments can be basically grouped into two types of conceptualizations - unidimensional, based on the physical-biological dimension - and multidimensional, based on the connections among the physical, psychological, and social domains. At present, studies on the comparison between uni- and multidimens...

There is an error in the last sentence of the Results subsection of the Abstract. The correct sentence is: The SWIFT, SOFA and TISS-28 scores showed similar predictive accuracy (AUC values were 0.66, 0. Copyright: © 2016 Rosa et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproducti...

INTRODUCTION The utility of the Appropriate Use Criteria (AUC) for amyloid imaging is not established. METHODS Fifty-three cognitively impaired patients with clinical F18-florbetapir imaging were classified as early and late onset, as well as AUC-consistent or AUC-inconsistent. Chi-square statistics and t test were used to compare demographic characteristics and clinical outcomes as appropria...

OBJECTIVE To study the association in a group of battery manufacturing workers between computerised postural sway parameters and present concentrations of blood lead (PPb), index of cumulative blood lead years (CBI), and cumulative blood lead at different years of exposure (CPbYs). METHODS Postural stability was investigated with a computerised postural sway measurement system in 60 workers e...

OBJECTIVE This article presents a decision support model that describes the mutual relationships among multiple variables for assessment of the outcome of endodontic treatment. STUDY DESIGN The model was built on the data-driven Bayesian network (BN) methodology. Randomized controlled trials of nonsurgical endodontic treatment from January 1966 through August 2007 were chosen to be our data s...

The significant increase in the complexity and autonomy of the hardware systems renders the verification of the functional safety of each individual component as well as of the entire system a complex task and underlines the need for integrated, model based tools that would assist this process. In this paper the authors present such a tool, coupled with an approach to functional safety analysis...

Interaction studies in dogs have indicated that antacids significantly decrease the oral bioavailability of cefixime. Twelve healthy adult male volunteers participated in a randomized, four-way crossover trial to evaluate the influence of an aluminum-magnesium antacid (Maalox; 20 ml) on the pharmacokinetics of cefixime (400 mg). Regimens were (i) cefixime alone; (ii) cefixime simultaneous with ...