OBJECTIVE To review and complete meta-analysis of studies estimating standardised mortality ratios (SMRs) in bipolar affective disorder (BPAD) for all-cause and cause-specific mortalities. METHOD Cause-specific mortality was grouped into natural and unnatural causes. These subgroups were further divided into circulatory, respiratory, neoplastic and infectious causes, and suicide and other vio...

The US Air Force continues to assess the mortality of veterans of Operation Ranch Hand, the unit responsible for aerially spraying herbicides in Vietnam. The authors of this study found that the cumulative all-cause mortality experience of these veterans was not different from that expected (standardized mortality ratio (SMR) = 1.0). Overall, cause-specific mortality did not differ from that ex...

Research utilizing sensorimotor rhythm (SMR) biofeedback with epileptics suggests that it is useful in decreasing seizures. Subjects were 6 young adults with a diagnosis of epilepsy of at least two years who had been unable to control their seizures with different regimens of anticonvulsant medications. Subjects ranged from severely mentally handicapped to above average functioning. Seizure typ...

Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) is a new technique for increasing areal data density in hard drives. Drivemanaged SMR (DM-SMR) drives employ a shingled translation layer to mask internal data management and support block interface to the host software. Two major challenges of designing an efficient shingled translation layer for DM-SMR drives are metadata overhead and garbage collection overh...

1. Neuronal activity resulting from stimulation by water waves occurs in ventral nerve cord-body wall preparations of the medicinal leech,Hirudo medicinalis. In segmental nerves, this activity consists of afferent compound action potentials with graded amplitudes resulting from simultaneous action potentials in many small sensory axons. Afferent input impinging on one segmental ganglion activat...

A retrospective cohort study of 14,457 workers at an aircraft maintenance facility was undertaken to evaluate mortality associated with exposures in their workplace. The purpose was to determine whether working with solvents, particularly trichloroethylene, posed any excess risk of mortality. The study group consisted of all civilian employees who worked for at least one year at Hill Air Force ...

In order to make up for the shortcomings of existing theory calculation methods circular diaphragm walls, an alternative method was developed with a clear concept based on cylindrical shell and superposition principle in elasticity named (CCSTCM). We took north anchorage foundation pit G3 Tongling Yangtze River Highway Railway Bridge as example calculated analyzed it by proposed CCSTCM, finite ...

In this study we investigated the effect of motivation on performance when using a BrainComputer Interface (BCI) based on sensorimotor rhythms (SMR). After pooling the data acquired with four different SMR-BCI protocols in one sample of N=41 participants, we found a positive correlation between the motivational components ”challenge” and ”incompetence fear” and accuracy in percent correct respo...

Reordering is one source of error in statistical machine translation (SMT). This paper extends the study of the statistical machine reordering (SMR) approach, which uses the powerful techniques of the SMT systems to solve reordering problems. Here, the novelties yield in: (1) using the SMR approach in a SMT phrase-based system, (2) adding a feature function in the SMR step, and (3) analyzing th...