BACKGROUND Previous predictions of population morbidity consider demographic changes only. To model future morbidity, however, changes in prevalences of risk factors should be considered. We calculated the number of incident cases of first myocardial infarction (MI) in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in 2017 considering the effects of demographic changes and trends in the prevalences of major ris...

Activation of the serine/threonine kinase Akt and the regulation of its activation are recognized as critical in controlling proliferative/survival signals via many hematopoietic receptors. In B lymphocytes, the B-cell receptor (BCR)-mediated activation of Akt is attenuated by co-cross-linking of BCR with the inhibitory receptor Fc gamma RIIB1, and the binding of the SH2 domain-containing inosi...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Interhospital transfer after use of intravenous tissue-type plasminogen activator (tPA) in acute stroke (drip and ship) is increasingly frequent. Small studies have suggested that drip and ship tPA is safe and increases rates of tPA use; however, little is known about real-world practice patterns. We sought to evaluate temporal trends in drip and ship tPA use and to compa...

Ship rats (Rattus rattus) were removed from sites on Pearl Island, southern Stewart Island, in 2004 and 2005, to test whether they excluded Pacific rats (R. exulans) or Norway rats (R. norvegicus) or both from podocarp-broadleaf forest. As predators can influence habitat use in rodents, Pearl Island was selected because no mammalian predators of rodents are present. Rats were trapped in two oth...

Maritime wireless communication is different from terrestrial wireless communication, due to difference of environments. Nevertheless technologies based on WiMAX (IEEE 802.16j) for ship to ship maritime communication promised to deliver high data rates over large distances and deliver multimedia services and are expected to use e-Navigation system. This paper focuses to simulate on IEEE 802.16j...

In the paper the problem of ship trajectory tracking with ε-accuracy is considered. A three-degrees-of-freedom ship model with full dynamic interaction between motions in roll, sway and yaw is assumed. The aim of the paper is to determine the robust control for ship trajectory tracking with ε-accuracy. Such control is obtained by means of a state feedback (called Tytus feedback) system characte...

This paper presents full scale test results and discusses the effectiveness of three different highly skewed propeller designs in reducing ship “ibrati on. The test results cover three merchant ship designs, including one OBO vessel and two RO/RO vessels, having installed horsepower rangj.ng from 24,000 to 37,000 SHP. Limited discussion is presented on the relative effectiveness of installing a...