In July 2002, we started our second 3-year term as the Editors of Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation (NDT). We are pleased to see that a large readership consults the journal, either in its usual paper format or in its more recently introduced electronic format. Important changes in manuscript handling have occurred in the last 2 years, as outlined below. We also give an update on manuscript f...

The paper overviewed the current state of NDT development in China and its main achievement in the past 30 years since the foundation of Chinese Society for Non-destructive Testing(ChSNDT)in 1978. The achievements of NDT applications in some industrial sectors, such as in special equipment areas, in oil and gas pipeline industry, in nuclear power plants, in railways, and in aviation industries ...

The Normal Distributions Transform (NDT) scan registration algorithm divides a point cloud using rectilinear voxel cells then models the points within each cell as a set of Gaussian distributions. A nonlinear optimization is performed in order to register the scans, however the voxel based approach results in a discontinuous cost function that hinders convergence. In this work, a segmented regi...

Nondialytic therapy (NDT)--also calledconservative kidney management--is a growing modality of treatment for select chronic kidney disease and end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients globally. Nevertheless, NDT is rarely practiced in the United States. We set out to investigate NDT activity before initiation of renal replacement therapy in a Northwestern Wisconsin Mayo Clinic ESRD population. R...

Neurodevelopmental treatment (NDT) is a technique widely used by physical and occupational therapists in the treatment of neuromuscular disorders; however, quantitative evidence supporting its use has yet to be provided. Several studies have attempted to examine the effects of NDT, but because of poor research methodology, conclusions drawn to support the use of NDT are not based on reliable or...

The purpose of this paper is to review recent research on the applications of existing non-destructive testing (NDT) techniques, especially radio frequency (RF) NDT, for carbon-fibre reinforced plastics (CFRP) composites. Electromagnetic properties of CFRP composites that are associated with RF NDT are discussed first. The anisotropic characteristic of the conductivity and the relationship betw...

Neurodevelopmental treatment (NDT) is the most used rehabilitation approach in the treatment of patients with stroke in the Western world today, despite the lack of evidence for its efficacy. The aim of this study was to conduct an intervention check and measure the nurses' competence, in positioning stroke patients according to the NDT approach. The sample consisted of 144 nurses in six neurol...

The five most cited NDT articles from 1985 to 1993 Raine AEG, Margreiter R, Brunner FP et al. Report on management of renal failure in Europe, XXII 1991 NDT 1992; 7 Suppl 2: 7–35 (285 citations, end 2009) Hasslacher C, Ritz E, Wahl P et al. Similar risks of nephropathy in patients with type-I or type-II diabetes-mellitus NDT 1989; 4 (10): 859–863 (176 citations, end 2009) Schillinger F, Schilli...

BACKGROUND Neurodevelopmental treatment (NDT) is a rehabilitation approach increasingly used in the care of stroke patients, although no evidence has been provided for its efficacy. OBJECTIVE To investigate the effects of NDT on the functional status and quality of life (QoL) of patients with stroke during one year after stroke onset. METHODS 324 consecutive patients with stroke from 12 Dut...

The five most cited NDT articles from 1999 through 2004 Guérin AP, London GM, Marchais SJ, Métivier F Arterial stiffening and vascular calcifications in end-stage renal disease NDT 2000; 15 (7): 1014– 1021 (437 citations, end 2009) London GM, Guérin AP, Marchais SJ, Métivier F, Pannier B, Adda H Arterial media calcification in end-stage renal disease: impact on all-cause and cardiovascular mort...