Persistent organic pollutants (POPs), including polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), are frequently detected in biota from Antarctica, whereas no data are available for their replacements, such as novel flame retardants (N-FRs). This study presented the occurrence of several N-FRs, PBDEs, and PCBs in tissue samples of an Antarctic rock cod (Trematomus ber...

This paper discusses techniques for combining non-functional requirements (NFRs) with functional requirements (FRs) in requirements analysis phases, based on aspect-oriented approach. In our approach, we elicit both types of requirements by using goal-oriented analysis method, and then we specify the relationships between the FRs and NFRs with a cross-cutting table because an elicited NFR can b...

Interictal fast oscillations between 100 and 500 Hz have been reported in signals recorded from implanted microelectrodes in epileptic patients and experimental rat models. Oscillations between 250 and 500 Hz, or fast ripples (FR), appeared related to the epileptic focus whereas ripples (80-200 Hz) were not. We report high-frequency oscillations recorded with intracranial macroelectrodes in sev...

OBJECTIVE Psoriasis is associated with an increased frequency of cardiovascular risk factors. Metabolic syndrome (MS) and the Framingham risk score (FRS) are two different algorithms for evaluating cardiovascular risk. They include different features: waist circumference measurement is included in the MS criteria, whereas smoking, age, and gender are questioned in FRS. This study aimed to evalu...

BACKGROUND Risk factors for persistence of food-related symptoms (FRS) and food allergy (FA) from early life to adolescence are incompletely understood. The aim of this study was to identify risk factors for FRS and FA in adolescence amongst children with FRS or FA in the first four years of life (early life). METHODS In children enrolled in a Swedish birth cohort and followed to 16 years (n ...

OBJECTIVE To determine women's responses to cervical interrogation by fluorescent and reflective spectroscopy (FRS). MATERIALS AND METHODS A convenience sample of women scheduled for a colposcopic examination was interrogated by a cervical FRS system. Thereafter, women completed a 24-item questionnaire that assessed their responses to the spectroscopic test. Likert-scale responses were compar...

Current guidelines recommend that coronary artery calcium (CAC) screening should only be used for intermediate risk groups (Framingham risk score [FRS] of 10%-20%). The CAC distributions and coronary artery disease (CAD) prevalence in various FRS strata were determined. The benefit to lower risk populations of CAC score-based screening was also assessed. In total, 1,854 participants (aged 40-79...

COVER ARTICLE Lee et al. A quartz nanopillar hemocytometer for high-yield separation and counting of CD4+ T lymphocytes FEATURE ARTICLE Virgili et al. Confocal ultrafast pump–probe spectroscopy: a new technique to explore nanoscale composites Series Editors: Harry Kroto FRS, Florida State University, USA Paul O’Brien Manchester University, UK Ralph Nuzzo University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaig...

The prevalence of Schneiderian first-rank symptoms (FRS) in 294 consecutive admissions to a research unit was evaluated with reference to their diagnostic distribution (SADS/RDC). Thirty-five of 58 patients with schizophrenia had FRS, as compared to nine of 190 patients with major depressive disorder. All patients with two or more FRS received a diagnosis of schizophrenia. In the absence of org...

Background: Conventionally, the Framingham Risk Score (FRS) was used as a tool to risk stratify individuals for cardiovascular (CV) events and death. More recently, the coronary artery calcium score (CACS) has been used as a complimentary method for the assessment of CV risk. This study’s objective is to quantify the magnitude of marked discordance (MD) between FRS and CACS. The subjects were f...