Cellulose derivative resin (CDR) suspensions containing resin particles of cellulose nitrate (CDR(CN)), cellulose acetate (CDR(CA)), or cellulose triacetate (CDR(CTA)) were prepared as the sorbent for resin suspension injection (RSI) electrothermal atomic absorption spectrometry (ETAAS), in which fine resin particles holding a desired trace element were directly injected into the graphite tube ...

In vitro biomechanical analysis after cervical disc replacement (CDR) with a novel artificial disc prosthesis (mobile core) was conducted and compared with the intact model, simulated fusion, and CDR with a fixed-core prosthesis. The purpose of this experimental study was to analyze the biomechanical changes after CDR with a novel prosthesis and the differences between fixed- and mobile-core pr...

BACKGROUND To investigate large cup-to-disc ratios (CDR) in children and to determine the relationship between parental CDR and clinical characteristics associated with glaucoma. METHODS Two hundred thirty six children aged 6 to 12 years with CDR ≥ 0.6 were enrolled in this study. Subjects were classified into two groups based on parental CDR: disc suspect children with disc suspect (CDR ≥0.6...

Anonymized mobile phone CDR allows us to capture dynamics of mass population movement where individual trajectories are still traceable. While, outcomes of research analyzing CDR merely show distribution of people or crowds, which are aggregation of mass trajectories without any attributes. To further investigate hidden properties of human mobility in CDR, it is critical to analyze such data in...

Understanding chemical-disease relations (CDR) from biomedical literature is important for biomedical research and chemical discovery. This paper uses a k-max pooling convolutional neural network (CNN) to exploit word sequences and dependency structures for CDR extraction. Furthermore, an effective weighted context method is proposed to capture semantic information of word sequences. Our system...

The divalent cation binding properties of a protein which functions as a Ca2+-dependent regulator (CDR) of brain cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterase and adenylate cyclase activities have been examined by equilibrium dialysis and circular dichroic spectrophotometry. The far-ultraviolet circular dichroic spectrum is characterized by negative maxima at 207 and 222 nm. Changes in the far-ultraviole...

BACKGROUND The Clinical Dementia Rating Scale Sum of Boxes (CDR-SOB) score is commonly used, although the utility regarding this score in staging dementia severity is not well established. OBJECTIVE To investigate the effectiveness of CDR-SOB scores in staging dementia severity compared with the global CDR score. DESIGN Retrospective study. SETTING Texas Alzheimer's Research Consortium mi...

OBJECTIVE An evidence based clinical decision rule (CDR) was developed from a systematic review and epidemiological study to identify burns due to child maltreatment (abuse or neglect). Prior to an implementation evaluation, we aim to explore clinicians' views of the CDR, the likelihood that it would influence their management and factors regarding its acceptability. METHODS A semistructured ...

PURPOSE To evaluate and compare the observers' ability to measure simulations of cup/disc ratios (CDR) as concentric and non-concentric circles. METHODS In a prospective, random, and masked setting, 43 images representing the CDR spectrum from 0.2 to 0.9 for vertical and horizontal CDR measurements were developed and presented on a computer screen to 171 participants. RESULTS There were sat...

The DNA methylation inhibitor 5-aza-2'-deoxycytidine (5-Aza-CdR) has therapeutic value for the treatment of cancer. However, the mechanism by which 5-Aza-CdR induces antineoplastic activity is not clear. The efficacy of 5-Aza-CdR on the contribution of gene reactivation by demethylation and enzyme-DNA adduct formation is an important unresolved qu...