BACKGROUND Systemic levels of myeloperoxidase predict prognosis in patients with acute coronary syndromes and are considered a marker of plaque vulnerability. It is not known whether myeloperoxidase is associated with different coronary morphologies (ie, rupture or erosion of the culprit lesion) in patients with acute coronary syndrome. METHODS AND RESULTS Twenty-five consecutive patients (ag...

Background—Systemic levels of myeloperoxidase predict prognosis in patients with acute coronary syndromes and are considered a marker of plaque vulnerability. It is not known whether myeloperoxidase is associated with different coronary morphologies (ie, rupture or erosion of the culprit lesion) in patients with acute coronary syndrome. Methods and Results—Twenty-five consecutive patients (aged...

Modern logic is often defined in terms of specific formal languages, rules, and calculi. Such architectural decisions about a field form a pervasive implicit definition which determines professional practice – through the structure of textbooks, as well as the research agenda that determines 'interest', and hence acceptance and academic status. Such a practice may come to contain a lot of histo...

OBJECTIVES To see if obesity, deaths from diabetes, and daily calorie intake are associated with income inequality among developed countries. DESIGN Ecological study of 21 developed countries.Countries: Countries were eligible for inclusion if they were among the top 50 countries with the highest gross national income per capita by purchasing power parity in 2002, had a population over 3 mill...

transform the UK's capacity for innovation. We invest in early-stage companies, inform innovation policy and encourage a culture that helps innovation to flourish. This working paper was published as part of the Innovation Index project that NESTA is running pursuant to Recommendation 18 in the UK Government's 'Innovation Nation' white paper (March, 2008). As a consequence, it is intended to ex...

In the world, due to shortage of water resources, most important issues are rational use assessment, and improvement capacity riverbeds channels. this regard, research developments on improving methods hydraulic calculation resistance stability mobile river channels particular importance. The results some theoretical experimental studies resistances watercourses by scientists in CIS abroad cons...