The implicit particle filter is applied to a stochastically forced shallow water model of nearshore flow, and found to produce reliable state estimates with tens of particles. The state vector of this model consists of a height anomaly and two horizontal velocity components at each point on a 1283 98 regular rectangular grid, making for a state dimension O(10). The particle filter was applied t...

BACKGROUND Serum bicarbonate is associated with mortality, heart failure (HF) and progression of renal failure in studies of healthy people and patients with chronic kidney disease, but the significance of these observations in unselected patients with diabetes in the general population is unknown. The aim of this study was to determine whether serum bicarbonate was associated with mortality an...

Recent studies with transfected COS-7 cells have shown that functionally inactive mutant V2 vasopressin receptors (occurring in patients with nephrogenic diabetes insipidus) can be functionally rescued by coexpression of a carboxy-terminal V2 receptor fragment (V2-tail) spanning the region where various mutations occur [Schöneberg, T., J. Yun, D. Wenkert, and J. Wess. 1996. EMBO (Eur. Mol. Biol...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Clinical inertia is considered a major barrier to better care. We assessed its prevalence, predictors and associations with the intermediate outcomes of diabetes care. MATERIALS AND METHODS Baseline and follow-up data of a Dutch randomized controlled trial on the implementation of a locally adapted guideline were used. The study involved 30 general practices and 1283 patie...

Both the continental or island origin of Hainan, and the Indo-Malaysian or East Asian affinity of its flora, are debatable. In this study, 196 families, 1283 genera and 3894 species of Hainan plants were recognized. Patterns of seed plant distribution were quantified at the generic and the family levels. The floras of Vietnam, and the adjacent Guangxi and Guangdong provinces of mainland China, ...

BACKGROUND Respiratory allergic symptoms impact on social life and school activities, influencing the patient's mood states. We evaluated the relationships between allergic respiratory diseases and depressive/anxious mood in a large sample of Italian middle school students, using the partial directed acyclic graph (P-DAG). METHODS We studied 1283 subjects aged 10-13. A health respiratory ques...

For those who have access to them, technologies of various sorts play a key role in maintaining connections between small and geographically dispersed settlements and to the wider World. For technologies to work in remote areas, there must be a framework of adaptability which ensures that users can adapt their practices to suit the new technology, technologies can be customised for local condit...

AIM To assess experience, knowledge, and opinions of Romanian general practitioners (GPs) on palliative health care in Romania. METHODS A questionnaire survey was performed among 1283 GPs in five districts of Romania in 2004. The data were collected on the GPs' self-assessed experience in, knowledge of, and opinion on palliative care, entered into a database, and analyzed. Th e GPs were also ...

The elliptic Monge-Ampère equation is a fully nonlinear partial differential equation which has been the focus of increasing attention from the scientific computing community [Tad12, FGN13]. Fast three dimensional solvers are needed, for example in medical image registration, [HZTA04, HRT10, HPM+09, HM07], but are not yet available. We build fast solvers for smooth solutions in three dimensions...

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