R. Arpaci-Dusseau, University of Wisconsin, USA S. Bagchi, Purdue University, USA C. Borcea, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA P. Buchholz, University of Dortmund, Germany G. Ciardo, University of California Riverside, USA C. Constantinescu, Intel, USA M. Cukier, University of Maryland, USA M. Dacier, Eurecom, France T. Dohi, University of Hiroshima, Japan J. Dugan, University of Virginia...

This study presents an analytical investigation into the mechanical behavior of a cartilage-polydioxanone (PDS) plate composite grafts. Numerical methods are used to provide a first-order, numerical model of the flexural stiffness of a cartilage-PDS graft. Flexural stiffness is a measure of resistance to bending and is inversely related to the amount of deformation a structure may experience wh...

Staphylococcus epidermidis is the most frequent cause of peritonitis complicating continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis. We studied factors that might influence the growth of S. epidermidis in commercially available peritoneal dialysis solution (PDS). Test strains were inoculated into PDS and incubated overnight at 37°C. Samples were removed at appropriate intervals, bacterial counts were p...

An outcome of overloading of the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) folding machinery is a perturbation in ER function and the formation of intracellular aggregates. The latter is a key pathogenic factor in numerous diseases known as ER storage diseases. Here, we report that heterologous overexpression of the green fluorescent protein-tagged iodide transporter pendrin (GFP-PDS) perturbs folding and deg...

BACKGROUND Pyridoxine-dependent seizures (PDS) is a rare, autosomal recessively inherited disorder. Recently alpha-aminoadipic semialdehyde (alpha-AASA) dehydrogenase deficiency was identified as a major cause of PDS, which causes accumulation of both alpha-AASA and pipecolic acid (PA) in body fluids. METHODS We studied urinary and plasma alpha-AASA and PA levels in 12 Dutch clinically diagno...

Post-discharge surveillance (PDS) for surgical site infections (SSIs) normally lasts 30 days, or one year after implant surgery, causing delayed feedback to healthcare professionals. We investigated the effect of shortened PDS durations on SSI incidence to determine whether shorter PDS durations are justified. We also studied the impact of two national PDS methods (those mandatory since 2009 (‘...

assesment of health related quality of life (hrql) is increasingly recognized as an important part of the patient care in asthma. we aimed to evaluate the effect of personality disorders (pds) on hrql and the severity of disease in asthmatic patients. ninety seven consecutive patients with asthma and ninety healthy controls were included. all  patients  completed  a  short  form-36  health  sur...

The dimensional view of personality disorders (PDs) represents these conditions as extreme variants of normal personality continua. This widely held view underpins efforts to characterize PDs in terms of established systems of personality description and to overhaul classification of PDs along dimensional lines. A review of 21 taxometric studies of PDs and related variables calls an unqualified...

We introduce a hierarchy of problems between the Dominating Set problem and the Power Dominating Set (PDS) problem called the l-round power dominating set (l-round PDS, for short) problem. For l = 1, this is the Dominating Set problem, and for l ≥ n − 1, this is the PDS problem; here n denotes the number of nodes in the input graph. In PDS the goal is to find a minimum size set of nodes S that ...