BACKGROUND AND AIM The aim of this study was to compare unstimulated whole saliva 25-hydroxycholecalciferol (25(OH)D) in menopausal women with and without oral dryness (OD) feeling, and evaluate the relationship between saliva 25(OH)D and severity of OD feeling. METHODS A case-control study was carried out on 70 selected menopausal women aged 41-77 years with or without OD feeling (35 as case...

Background. An exploratory subanalysis of the ODIN trial was performed to evaluate the efficacy of darunavir/ritonavir (DRV/r) 800/100 mg OD versus 600/100 mg BID in patients who were NNRTI-experienced but PI-naïve. Methods. ODIN was a phase III, 48-week study comparing DRV/r OD versus BID in 590 treatment-experienced patients with no DRV resistance-associated mutations (RAMs) at screening. Pat...

Visual deprivation is a classical tool to study the plasticity of visual cortical connections. After eyelid closure in young animals (monocular deprivation, MD), visual cortical neurons become dominated by the open eye, a phenomenon known as ocular dominance (OD) plasticity . It is commonly held that the molecular mediators of OD plasticity are cortically derived and that the retina is immune t...

PURPOSE We analyzed the effect of the changes of the optic disc area (ODA) caused by the axial length and the refractive error, and the consequent changes of the distance from the optic disc margin to the circular scan (OD-CS) of Optical coherence tomography (OCT) on the measurement of the retinal nerve fiber layer thickness(RNFLT) were examined. METHODS One hundred two eyes of 51 children (a...

Attribute-based encryption (ABE) is a promising encryption for fine-grained sharing of ciphertext based on users’ attributes. One drawback of ABE is that the encryption and decryption computational costs grow with the number of attributes and the complexity of the access policy. In scenarios where mobile devices are required, it will make encryption and decryption a possible bottleneck for thes...

U razdoblju od 13. svibnja do 9. srpnja 2005. g. izvršena su zaštitna arheološka istraživanja na lokalitetu Virovitica − Kiškorija jug, na trasi zapadne obilaznice grada Virovitice. Rekognosciranjem su ovdje uoËeni ulomci srednjovjekovne keramike, zbog Ëega se pristupilo zaštitnim istraživanjima. Tom je prilikom uoËeno da se na ovome mjestu nalazilo i rimsko selo. U tom rimskom selu odvijao se ...

This paper presents a new procedure for automatic extraction of the blood vessels and optic disk (OD) in fundus fluorescein angiogram (FFA). In order to extract blood vessel centerlines, the algorithm of vessel extraction starts with the analysis of directional images resulting from sub-bands of fast discrete curvelet transform (FDCT) in the similar directions and different scales. For this pur...

We propose a measure of quality for OD trip tables estimated from link counts. This measure, called the total demand scale is based only on the estimated OD trip table and on the assignment matrix used to estimate it. It is independent of the OD estimation method and of the technique used to overcome the underdetermination of the OD estimation problem. The total demand scale measures the intrin...

Let d be a square free positive integer and Od the ring of integers in Q( √ −d). The main result of this paper is to show that the groups PSL(2, Od) are subgroup separable on geometrically finite subgroups.