Early age of assessment is the limitation of present study, and a much longer follow up might have been more informative. We would like to clarify that DQ of all VLBW infants was not above 90, it was the mean DQ of this group. A mean DQ below 85 was observed in 22% of infants. This finding along with difference of 6 point in mean DQ between two groups cannot be underestimated and warrants a lon...

BACKGROUND The etiology of de Quervain's tenosynovitis (dQ) has been based on conflicting small case series and cohort studies lacking methodological rigor. A prospective case-control study was conducted to analyze the most common risk factors for dQ. METHODS Between January 2003 and May 2011, 189 patients surgically treated for dQ vs. 198 patients with wrist ganglia (WG) (controls) were iden...

In the recent decade, the field of data and information quality (DQ) has grown into a research area that spans multiple disciplines. The motivation here is to help understand the core topics and themes that constitute this area and to determine how those topics and themes from DQ relate to business intelligence (BI). To do so, the authors present the results of a study which mines the abstracts...

(1) H MRS measurements of lactate are often confounded by overlapping lipid signals. Double-quantum (DQ) filtering eliminates lipid signals and permits single-shot measurements, which avoid subtraction artefacts in moving tissues. This study evaluated a single-voxel-localized DQ filtering method qualitatively and quantitatively for measuring lactate concentrations in the presence of lipid, usin...

BACKGROUND Anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) gene rearrangement analysis by fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) is one of the standard molecular tests for targeted therapy of lung adenocarcinoma. However, insufficient cell block cellularity may impede molecular testing. A recent study showed that Diff-Quik (DQ) stained cytology smear is suitable for ALK by FISH. AIMS The aim of our study...

Prior research has shown that supplying decision-makers with data quality (DQ) tags, metadata about the quality of data used in decision-making, can impact decision outcomes in certain circumstances. However, there is conflicting evidence as to how or when decision outcomes are affected. In order to improve experimental soundness, the current research addresses possible sources of ambiguity in ...

Donor-specific antibodies (DSA) in sera of sensitized transplant patients are often produced against the specific epitopes on mismatched HLA antigens. In this study, we selected sera from 30 kidney transplant patients with DSA and AMR to define DQ epitopes. Using adsorption and elution assays, we identified 18 antibody reaction patterns to define 6 new epitopes and to confirm 12 previously defi...

We examined the expression of HLA-DR and HLA-DQ antigens and mRNA from myeloid and lymphoid cells obtained from normal volunteers and established cell lines. Cytofluorometric analysis and immunoprecipitation were performed using murine monoclonal antibodies specific for HLA-DR (L-243) and HLA-DQ (Leu 10). The expression of mRNA for HLA-DR and HLA-DQ chains was determined by Northern blot and RN...

UNLABELLED Postpolio syndrome (PPS) is characterized by progressive muscle weakness due to former infection with poliomyelitis and can be associated with other symptoms such as cold intolerance (CI). Dăoyĭn Qìgōng (DQ) is a technique in Traditional Chinese Medicine that impacts the circulation of energy and blood. OBJECTIVE It was to verify the effects of DQ in PPS patients complaining of col...

Data is considered as fundamental asset for organizations, its strategic value leads to reconsider the importance of maintaining adequate levels of quality in data that is managed by applications. However, within the context of Web applications development, no mechanisms to adequately control Data Quality (DQ) requirements have been still proposed. This proposal is grounded on the idea of antic...