BACKGROUND Little is known about the natural course of frailty. We performed a prospective study to determine the transition rates between frailty states and to evaluate the effect of the preceding frailty state on subsequent frailty transitions. METHODS We studied 754 community-living persons, aged 70 years or older, who were nondisabled in 4 essential activities of daily living. Frailty, as...

A syndrome of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), adrenal hypoplasia, glycerol kinase deficiency, and mental retardation has been recognised. We report a further case ascertained from a history of DMD, severe mental retardation, and an Addison-like disorder. Cytogenetic analysis of the proband revealed an interstitial deletion of the short arm of the X chromosome. from Xp21.1 to Xp22.11, compris...

This paper introduces a technique to style and develop a completely pipelined and optimized design for Floating Point embedded processor in FPGA exploitation IEEE 754 format. The Floating purpose embedded processor performs many operations such as FP-Arithmetic, FP-Logical, FP-Trigonometric, FP-Vector, FP-Complex, FP-Signed, FP-Unsigned. In an exceedingly existing system, a fixed point illustra...

BACKGROUND Delayed intracerebral hemorrhage after ventriculoperitoneal (VP) shunt insertion is rare and has not been well investigated previously. Its characteristics is still unknown. OBJECTIVE We reported 12 patients with delayed intracerebral hemorrhage after VP shunt to investigate the potential risk factors and the outcome. RESULTS 12 patients (1.59%) of all the 754 hydrocephalus had d...

OBJECTIVE To estimate and report the incidence and perinatal significance of hypoglycemia during the 100-g oral glucose tolerance test in pregnant women. METHODS Over a 3-year period, we analyzed the incidence and perinatal outcome of pregnant women who experienced hypoglycemia, defined as a plasma glucose level of 50 mg/dL or less while undergoing the 100-g oral glucose tolerance test. The s...

The human carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) and HER-2/neu are potential target antigens for CTL specific immunotherapy for common malignancies such as breast, lung, colon, and gastric carcinomas. Several CTL epitopes restricted by HLA-A2, the most common human histocompatibility molecule, have been previously reported. However, to develop CTL-based immunotherapies for the general population, it is...

accelerators: VMX and DFU L. Eisen J. W. Ward III H.-W. Tast N. Mäding J. Leenstra S. M. Mueller C. Jacobi J. Preiss E. M. Schwarz S. R. Carlough The IBM POWER6e microprocessor core includes two accelerators for increasing performance of specific workloads. The vector multimedia extension (VMX) provides a vector acceleration of graphic and scientific workloads. It provides single instructions t...

The purpose of this study was to determine the publication rate and time to publication following abstract presentation at a major neurosurgical meeting, namely the 2005 annual meeting of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS). We reviewed all 754 abstracts presented at the 2005 CNS annual meeting to determine publication status and identify factors that are associated with publication. A ...

In this project we explore the capability and flexibility of FPGA solutions in a sense to accelerate scientific computing applications which require very high precision arithmetic, based on IEEE 754 standard 128-bit floating-point number representations. Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA) is increasingly being used to design high end computationally intense microprocessors capable of handlin...

IEEE 754r is the ongoing revision to the IEEE 754 floating point standard and a major enhancement to the standard is the addition of decimal format. Firstly, this paper proposes novel two transistor AND & OR gates. The proposed AND gate has no power supply, thus it can be referred as the Powerless AND gate. Similarly, the proposed two transistor OR gate has no ground and can be referred as Grou...