OBJECTIVE To determine factors at diagnosis, associated with radiographic damage at diagnosis and after one year, in patients with early rheumatoid arthritis (RA). METHODS New patients with early RA were followed up for one year. Possible prognostic factors were duration of complaints, morning stiffness, disease activity score (DAS28), functional status (Health Assessment Questionnaire (HAQ) ...

The calculation method of the Arithmetic Mean Deviation (Ra) is presented for rotational turning. necessary equations Ra are given beginning from equation cut surface theoretical profile, and we determine values in studied range technological parameters. Cutting experiments with these data were performed roughness machined surfaces measured. Then carried out a comparative analysis measured calc...

OBJECTIVE To report two patients with giant cell arteritis (GCA) who developed rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and to review the literature in terms of coexistence of RA, GCA, and polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR). METHODS We conducted a comprehensive review of the English literature from 1980 to 2015 to analyze data on the coexistence of GCA and RA. The PubMed, Web of Science, Proquest, and Ovid databa...

In this article we investigate two-level split-plot designs where the sub-plots consist of only two mirror image trials. Assuming third and higher order interactions negligible, we show that these designs divide the estimated effects into two orthogonal sub-spaces, separating sub-plot main effects and sub-plot by whole-plot interactions from the rest. Further we show how to construct split-plot...

INTRODUCTION Studies investigating genetic risk factors for susceptibility to rheumatoid arthritis (RA) studied anti-citrullinated peptide antibody (CCP)-positive RA more frequently than anti-CCP-negative RA. One of the reasons for this is the perception that anti-CCP-negative RA may include patients that fulfilled criteria for RA but belong to a wide range of diagnoses. We aimed to evaluate th...

BACKGROUND Glucocorticoids have been known to be less effective for treating ankylosing spondylitis (AS) patients than for treating rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients. To elucidate the mechanisms underlying this phenomenon, we evaluated whether the glucocorticoid receptor (GR) beta expression of the peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) in patients with AS is increased compared with patien...

OBJECTIVE To portray experiences of women engaging in everyday tasks, activities, and occupations, from symptom onset to 12 months after diagnosis with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), and to explore the meanings attributed to their activities and occupations. METHODS A secondary analysis of qualitative data, guided by phenomenography, explored the stories of 37 women with early RA. The original st...

Introduction: Methamphetamine (MA) acts as a powerful oxidant agent, while Rosmarinic Acid (RA) is an effective herbal antioxidant. Oxidative stress-mediated by MA results in apoptosis, and caspase-3 is one of the critical enzymes in the apoptosis process. MA can epigenetically alter gene regulation. In this paper, to investigate the effects of RA on MA-mediated oxidative stress, changes in the...

Video summarisation techniques aim to abstract the most significant content from a video stream. This is typically achieved by processing low-level image, audio and text features which are still quite disparate from the high-level semantics that end users identify with (the ‘semantic gap’). Physiological responses are potentially rich indicators of memorable or emotionally engaging video conten...