Motion planning problems have been studied by both the robotics and the controls research communities for a long time, and many algorithms have been developed for their solution. Among them, incremental sampling-based motion planning algorithms, such as the Rapidlyexploring Random Trees (RRT), and the Probabilistic Road Maps (PRM) have become very popular recently, owing to their implementation...

BACKGROUND Chronic kidney disease due to diabetes (DCKD) is the main known cause of renal replacement therapy (RRT) initiation. A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study showed that the rate of DCKD cases initiating RRT among the overall DM population has dropped in the USA. Our main objective was to analyse this rate in Catalonia in 1994, 2002, 2006 and 2010. Cardiovascular risk facto...

conclusions this study showed that the developed rrt-pcr assays are rapid, reliable, reproducible, specific, sensitive, and simple tools for detection of mers-cov. finally, a kit consisting of two assay signatures and controls was assembled, which can be distributed to public health laboratories in iran to support international mers-cov surveillance and public health response. results the upe a...

during 2010-2011, real-time pcr procedure was used to detecting fmdv rna on 147 epithelium samples from the field. in this survey, for real-time pcr from 3d gene segment as conserve region selected for tracking all of seven serotypes fmdv. the assay detected the viral rna in all serotypes of fmdv. the rrt-pcr specifically detected fmd virus in sample with greater sensitivity than our convention...

Objectives To analyse differences in survival between patients presenting community acquired advanced acute kidney injury (CAKIN3) and hospital acquired advanced acute kidney injury (HAKIN3). We also evaluated Renal Replacement Therapy (RRT) timing impact in these two populations. Methods We studied a cohort of 217 critically ill patients all of them presenting advanced acute kidney injury (AKI...

BACKGROUND Relatively few data exist on the burden of end-stage renal disease (ESRD) and use of renal replacement therapy (RRT)-a life-saving therapy-in developing regions. No study has quantified the proportion of patients who develop ESRD but are unable to access RRT. METHODS We performed a comprehensive literature search to estimate use and annual initiation of RRT worldwide, and present t...

The aim of this study is to evaluate epidemiological status of Balkan endemic nephropathy (BEN) patients on renal replacement therapy (RRT) in Bosnia from 2003 through 2005. Incidence and prevalence rates of BEN, diabetes mellitus (DM) and RRT population and proportion of BEN RRT population in total RRT population were tracked in renal units covering the entire BEN endemic region in Bosnia. BEN...

BACKGROUND To investigate the impact of timing the initiation of renal replacement therapy (RRT) on clinical outcomes in critically ill patients with acute kidney injury (AKI), focusing on the randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in this field. METHODS The PubMed, EMBASE and Cochrane databases were searched between January 1, 1985, and June 30, 2016, to identify randomized trials that assessed...

The RRT algorithm represents an extreme in the design space of planning algorithms. It forsakes optimality and explores the space through randomness and a small bias towards goals. This is in marked contrast to other planning strategies such as visibility graphs or voronoi diagrams which carefully analyze and partition the space to find paths. This difference makes RRT very efficient even in hi...

BACKGROUND Renal failure requiring renal replacement therapy (RRT) is common in patients with end-stage liver disease (ESLD) and is associated with worse outcomes following liver transplantation (LT). We investigated the factors associated with liberation from posttransplant RRT and studied the impact of RRT on patient and graft outcomes. METHODS A 5-year retrospective study of ESLD patients ...