BACKGROUND normal ageing processes impact on oropharyngeal swallowing function placing older adults at risk of developing oropharyngeal dysphagia (OD). Anecdotal clinical experience has observed that older patients recovering from hip fracture surgery commonly develop OD post-operatively. OBJECTIVE to document the presence of OD following hip fracture surgery, and the factors associated with ...

OBJECTIVES The automotive industry represents the most important industrial sector in Czechia. The objective of this study has been to analyze the occurrence of occupational diseases (OD) in the automotive industry during the period from 2001 till 2014. MATERIAL AND METHODS Data on OD cases was retrieved from the National Registry of OD. Further, we conducted a survey in automotive companies ...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the odontogenic potential of undifferentiated pulp cells (OD-21 cell line) through chemical stimuli in vitro. Cells were divided into uninduced cells (OD-21), induced cells (OD-21 cultured in supplemented medium/OD-21+OM) and odontoblast-like cells (MDPC-23 cell line). After 3, 7, 10 and 14 days of culture, it was evaluated: proliferation and cell viability...

AIM We investigated the prevalence of the metabolic syndrome (MS) in hypertensive patients categorized according to the number of markers of organ damage (OD) in order to assess the value of a systematic search for cardiac and extra-cardiac OD in the MS setting. METHODS A total of 3119 untreated and treated essential hypertensives included in the Evaluation of Target Organ Damage in Hypertens...

the prime graph $gamma(g)$ of a group $g$ is a graph with vertex set $pi(g)$, the set of primes dividing the order of $g$, and two distinct vertices $p$ and $q$ are adjacent by an edge written $psim q$ if there is an element in $g$ of order $pq$. let $pi(g)={p_{1},p_{2},...,p_{k}}$. for $pinpi(g)$, set $deg(p):=|{q inpi(g)| psim q}|$, which is called the degree of $p$. we also set $d(g):...

The aim of the study is to investigate the association between olfactory dysfunction (OD), hearing loss, and dysphonia.The cross-sectional data for 17,984 adults who completed the Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (2010-12) were analyzed. OD, hearing loss, and dysphonia were assessed using self-reporting questionnaires. The association of OD with hearing loss and dysphonia...

We used an analysis of deuterium values (oD) of 151 Wood Thrush (Hylocichla mustelina (J.F. Gmelin, 1789)) feathers collected during the breeding season at the Piedmont National Wildlife Refuge in Georgia, USA, to determine fidelity to the study site. We compared oD values in feathers of birds with known molt locations and birds with unknown molt locations. Mean feather value of oD was -24.8%0 ...

Monocular deprivation (MD) during the critical period for the development of visual cortex causes a loss of binocular response of neurons and a shift to the open eye, a normal ocular dominance (OD) shift. However, when MD is combined with chronic inactivation of the visual cortex by muscimol, the OD distribution of the neurons shifts to the deprived eye (reverse OD shift). We have previously sh...

For a computer aided detection system of retinal lesions, optic disc (OD) detection is the first and the most importance. Since the OD is once detected then other clinical importance regions such as fovea or macula can easily be determined, and the OD shape is often used to evaluate abnormal retinal features for diagnosis of abnormalities such as hypertensive retinopathy. In this paper, an appr...

Optic Disc (OD) localization is an important pre-processing step that significantly simplifies subsequent segmentation of the OD and other retinal structures. Current OD localization techniques suffer from impractically-high computation times (few minutes/image). In this work, we present an ultrafast technique that requires less than a second to localize the OD. The technique is based on reduci...