OBJECTIVE We sought to determine the clinical phenotype of adolescent/adult patients with cystic fibrosis, according to heterozygosity or homozygosity for cystic fibrosis transmembrane regulator (CFTR) deltaF508 mutation, and to analyze their characteristics according to glucose tolerance status. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS A total of 76 cystic fibrosis patients with CFTR deltaF508 mutation (...

We present an undecidability result for the verification of security protocols. Since the perfect cryptography assumption is unrealistic for cryptographic primitives with visible algebraic properties, several recent works relax this assumption, allowing the intruder to exploit these properties. We are interested in the Abelian groups theory in combination with the homomorphism axiom. We show th...

This prospective study evaluated the effectiveness of autogenous fresh demineralized tooth block (Auto-FDT block) with platelet-rich plasma (PRP) for maxillary sinus augmentation with simultaneous implant installation. Auto-FDT block with PRP was used in Group 1 (n = 15) and combined graft (allograft and xenograft) powder with PRP was used in Group 2 (n = 15). For up to 2 years after the final ...

The distributed project scheduling problem is a distributed resource allocation problem extended with temporal constraints. Herein a project consists of a series of activities, the scarce resources are assigned to those activities at certain time windows such that all the activities are performed and certain objectives are optimized. In the past, methods from Operations Research (OR) and Artifi...

1 Conservation Science Department, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Burgring 5, A-1010 Vienna, Austria 2 Atomic Institute (ATI), Vienna University of Technology, Stadionallee 2, A-1020 Vienna, Austria 3 Agency’s Laboratories Seibersdorf, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Reaktorstrasse 1, A-2444 Seibersdorf, Austria 4 Faculty of Physics and Applied Computer Science, AGH University of Science ...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the association between smoking status and the outcomes of transcrestal sinus floor elevation (tSFE) performed with a minimally invasive technique (Smart Lift). METHODS Forty-five implants were placed in 25 non-smoker (NS) and 20 smoker (S) patients in conjunction with the tSFE procedure. In all cases, an additional graft, chosen among different hydroxyapatite-based or ...

We establish essentially optimal bounds on the complexity of initial-value problems in the randomized and quantum settings. We define for this purpose a sequence of new algorithms, whose error/cost properties improve from step to step. This leads to new upper complexity bounds, which differ from known lower bounds only by an arbitrarily small positive parameter in the exponent, and a logarithmi...

A. Kmita, AGH University of Science and Technology, Academic Centre for Materials and Nanotechnology, Krakow, Poland. J. Zych, M. Holtzer, J. Mocek, AGH University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Foundry Engineering, Krakow, Poland. S. Piasny, Engineering Enterprise HARDKOP, Trzebinia, Poland. The aim of the investigations was the development of the protective coating and the method of it...

Background & Aims of the Study: Due to the increased human activities around the Agh Gel wetland, this study aimed to measured accumulations of heavy metals (Ni, Pb and Zn) in the surface sediment samples taken from this wetland. Materials & Methods: Samples were taken from 10 stations and exposed to bulk digestion and chemical partitioning. Finally, Ni, Pb and Zn conce...