Stress urinary incontinence (SUI) is the involuntary release of urine during sudden increases in abdominal pressures. SUI is common in women after vaginal delivery or pelvic trauma and may alter the biomechanical properties of the urethra. Thus we hypothesize that injury due to vaginal distension (VD) decreases urethral basal tone and passive stiffness. This study aimed to assess the biomechani...

BACKGROUND Vascular dementia (VD) is the most frequent psychiatric complication of stroke, and is often difficult to treat. Incidence rate of vascular cognition impairment is still 70% after stroke in one year (Sui R et al.2011). Stroke patients with VD suffer from a higher mortality rate and have worse functional outcomes and quality of life. However, despite the extensive literatures on this ...

Background: The field of parathyroidectomy (PTx) is complex and brings together many specialists. Even if the surgical approaches changed from classical to minimally invasive PTx, a good outcome is correlated with an adequate localization before and during PTx, while blood assays, such as parathormone (PTH) or 25-hydroxyvitamin D, become useful additional markers. Aim. Specific aspects related ...

BACKGROUND Obesity induced low-grade chronic inflammation disrupts proper immune and metabolic function. Vitamin D deficiency increases inflammation, which is associated with cardiometabolic risk. This systematic review examines the association between oral vitamin D (VD) supplementation and circulating inflammatory biomarkers and glycemic outcomes from randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of ov...

OBJECTIVE To investigate whether systemic therapy with 1-alpha,25-dihydroxyvitamin D(3) (vitamin D(3) [hereinafter, VD(3)]) prevents tumor formation in a hamster buccal pouch model of carcinogenesis. DESIGN Randomized trial in which a known carcinogen, 7,12-dimethylbenz[a]anthracene (DMBA), was applied to the buccal pouch of 40 hamsters. Animals were randomized to receive systemic VD(3) or no...

Purpose To evaluate macular and peripapillary vessel perfusion density (VD) in glaucoma suspects (GS) and glaucoma patients; to correlate ganglion cell-inner plexiform layer (GCIPL) and retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) thicknesses with macular and peripapillary VD; and to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of the structural and vascular parameters. Methods A consecutive series of GS, glaucoma p...

In 2G mobile terminals, the VD consumes approximately one third of the power consumption of a baseband mobile transceiver. Thus, in 3G mobile systems, it is essential to reduce the power consumption of the VD. In this report the register exchange (RE) method, adopting a pointer concept, is used to implement the survivor memory unit (SMU) of the VD. For the implementation part, hardware implemen...

We can use the above derivations to rewrite the set Sd that contains all top k coordinates in the span of Vd as: Sd = {topk(c1 · v1 + . . .+ cd · vd) : c1, . . . , cd ∈ R} = {topk ± (v(φ)) : φ ∈ Φd−1} = {topk ± ((sinφ1) · v1 + (cosφ1 sinφ2) · v2 + . . .+ (cosφ1 cosφ2 . . . cosφd−1) · vd), φ ∈ Φd−1} Observe again that each element of v(φ) is a continuous spectral curve in the d− 1 auxiliary vari...

Hydrogen removal of H-supersaturated liquid steel produced in a hydrogen-rich environment an industrial vacuum degasser (VD) is simulated here using two-phase (argon–steel) Eulerian model. The dehydrogenation efficiency evaluated for series ladle plug layouts and argon-purging modes. Increasing the number from prototype double-plug to four or slightly prolonging degassing time triple-plug enabl...

Full expression of reflex cutaneous vasodilation (VD) is dependent on nitric oxide (NO) and is attenuated in older humans. NO may be decreased by an age-related increase in reactive oxygen species or a decrease in L-arginine availability via upregulated arginase. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of acute antioxidant supplementation alone and combined with arginase inhibitio...